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Monitor articles for August 15, 2012
- Facebook shares down nearly 50 percent. Set for another fall?
- DREAMer policy on illegal immigrants goes live. Can it backfire on Obama?
- Toilet of the future? Runs on sun. Wins prize.
- A Christian Science PerspectiveJournalists' role in truth-telling
- Wells Fargo settlement for risky investments: $6.6 million
- Verbal EnergyLetters that simply intrude into our words
- Mobile pay: Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy jump on board phone payments
- Winner of most 2012 Olympic defections: Cameroon
- Pennsylvania voter ID law: Key swing states tinker with Election 2012 rules
- Politics 101: Don't talk about offsets on the campaign trail
- Sept. 11 museum says steel cross, 'historical object,' should stay
- Why has this been the slowest economic recovery since WWII?
- Standard Chartered money-laundering deal: Did New York jump the gun?
- Two birthday cakes for Julia Child
- Why judge refused to block Pennsylvania voter ID law
- The Rise of Rome
- For young illegal immigrants, a day of hugs, smiles, joy ... and qualms
- Why Iran, more than Russia, may obstruct US goals in Syria
- Saudi Arabia and UAE urge citizens out of Lebanon after kidnappings
- Bumbo baby seats: unsafe at any height
- Is Israel trying to lead the US to war with Iran?
- Julia Child’s beef bourguignon
- OpinionBack to school – and new common standards?
- 8 steps to US energy security
- Resurrecting the Ryan budget
- UN: War crimes on both sides in Syria
- Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Idaho residents tormented by wildfires
- Why a galaxy far, far away has shattered records for birthing stars
- With relaxed rules for undocumented in the US, real work in Mexico begins
- Saudi plan to boost women's employment? Create a women-friendly city.
- Reader recommendation: Wild
- Atheism on the rise around the globe
- Rafael Nadal withdraws from US Open
- Are Romney and Ryan in sync on Medicare? It's a work in progress.
- China to protest Japan's arrest of activists on uninhabited island
- Free Syrian Army rejects claim that it bombed UN observers' Damascus hotel
- Retail sales buoy hopes for economy
- Julia Child was a spy. Was she any good at it?
- Riots test new French President Hollande
- Chelsea Clinton considering politics: A look back on all the presidents’ kin
- 'Preschool Gems': 25 funny quotes from preschoolers
- GOP veterans Tommy Thomspon and John Mica survive primary, but Fla. tea partier steals the show
- The Week the Women Went: More male image stereotype?
- GOP-backed voter ID law will stand in Pennsylvania
- Wildfire destroys about 70 homes in rural Washington
- New York man arrested, suspected of faking his own drowning as insurance scam
- Pa. drilling town agrees to settlement in fracking federal lawsuit
- Crème bruleed chocolate cake in honor of Julia Child
- Gen Y: the most book-loving generation alive?
- Security guard for conservative Family Research Council shot in DC
- Was Biden's 'back in chains' comment to black voters intentional?
- The other Paul Ryan plan: $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid
- Syria's civil war and the geopolitics overtaking it
- Nokia to shoulder past Apple with Windows Phone 8 debut: report
- Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: Should you get it over an iPad?
- Snow in August? It's steamy now, but forecasters see a big winter coming.
- Brazil targets corruption in 'trial of the century'
- Mitt Romney's illegal immigration problem: Would he reverse Obama's order?
- You can't win them all. And it's okay.
- Happy Birthday, Julia Child!
- 'The Price Is Right' searches for a male showcase model
- Records show troubled past of pediatrician accused of waterboarding stepdaughter
- The Monitor's ViewPut a light on Europe's shadow economy
- One kidnapping in Syria prompts kidnapping of 20-plus in Lebanon
- Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin lifts GOP hopes for US Senate takeover
- Romney: President Obama just trying to 'hang onto power'
- Julia Child's first recipe: shark repellent
- Steve Jobs' wallet, iPhones, iPads, and iPods taken in robbery
- When it comes to Medicare, which candidate's plan comes out on top?
- Is the Taliban wearing out its welcome in Afghanistan?
- Bret Easton Ellis faces flap over '50 Shades of Grey' comments
- Vapor cloud visible on security video could be to blame for Chevron refinery fire
- India's PM confirms $82 million Mars mission
- 'The Gift of Pets': 4 stories from a vet
- 10 US soldiers injured in lightning strike
- How much do we really know about the Zetas?