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Monitor articles for October 12, 2012
- German foreign minister heads to Ankara to tamp down Turkey-Syria tensions
- Space shuttle Endeavour: A final 2 m.p.h. mission through Los Angeles
- Community groups offer inexpensive recreation
- Difference MakerRohini Nilekani pours her wealth into getting books to India's poorest children
- Top Picks: A Joni Mitchell biography, Jerry Seinfeld's web series, and more
- Biden, Ryan hold their own in tough vice presidential debate
- Good Reads: A lesson for democracy, lost and found on Google Earth, and the next Arab uprising
- Hot dog feud ends. Pair cleared of trying to rob 'M-A-S-H' eatery.
- MS-13 gang labeled transnational criminal group, a first for US street gang
- Coal state Dems diverge on Obama policies
- Shuttle X-ing: Endeavour spacecraft slowly winds through L.A.
- Chocolate peanut butter Rice Krispie treats
- Japanese carrier Softbank in talks to scoop up Sprint Nextel
- EU snags the Nobel Peace Prize. Now what?
- EU critics slam Nobel Peace Prize decision
- The Monitor's ViewWhy Europe needed the Nobel Peace Prize
- 'Vampire Diaries' premiere: Executive producer previews season 4
- 'Smashed' shows a realistic recovery, with revelation
- Why Tokyo Electric Power didn't act on safety issues before tsunami
- Survey: consumer sentiment on the rise
- Giant eyeball mystery: Softball-sized eyeball washes ashore in Fla.
- Zumba scandal: Will 'clients' in prostitution case be revealed?
- At meeting, Billy Graham pledges to do 'all he can' to help Romney win presidency
- 10 must-read books about higher education in America
- Bali bombings: 10 years later, progress and some bumps ahead
- The buyback epidemic
- Stocks fall in worst week since June
- Amazon: breaking even on popular Kindle sales
- Vice presidential debate: Did Paul Ryan want $300 million embassy security cut?
- 'Photographic Memory': The permanence and impermanence of what we choose to preserve
- Syrian airliner spat sours improving Turkish-Russian relations
- Abortion debate heats up in Ireland as law revision looms
- In Benghazi, militias may promote security one day, threaten it the next
- Parenting young voters: There's still time in this election season
- Next episode of Homeland? No, just a college recruiter chasing Noah
- Soap operas put the spotlight on Brazil's new middle class
- Stewed chicken, family style
- Games for change: How digital fun is becoming a way to better the world
- US charter schools: Investment magnet for visa-needy foreigners?
- Syria
- Chicago schools chief out after run-ins with Mayor Rahm Emanuel
- How the fiscal cliff turns into a gentle 'fiscal hill'
- Joe Biden's smiling: Was there method to his madness?
- Childcare: It’s about costly necessity not 'having it all,' study suggests
- Pakistani police arrest suspects in schoolgirl shooting
- Alex Rodriguez benched: Will that help Yankees in decisive Game 5?
- Michael Vick: Dog owner again
- Ben Affleck crafts a nail-biting thriller in 'Argo': movie review
- Apple iPad Mini slated for October unveiling: report
- With Turkey-Syria escalation, worries grow about a tip into war
- MS-13 gang: Why US Treasury is after the gang's assets
- Reader recommendation: Barack Obama
- Sarah Palin says she will release a book on fitness and proper diet
- Pentagon's Plan X: how it could change cyberwarfare
- Mars rover finds surprising rock, nuzzles it and shoots it with lasers
- OpinionPaul Ryan and Joe Biden vice presidential debate was good TV and good politics
- Laughing Biden vs. polite Ryan: Who won?
- Romney plan: Rich to pay same share of taxes? Or $230,000 less?
- JPMorgan posts record earnings, lifting stocks
- A Christian Science PerspectiveWhat 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai is teaching the world
- Nobel laureate for literature Mo Yan urges China dissident Liu Xiaobo's freedom
- Security threat? China lashes out at US report on telecom firm Huawei
- Nobel Peace Prize: How unusual is the EU's award?
- The X Factor recap: The teens pull out all the stops