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Melchiono says he believes that the program's effort to address more than just physical needs is at the root of its success...
...medical van is just one service provided by Bridge Over Troubled Waters, a Boston-based organization established in 1970 to serve runaways and homeless youths. While the program targets people ages 14 through 25, the van does not turn away older people who need medical care...
Today, the van is staffed solely by volunteers like Melchiono, who says he heard about the program 17 years ago and fell in love with it. He ran the medical van during the '80s and has been volunteering his time in addition to his regular job as a nurse practitioner with Children's Hospital in Boston ever since...
Schwartz, a government concentrator, said he became interested in the Truman Scholars program because of the foundation's commitment to public service...
...NASA isn't exactly thrilled by the privatization of Mir, because the project is still consuming valuable manpower and resources from the Russian space program, which is now in partnership with the U.S. to build a bigger orbiting space station. "The Russians are heavily committed to the International Space Station project, and the U.S. doesn't want them diverting scarce resources and manpower into keeping alive an orbiting derelict," says Kluger. "But that won't make much difference to Moscow, because Mir is an enormously emotional issue for Russia - it's the last surviving achievement of their once-great space...