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Monitor articles for July 18, 2012
- The Monitor's ViewSyria on the brink of liberty?
- Electric car-charging stations: Will market forces cut prices?
- Astronomers discover oldest spiral galaxy in the universe
- Keystone XL pipeline: Nebraska officials get tough on TransCanada
- Why a grateful father helped raise $1.1 million to help veterans
- CommentaryTo each his own niche
- Libya's Goldilocks election: 'Neither Islamist, nor liberal'
- 450-year-old debt. Trillions owed. But will German village get repaid?
- Obama turns to 'master teachers' to improve US math scores
- An Olympic 'truce' on the tough streets of East London
- On Mandela's 94th birthday, some South Africans express ambivalence
- Got an appointment with Vladimir Putin? Better bring a book.
- AT&T's new shared data plan saves money, but not for everyone
- Chilled avocado and cucumber soup
- Ousted lesbian Boy Scout leader delivers petition
- FBI dive team may aid in search for missing Iowa girls
- 'Dark Knight': Angry comments section closed by Rotten Tomatoes
- Ron Paul vs. Ben Bernanke: final battle ends on surprising note
- Who's looking to hire? Top 10 hard-to-fill jobs hold surprising lessons.
- Kim Jong-un's 6 super-duper titles
- Syrian rebels' confidence grows after bombing hits Assad's inner circle
- 'Cyborg' allegedly attacked over camera implants
- Housing market rebound? New-home starts notch a post-2008 high.
- Some good news for the book business
- With military draft reform, Netanyahu learns he can't please everyone
- Armed with sticks, Colombia's Nasa tribe attacks a military base
- James Joyce: A New Biography
- Reader recommendation: Brave Companions
- Pioneer Anomaly solved: No need to rewrite physics just yet
- Alcohol and drugs: why parents should talk to their teenagers
- Bus full of Israeli youth explodes in Bulgaria, killing at least three
- On brink of 'financial cliff,' at least one analyst remains hopeful
- Child abuse tied to housing crisis? New study finds links
- Multi-telescope view two million times sharper than human eye reveals black hole
- NASA says Mars Odyssey orbiter will likely recover from glitch
- Disintegrating Greenland glacier photographed from space
- OpinionUS must kill and capture terrorist leaders as soon as possible. It works.
- 'Game of Thrones' and 'Hunger Games' inspire baby names
- Kim Jong-un gets another title in bid to show his importance
- Higher tax rates for small businesses may lead to fewer jobs
- Why Obama's 'you didn't build that' line may bite back
- 4 writers who stretch the limits of their craft
- Four steps to success in Afghanistan
- As Mayer joins Yahoo, enthusiasm runs high but earnings slip lower
- NASA hopes Mars rover landing will be 'grand and profound'
- Gigantic iceberg breaks away from glacier in north Greenland
- How to jump off the fiscal cliff into a tax cut
- Marissa Mayer: Yahoo's new CEO reignites working mother debate
- Google maps go off-road, in-doors, and to Antarctica
- Register to vote through Facebook? Washington reveals new app.
- As blast rattles Syrian regime, defecting general reemerges in France
- Yemen's power vacuum could provide window for secessionists
- What does it mean to be 'middle class?'
- Judge orders Tennessee county to allow new mosque to open
- A crisis veiled in public spectacle
- A Christian Science PerspectiveWhat did I forget to pack?
- As Syrian conflict intensifies, UN prepares to extend its mission
- Barack Obama: First president who fails to raise as much money as opponent?
- What will federal budget cuts mean for local economies?
- Congress will allow the military to continue sponsoring sports
- New invasive, swarming insect found in the US for the first time
- Justice Scalia says he and Roberts aren't feuding
- How GOP could be forced to raise taxes this December
- Massive bombing rocks Damascus: why it didn't break UN logjam on Syria
- Why are 12 million children singing to Nelson Mandela?
- Laszlo Csatary: Hungary arrests 97-year-old alleged Nazi war criminal
- Can Romney ride out the storm over his unreleased tax returns?
- Have archeologists located Mona Lisa's skeleton?
- 'Poetry of the Taliban' – will it find an audience in the US?
- 'Toy Story 4': Pixar's other sequels will come first
- Sharing local knowledge helps farmers succeed
- FocusChicago: A gang shooting, a stray bullet, an innocent victim
- Now, the northern supply line hit: 22 NATO trucks bombed
- Why Sheriff Joe Arpaio insists Obama birth certificate a fake
- In Foxconn's iPad factory, a window on Chinese hopes - and frustrations
- Custody battle: Panel to standardize rights for military parents
- Six-foot lizard on the loose: Hide your chihuahua
- FocusIn Chicago, heat and homicide stoke fear and frustration
- Top Picks: 'Reading Rainbow,' Ridley Pearson's The Risk Agent, and more
- Jump in housing starts, earnings send stocks up
- Bus bombing: Why in Bulgaria, and why look to Iran?
- Scientists find new alien planet, smaller and hotter than Earth
- Ron Paul vs. the Federal Reserve: four epic moments
- Families sue US for killing three citizens in Yemen drone strikes
- Where is Jesse Jackson Jr.? As absence lengthens, pressure mounts.
- Could dumping iron in the oceans slow global warming?
- Learning to love the leftovers
- Video shows highlights of SpaceX Dragon ISS docking