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Monitor articles for December 17, 2010
- US official: Sudan's Abyei region unlikely to hold self-determination vote
- Mexico touts progress in drug war, but death toll rises to 30,197
- Deadly Chile prison fire puts heat on Latin America's crowded jails
- South Africa ups border security amid Christmas travel
- Australia signals harder line on asylum seekers following Christmas Island tragedy
- Yao Ming fans, China, and the NBA despair over hero's injury
- Japan's new defense policy reflects growing concern about China
- North Korea threats unlikely to dissuade South from planned military drill
- WikiLeaks cable accusing India of Kashmir abuses may rattle tense region
- In hills outside Paris, tapping vast oil reserve presents risk but promises profit
- Cynicism drives young Kurds away from government outreach, toward rebellion
- In Israel, a rabbi who argues that anti-Arab measures are un-Jewish
- Tools that gardeners would love to receive as gifts
- Reader recommendation: Cutting for Stone
- "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" made Mike Brown a lot of enemies
- Voltaire: A Life
- Top picks: PBS's 'The Calling,' Leonard Bernstein 60-CD set, Keith Urban's 'Get Closer,' and more
- 5 unusual gift ideas for booklovers
- Jeff Bridges stars in 'Tron: Legacy': movie review
- Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon star in 'How Do You Know': movie review
- $11 million Christmas tree may break Guinness World Record
- Amelia Earhart mystery solved? South Pacific bones may have answers.
- Roasted chili cumin chicken with pickled red onions
- Holiday gift ideas for your favorite foodie
- Free shipping day is a good deal. Is it great?
- When the solution to pollution IS dilution: Cigarette smoke and urban crowding
- Federal pay freeze? Here's the flip side.
- Iran's nuclear program: Is regime change the way to stop it?
- 99ers and the continual decline
- New 'bipartisan' tax deal: Reaganomics redux
- Johnny Depp and the new tax law
- BMW logo branded on eyelids: How did they do that? [video]
- Gold ATM: Why settle for cash? Withdraw gold.
- Grace Mugabe sues paper over WikiLeaks diamonds story
- Kate Middleton 'will be burdened' by comparisons to Diana, say royal watchers
- North Korea threatens retaliation for South Korean military drill
- WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange: Is the US pursuing him in secret?
- Julian Assange in the crosshairs: Is he being unfairly vilified?
- Asian carp: Midwest states welcome new US efforts -- but still want more
- Nexus S review roundup
- Facebook raked in $2 billion in 2010: report
- Obama's small step to slow the flow of assault weapons to Mexico
- Don't believe everything you hear about Iraq. There's progress.
- Why the Taliban gave me a Christmas tree
- Out with the old, in with the new: Figure out your biggest mistake
- Making It All Work – getting perspective at 50,000 feet: purpose and principles
- Fundraising pitch
- Should Wall Street get bonuses? No, say most Americans.
- For small business, 2010 is ending with a whimper
- LAPD releases Grim Sleeper photos showing possible victims
- Madoff victims to receive $7.2 billion from Jeffry Picower estate
- Bradley Manning in 'isolation'? US defends treatment of WikiLeaks suspect
- Bill Clinton's teenage years, told in soprano
- House passes bipartisan tax cut deal, first of Obama administration
- Deficit reduction: Why it may not be dead despite the costly tax cut deal
- With big spending bill's demise, is 'earmark' new dirty word on Hill?
- Top 10 senators seeking earmarks
- Tiger Woods soap opera tops AP sports story list. Does he deserve it?
- Celebrate 'enough-ness'
- BlackBerry maker RIM sees profit surge
- Obamacare's mandate to buy insurance: Is it an eat-your-broccoli sort of thing?
- TARP bailout cost to taxpayers expected to be lower, according to Geithner
- Neb. college tuition rates will remain low for illegal immigrants
- Collapse of the omnibus spending bill: rise of the 'tea party Congress'?
- DREAM act poised for Senate vote Saturday