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Monitor articles for August 21, 2012
- Caracas: The most dangerous city in Latin America - or is it?
- Despite drones and blimps, rocket attacks in Afghanistan prove hard to stop
- Social media: Parents unconcerned by Facebook, Twitter
- FocusObama plan for high-speed rail, after hitting a bump, chugs forward again
- Kurds deny hand in Turkey car bombing
- Hologramlike performers hit the stage – and airport, and drugstore
- Best Buy second-quarter profit drops 90 percent, missing estimates
- FocusA lot riding on California dream of high-speed rail
- Apple vs. Samsung: Battle royale of smartphone behemoths
- How to make corn broth
- Shocker: Stocks defy expectations
- More telltale signs of cyber spying and cyber attacks arise in Middle East
- Diana Nyad ends Cuba-to-Florida swim short of goal
- Greed is (not) good. Here's a better capitalism.
- Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister and Western ally, dies
- Are economists useful anymore?
- OpinionWhy peace has a foothold in the Philippines
- Huge wildfire reaches edge of three Calif. towns
- Maryland freight train derailment claims two lives
- The Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2016
- How not to be an old fogy when face to face with Class of 2016
- Deadline intensifies pressure on Rep. Todd Akin after rape remarks
- A Christian Science PerspectiveIn (modest) praise of Barbie
- US Joint Chiefs of Staff's plane damaged in Afghanistan
- Stock futures nudged higher by possible ECB deal
- Will Todd Akin quit Senate race? The GOP wants to know
- 'The Office' will end after this year
- 'Hunger Games' passes 'Harry Potter' as bestselling Amazon series
- The fairy tale of British spending cuts
- Todd Akin and Republican abortion plank: bad timing?
- OpinionWhy Paul Ryan is no Ayn Rand on Social Security
- Romney/Ryan economic plan: Five reasons it's a disaster for America
- Moscow court responsible for sentencing Pussy Riot hacked
- Why Claire McCaskill wants Todd Akin to stay in Missouri race
- Where Todd Akin and Paul Ryan agree, and disagree, on abortion
- 9/11 hearings set to begin. Should Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be censored?
- Will getting married help or hurt your tax rate?
- Olympic medalist Alex Morgan to write young adult series
- Buy a share of a fresh, sustainable fish catch
- With death of Ethiopian leader Meles, US loses an anti-terror ally
- College students: high in self-confidence but low in basic work skills
- Bestselling books the week of 8/23/12, according to IndieBound*
- Curiosity Mars rover flexes its arm for the first time
- 'Paterno': 8 stories from the biography
- What's keeping Todd Akin in Senate race?
- Mars rover Curiosity wiggles wheels
- Poll: Akin's lead narrows against Democrat McCaskill
- Todd Akin ignores first deadline to drop out of Missouri race. Now what?
- Mirrors completed for successor to Hubble telescope
- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity gears up for test drive
- Mars rover ramps up for its first test drive
- BP recalls gas in Indiana. You can recall gas?
- Kindergarten teacher: August dreams, the best laid lesson plans
- House hunting: Know the budget before you start
- Syrian minister warns US against intervention after chemical weapons remarks
- Nigerian government enters talks with Boko Haram
- Long cherished, the shorter workweek loses ground in Europe
- Astronomers spot humongous star devouring planet
- Arctic ice to reach record lows, say scientists
- Teachers buying lots of Ayn Rand for the classroom
- Microsoft opens registration for Windows 8
- Helping a neighbor: When is it too much?
- The Fight For Home
- Reader recommendation: The World America Made
- Will Arizona-inspired illegal immigration laws run afoul of Constitution?
- The Monitor's ViewThe 'light' touch to curb urban killing
- Blue whales, whale watchers flocking to California coast
- Barnes & Noble will begin selling its Nook e-reader in the UK this fall
- Tropical storm a-brewing, headed for Haiti, Cuba ... Tampa?
- Remember Afghanistan? The war makes rare appearance in Obama-Romney race.
- Diner en Blanc comes to Boston, New York
- Michael J. Fox will head to NBC for his new show
- Canada money controversy: Bank apologizes for 'racist' dollar bill
- Why is Hank Williams Jr. upping his anti-Obama rhetoric?
- Anonymous attacks UK government websites to protest Assange-case