The Ritz Carlton mentors 7th and 8th graders in their Succeed Through Service campaign to help prepare young students with necessary life skills while engaging them in service-learning and career exploration.

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And most recently, during Martin Luther King, Jr. day, which is known as a national day of service, PwC employees spent the day giving back from teaching financial literacy modules in schools to hosting career exploration programs for youth organizations.

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"It's a little frightening to think that a 17- or 18-year-old should be committed to a career path and somehow forgo that two-year exploration, " Andrea Hershatter, director of the undergraduate program at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, told Business Week.

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Meanwhile, George W. Bush , a man who has spent his career in the most unpredictable industries imaginable, oil exploration and baseball, suddenly becomes the advocate of the cut-and-dried machine solution to a complex and subtle problem well beyond the tolerances of the machines in use.

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