News story titles that reflects dimensions and elements of the changing social and economic picture (CSEP)

Connections: Mental patterns

While scanning each of these article titles, try to identify the most general issue involved—thinking broad and thinking detailed. Following the article titles are some additional examples

• Tom Peters' takes on the mutual-fund revolution (Last Update: 7:17 PM ET Oct. 27, 2003)

• States not following feds in abolishing death taxes -- Clipped Tuesday, November 4, 2003 5:19 PM

• South, West Draw Young Single People -- Clipped Tuesday, November 4, 2003 5:32 PM

• Job Cuts More Than Double in Oct. -- Clipped Tuesday, November 4, 2003 5:33 PM

• Tyco to Cut 7,200 Jobs, Exit Businesses -- Clipped Tuesday, November 4, 2003 5:34 PM

• D.C. Area A Magnet For Bright Singles -- Clipped Tuesday, November 4, 2003 5:35 PM

• Lawmakers, Regulators Discuss Mutual-Fund Industry Reform -- Clipped Tuesday, November 4, 2003 6:05 PM

• Wal-Mart plans music download service -- Clipped Thursday, November 6, 2003 1:00 PM

• Brain Hard-Wired for Empathy -- Clipped Friday, November 7, 2003 9:38 AM

• Foreign-Born Population Surges in U.S. -- Clipped Friday, November 7, 2003 9:48 AM

• Today's Toddlers Act Like Teens? -- Clipped Friday, November 7, 2003 9:56 AM

• Nokia 7700 model cellphone with a large touch-screen display -- Clipped Friday, November 7, 2003 9:57 AM

• Got life? Successful retirement requires money, but won't be measured that way -- Clipped Friday, November 7, 2003 5:58 PM

• Ten most overpaid jobs in the U.S. -- Clipped Friday, November 7, 2003 6:14 PM

• Venture Capital Fund Raising Still Dismal -- Clipped Saturday, November 8, 2003 9:38 AM

• Rich Colleges Receiving Richest Share of U.S. Aid -- Clipped Saturday, November 8, 2003 6:58 PM

• Va. Tech Creates Third-Fastest Computer -- Clipped Sunday, November 9, 2003 2:01 PM

• Online Competition Hurts Adult Magazines -- Clipped Sunday, November 9, 2003 5:46 PM

• Motorola spinning off semiconductor business -- Clipped Monday, November 10, 2003 8:22 AM Baffling. Does anyone but me find Motorola's announcement that it will spin off its semiconductor business a bit peculiar? How does a company manage to create and pioneer early markets, dominate, and then give up on the market? I'm talking about radios, TVs, and microprocessors, including RISC chips. When will the company bail on the cell-phone market it largely created? This is a weird business model. My advice to Motorola is to change the name to Motorola Market Development Company. It would make more sense.

• Toyota outsells Ford worldwide -- Clipped Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:35 PM

• David Pogue: Customer Service Blues -- Clipped Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:09 PM

• Soros's Deep Pockets vs. Bush -- Clipped Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:10 PM

• Dictionary Editors to Keep 'McJob' -- Clipped Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:11 PM

• PluggedIn: TV Viewers Find TiVo Addictive -- Clipped Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:33 AM

• 'Grand Theft Auto' Makers Fight Lawsuit -- Clipped Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:51 PM

• Failed Pensions: A Painful Lesson in Assumptions -- Clipped Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:43 PM

• S&P Cuts Ford to Notch Above Junk -- Clipped Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:44 PM

• Realtors err in efforts to horde high commissions -- Clipped Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:45 PM

• South Attracts More People Than it Loses -- Clipped Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:35 AM

• Young, Single College Grads Still Mobile and Urban -- Clipped Thursday, November 13, 2003 6:38 AM

• No time for dating? You're not alone -- Clipped Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:29 PM

• Making consumers of patients Ratings of hospitals, doctors still works-in-progress -- Clipped Saturday, November 15, 2003 8:46 AM

• Health Industry Meets as Obesity Crisis Looms -- Clipped Sunday, November 16, 2003 7:18 PM

• Intellectual Pursuits Keep Middle-Aged Mind Sharp -- Clipped Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:08 PM

• High-Tech Jobs Dwindle by 12 Percent -- Clipped Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:56 PM

• China to Promote Own Alternative to DVDs -- Clipped Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:15 AM

• Hot Jobs for 2004 -- Clipped Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:25 AM 1. Sales 2. Financial Planners 3. Health Care 4. International Business 5. Compliance

• U.S. Relies on Foreign-Born Scientists -Report -- Clipped Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:05 PM

• Time to tackle Social Security repair -- Clipped Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:54 PM

• Dell tops Apple in R&D November 21 - 11:01 EST Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell recently said that his company's research and development (R&D) division is very comparable to that of Apple. In fact, Dell has more workers and spends more money than Apple in R&D, despite being known for rebranding products and using many OEM parts. "We have 3,600 folks in our R&D division and spend half a billion dollars a year, similar to the amount Apple spends," Dell said. "Just because we sell a whole lot more doesn't mean we're bad. I thought that was part of the objective." Apple says it currently has 2,500 employees working in R&D, and spent $471 million in R&D costs in fiscal 2003.

• 30-Yr Mortgage Rates Sink to 5.83 Percent -- Clipped Friday, November 21, 2003 12:32 PM

• Electronic nose may replicate dog's sniffing skill -- Clipped Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:25 AM

• Ukraine Marks Famine That Killed Millions -- Clipped Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:28 PM Sat Nov 22, 4:54 PM ET By ANNA MELNICHUK, Associated Press Writer KIEV, Ukraine - Increased international recognition of a forced famine that killed up to 10 million Ukrainians brought bittersweet relief Saturday to elderly survivors marking the 70th anniversary of a dark chapter in the history of Soviet communism.

• Clinton Releases List of Favorite Books -- Clipped Saturday, November 22, 2003 7:34 PM

• Technology Removes Need for Human Pilots -- Clipped Sunday, November 23, 2003 1:05 PM

• Wireless Sector Braces for Phone Number Moves -- Clipped Sunday, November 23, 2003 3:02 PM

• Tony Bennett's Art Of Friendship -- Clipped Sunday, November 23, 2003 5:42 PM

• America's Homes, Sweet (Mobile) Homes -- Clipped Sunday, November 23, 2003 7:12 PM

• iPod owners begin 'jack sharing' -- Clipped Monday, November 24, 2003 8:55 AM

• Spam Slayer: Ten Tips and Tricks -- Clipped Monday, November 24, 2003 11:49 AM

• Delta Chairman, CEO Mullin to Step Down -- Clipped Monday, November 24, 2003 9:02 PM

More articles: Bob Embry's Time-life navigation weblog (RSS feed available for convenient access) for current examples and an older collection of examples from the news in pdf format.

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I have a library of over ten thousand interesting articles (text format) that I've acquired mostly from the Internet. These are not just routine articles, but those that shed some light (direct attention) to some kind of strategic example.

This page may eventually be a table of contents for articles of major interest that can be explored.

There is are article of interest pages in a number of areas and levels (WORLD MOVING IN TIME is a higher level that Society), so you may need to visit several pages to find your desired area of exploration.

I intend to limit each page to a certain number of examples within an area.

You may find it useful is to mentally superimpose the article on terrain maps; the changing social and economic picture; and the structure of the economy or its equivalent in the social and public sectors. The articles can also be used with a intel map that connect the previous area of thought. Changes and time spans. Below are the "icons" for each of the tools mentioned earlier in this paragraph.