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Monitor articles for May 09, 2012
- Vidal Sassoon remembered for pioneering women's hairstyles
- Obama supports gay marriage: Historic switch carries risks
- The PTA arrives in Mexico's schools
- Global ViewpointHeed Balkan lessons for a fragmenting Syria and revise Kofi Annan plan
- Amazing photo shows 'swarm' of stars
- Saudi's Al Qaeda intelligence coup and the perils of too much disclosure
- Howard Carter, the original Indiana Jones
- 8 charged with negligence after calling off 2010 Chilean tsunami warning
- Israel's coalition government: Israeli and Arab media react
- Joran Van der Sloot to fight extradition to US
- What does Mitt Romney's new ad say about his strategy?
- Does a military solution for Somali piracy work?
- Warm water threatens vast Anatarctic ice shelf
- What's causing mass pelican and dolphin deaths in Peru?
- Israel's unity government: a bid to represent the majority
- Is Greece headed for do-over election?
- What is medicare 'double counting,' and why are budget experts fighting over it?
- After underwear plot, Saudi officials cite headway against AQAP
- Surprise: Martian sand dunes are speedy
- Rangers' Josh Hamilton joins select club with 4-homer game vs. Orioles
- Seeking Chen Guangcheng's freedom in China via 'Internet meme'
- Mortgage rates inch down to 3.91 percent
- Monitor BreakfastRichard Lugar 'took brunt' of voter anger, says GOP campaign chief
- Russian plane goes missing in Indonesia, dealing blow to aviation industry
- Working mom, stay-at-home mom: A debate that belittles motherhood
- Ginger vanilla pound cake with strawberry rhubarb sauce
- Ouch! Obama loses 41 percent of W.Va. primary vote to federal inmate.
- Light from alien 'super-earth' seen for first time
- Breivik trial turns more confrontational as Utøya witnesses begin testimony
- How a humongous garbage patch in the Pacific breeds new bugs
- World Bank unit, MasterCard Foundation boost crucial small loans in Africa
- Five parenting tips to put a stop to your child's whining
- Verbal EnergyMotorists are advised to seek alternatives
- How a solar flare could send us back to the Stone Age
- Food stamp use continues to rise
- How to actually get credit card rewards
- Did Ben Bradlee have lingering doubts about Watergate?
- Mother's Day: Parenting teenagers is like a personal action movie
- OpinionWhy Romney's choice for vice president could determine America's future
- Rick Santorum tells Jay Leno why Romney endorsement was 'buried'
- Who won 'The Voice'? Jermaine Paul, no longer a 'backup singer'
- Kayaking as learning: Navigating life's knowledge whitewater
- With European elections, is austerity in the US doomed?
- New Russian jet now missing over Indonesia
- Wisconsin recall: Why Democrats think Barrett can beat Walker this time
- Kenya joins the great African oil boom with latest discoveries
- Thank you, Gloria Steinem: Feminism, family, and the fourth wave
- Mother's Day report from a mom in Norway, the "best place" to be a mom
- Self-driving car: Google gets a license
- Gas prices are falling: why that might not really help Obama
- A Christian Science PerspectiveWells that never run dry
- UN envoy to Syria pins hopes for ending violence on observer mission
- US Postal Service will keep open rural routes
- Howard Carter: 6 of his first moments in the tomb of King Tut
- "Ten Most Wanted" fugitive claimed kidnapped girls were his daughters
- Credit card fraud case: $1.5 million. 38,000 people. On appeal.
- Obama backs gay marriage: What difference will that make?
- How Maurice Sendak’s ‘Wild Things’ moved children’s books toward realism
- Slain American's legacy continues in Nicaragua
- Mother's Day: 10 great books for Mom
- In Richard Lugar defeat, a tea party road map for revamping Washington?
- Hollande's victory: The world ponders a major shift
- Why North Carolina banned gay marriage
- Fighting continues between Sudan and South Sudan, as economies collapse
- OpinionTo help world's children reach fifth birthday, look to this Bangladesh program
- Searchers find wreckage of lost Russian plane in Indonesia
- Romney stays firm on opposition to gay marriage
- Google Doodle: Howard Carter and the pharaoh's curse
- Greek impasse deepens as talks fail
- Democrats try to put Scott Brown on defensive with new ethics charge
- The Monitor's ViewLaw of the Sea Treaty as a peace tool for US
- Stocks slide as doubts about Europe simmer
- Obama, North Carolina at odds on gay marriage: Will it cost him the state?
- Why Richard Lugar defeat scares tea party Republicans, too
- 'MOMumental': 5 stories about raising children
- 10 great summer cars
- Greek political disarray, worries about Spain push euro to three-month low