Word: summer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago? Is there any point to being the third country in space? Well, there's national pride, for one thing, and China can hardly reach superpower status if it doesn't have the accoutrements. And the Chinese military has, as Christopher Cox pointed out this summer, um, "taken an interest" in the military possibilities of satellite launches. But NASA execs worried about espionage can rest easy. Remember, the Chinese already have spaceship designs from the Russians...
...went to a meeting about it last fall," says Anne C. Durston '01, who worked for a family planning organization in Mexico City last summer. "The people who spoke there inspired me to look into finding an internship...
Ashley F. Waters '00, who used a Weissman grant to work on development issues in Udaipur, India last summer, says Harvard does not have many resources available to help students work abroad...
Anjali Chelliah '00, who worked to increase AIDS awareness in India last summer, points to the value of applying what she learned in Harvard classrooms...
Past interns say that once they were awarded the grant, they felt like part of a larger family of interns. The Weissmans help create this atmosphere by meeting with the group in the spring and fall, and corresponding with individual students over the summer. Paul Weissman says they were excited every morning to see if new e-mail messages had arrived from other parts of the world...