by Caitlin Kenney

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Seen in Oak Park, Ill.

Ashley sends a story about how email logs may provide advance warning of a crisis at a company. Two professors at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne studied messages sent by Enron employees during the year and a half before the company's collapse and found that as the situation worsened, the number of "email cliques" grew.

Daniel in Florida has been reading about the troubles at the U.S. Patent Office. Collections at the office have dropped from $6.9 million a day in January and February to $5.9 million a day last week, and employees are facing a massive backlog.

Meanwhile, Curtis from Minneapolis shares an essay that suggests more young grads may be shunning Wall Street.