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Monitor articles for August 08, 2011
- What does Al Shabab's withdrawal from Somalia's capital mean?
- Obama administration establishes government board to prevent genocide
- US plans more aid for Somalia famine as Jill Biden visits refugee camp
- Will Afghanistan return to an era of warlord rule after NATO leaves?
- Concerns swirl over safety of 'uncontacted' Amazonian tribe
- Is violence in Mexico affecting foreign investment? No, say recent reports.
- Hugo Chavez's take on his revolution's successes and failures
- Why India could feel the global financial aftershocks this time
- Lobsang Sangay is sworn in as new prime minister of Tibetan exiles
- London riots strain police force. Have spending cuts played a role in unrest?
- European economic crisis: Why Italy is seen as too big to bail out
- World markets worried about containing Europe debt crisis
- Ukraine's trial of Yulia Tymoshenko backfires
- Wild parsnips: One of the most tenacious invasive plants
- Google Books scores a deal in France
- How far should books go to keep the kids entertained at the table?
- iPhone 5: iOS 5 beta version issued to developers.
- Meatless Monday: grilled peanut butter and jam sandwiches
- Windows Phone 7 market share slips: report
- An African Affair
- What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
- Why Wisconsin's recall election matters to the rest of America
- Is it un-American to celebrate the downgrade?
- Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of August 1, 2011
- Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of August 8, 2011
- There's still time for a debt fix 'do over'
- Public-school losses: private schools' gain
- Add S&P downgrade to a struggling economy, what do you get? Stocks in shock. [VIDEO]
- Medicare and health care: Where have they been in the budget debate?
- Dow skids 600, worst day since credit crisis
- Futures market tumbles after S&P downgrade of US
- Crude oil prices fall after S&P downgrades US debt
- Israeli pocketbook woes awaken a dormant protest spirit [VIDEO]
- Janet Siddall helps African families through 'Grandmothers to Grandmothers.'
- Obama tries to calm jittery investors
- Rating falls, markets plunge, critics rage. But tea party isn't blinking.
- Wang Meng: China's most decorated Olympic medalist expelled for brawl
- World markets respond to US credit downgrade
- Navy SEALs: Afghan helicopter crash investigation begins
- London riots prompt 160 arrests in weekend (VIDEO)
- Saudis condemn Syrian violence after bloody first week of Ramadan
- Iranian group's big-money push to get off US terrorist list
- Diana Nyad, at 61, swimming from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage
- Relief ahead for states from No Child Left Behind law, but with strings
- Medical marijuana: The Justice Department speaks – again
- Amazon's Top 10 fall books
- "The Help": 10 best moments
- S&P has no business downgrading US bond rating
- Double-dip recession? It would be for no good reason.
- Afghanistan helicopter crash: Why Army has used Chinook for half a century
- In Afghanistan war, Navy SEALs and special ops playing more central role
- Three deaths in one weekend puts Taser use by cops in crosshairs
- Appeals court allows US citizens' torture suit against Rumsfeld
- Pilgrims eat free at India's Golden Temple
- David Gessner offers a modest 'Green Manifesto'
- 'Architect Barbie' builds a dream home, but her profession needs a makeover
- Five reasons the S&P downgrade isn’t so bad – and one word of caution
- Africa: a continent to love
- Dow drops 1,147 points over three trading days. Is that a 'crash'?
- Next, Iowa straw poll: Why it matters to GOP presidential candidates
- Bad news for Obama in Gallup polls – even before stocks plummeted