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Monitor articles for December 22, 2011
- Afghanistan: Kabul neighborhood struggles to regroup after bombing
- If Venezuela joins the Mercosur economic bloc, will it follow the rules?
- Chile's voter registration reform gives major boost to democracy
- Veracruz police disbanded: many in Mexico won't notice
- Flying too close to the sun: German solar companies fall on hard times
- Christmas craze fills Chinese malls, if not its churches
- Kim Jong-un's ascension offers window to ease North-South tensions
- A wartime bomber part becomes a memorable Christmas gift
- The Best American Poetry 2011
- Top 10 sports biographies I wish somebody would write
- War Horse: movie review
- 'We Bought a Zoo' starring Matt Damon: movie review (VIDEO)
- X Factor winner? Simon Cowell votes for Melanie Amaro
- Atomic refrigerator could make coldest things possible even colder
- Kindle Fire update, live today, should improve performance
- RIM stock climbs on whispers of a takeover
- Smallest-ever exoplanets found, one step closer to Earth-twin
- Earth-like planets: How will we know if they can sustain life? (VIDEO)
- Songs that sparked a passion
- Origins of America's favorite Christmas carols
- Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' trailer recalls 'Alien'-style sci fi horror (Video)
- Another kind of Yule log: Pork roast roulade
- Fresh green bean casserole
- Democrats turn tables on GOP as Boehner relents on payroll-tax deal
- Ron Paul: why racist newsletter flap could hurt him in Iowa
- Wait, did the Fed bail out a bank last week?
- Payroll tax bill: Impasse angers workers who could lose $20 a week or more
- Record low mortgage rates drop even lower
- Retirement planning: Would a photo help you save?
- Tech stocks fall on weak Oracle earnings
- Enfamil recall: Wal-Mart pulls formula after death of newborn
- Stocks climb on encouraging signs in economy
- At the retail store, a long line of questions at checkout
- Outlook for gold prices is bullish in 2012
- For tiny Burundi, big returns in sending peacekeepers to Somalia
- UN official: Flooded Philippines region looks as if hit by tsunami
- Kim Jong-il: Legendary golfer and mythical powers even in death
- US airstrike on Pakistani troops: Both sides to blame, says Pentagon
- Iraq's Sunni-Shiite tensions have long been building
- Iraq's Maliki threatens, Sunnis grumble, and Baghdad goes boom
- Baghdad bomb ratchets up worries about slide into sectarian violence (video)
- Does Ron Paul candidacy have legs beyond Iowa?
- Rick Santorum, Iowa's Dark Horse candidate, gaining ground
- Why House Republicans are balking at payroll tax cut
- Snowbound Arizona student survived on two candy bars over 9 days
- Manning victim of overreaching military: Defense
- George Bailey vs. Steve Jobs (VIDEO)
- 5 standards for presidential leadership
- Gingrich rise and fall: A question of decency?
- Basement greenhouse: a labor of love for cheap winter veggies
- New payroll tax cut: Hard on the rich
- Turning a failed idea into a success
- 'The Hobbit' trailer: 5 signs that Peter Jackson is back to his best
- For Jews and Christians, a holiday 'season of rapprochement'
- Hearing to end today on possible court-martial for Bradley Manning
- Turkey and France in growing confrontation over French ‘genocide bill’
- Iraq war: Predictions made, and results
- Dear Escalator? Latest Kim Jong-il shrine is an escalator (video)
- Putin crony appointed to top Kremlin staff post
- Warby Parker may have a better 'buy one, give one' model
- The gift of grace
- Winter solstice: time to celebrate brighter days ahead
- For some making minimum wage, the new year holds modest promise
- Russia protests and other 2011 uprisings: A year of yearning for clean government
- Bradley Manning case signals US vulnerability to 'insider' cyberattack
- Missing ASU student found snowbound in vehicle after 10 days
- Is Sheriff Joe Arpaio using racial profiling to find illegal immigrants?
- Mitt Romney bus tour: second chance at first impression in New Hampshire
- Racist newsletters put Ron Paul on the defensive for first time