Munn, of New York City, was a ninth-grader at Hotchkiss when she joined a school-supervised trip to China during the summer of 2007, according to her lawsuit.

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When I had just finished my senior year in high school, I scored a summer internship at Viacom.

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But there are also a variety of other possibilities, such as allowing students to shadow you at work, offering summer internships, or even speaking to a school about what your career is like.

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Researcher Keith Chen at the Yale School of Organization and Management grabbed headlines last summer when he released a study showing that capuchin monkeys could be trained to use shiny metal disks just like human money.

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School pupils in Clackmannanshire could be set to have their summer holidays at a different time.

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At this time, Kristin is working mostly during the summer and just a few days during the school year.

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Athletes at the professional, collegiate and high school levels train and work out every summer with a risk of dehydration.

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Law students usually spend a summer at the law firm they will eventually work at before their final year of law school.

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Vinny Dotoli: As we prepared for the start of the school year, we had a chance to interview a few students about their summer experiences at Yale, Vassar, and other renowned institutions.

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When teachers at the Brentwood summer school approached Eisner to say that Bonilla, whom Eisner had sent there, would be a great addition to the high school, Eisner agreed to pay for his tuition.

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