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Monitor articles for February 04, 2013
- Alabama standoff: week-long hostage ends, boy safe, kidnapper dead
- It's 'common sense' – or is it? The politics of Obama's new favorite phrase.
- Debt limit: Link any increase to spending cuts? Majority in poll says yes.
- How to 'reverse bribe' your child
- 'Cookie Monster' sends 2nd note about sculpture theft
- Fish McBites join nuggets, burgers in Happy Meal family
- Girl, 6, crashes car: Can laws make young drivers safer?
- Cybersecurity: how preemptive cyberwar is entering the nation's arsenal
- Richard III discovery spurs excitement, skepticism
- Gov. Cuomo's grand plan post-Sandy: give some of New York back to nature
- NASA's Curiosity ready to drill first Mars rock
- Rosa Parks honored with new stamp
- Super Bowl XLVII postscript: 49ers fall short of Ravens, final plays questioned
- Chuck Hagel: Filibuster in store for Obama nominee?
- Stock market dives after Dow hits 14,000
- Global warming vs. time: why some problems can't wait
- After a devastating market fire, Burundi's economy hobbles forward
- 22 killed in collision on UAE highway
- Carbon emissions in US drop to lowest level since 1994
- The Monitor's ViewNeed for textbook examples of peace in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Want to jailbreak your Apple iPhone 5? Here's how.
- Readers RespondReaders Write: Not too late to change US priorities in Afghanistan; Gun control advocates use flawed logic
- Ahmadinejad prepared to be Iran's first astronaut
- 'Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye': 5 stories from a family's time near the Arctic
- Iran's space monkey business: A plausible explanation?
- Malala Yousufzai issues first video statement since Taliban shooting
- Is car-sharing in your future?
- Afghanistan, Pakistan, and UK call Taliban to negotiating table
- 'Iron Man 3''s Super Bowl spot previews the hero's battle against the Mandarin
- Boy and Girl Scouts in Afghanistan?
- Karl Rove takes on the tea party. Is a GOP civil war looming?
- Girl, 6, crashes car driving cross-town to visit her dad
- Castro: Chávez's health is 'much better'
- 'Big heels to fill': What John Kerry signaled to State Dept. on his first day
- The real winner among Super Bowl ads? Twitter.
- Reader recommendation: The House at Tyneford
- In West Bank, a space for tutus and pirouettes
- Meatless Monday: Squash and black bean tostados
- Richard III's remains identified, but was he really Shakespeare's villain?
- Maurice Sendak's last work honors his brother
- Chris Kyle, ex-Navy SEAL sniper, died pursuing his passion
- Superdome power outage embarrassing for New Orleans
- Indian-American looks homeward to help the needy
- National income tax: a century of progressive taxes. More ahead?
- Alicia Keys national anthem rendition was the longest – and bankable
- Emily VanCamp cast in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'?
- French out of Timbuktu by end of week, airstrikes continue
- Anti, pro-gay groups converge on Boy Scouts of America headquarters
- Destiny's Child reunites during Super Bowl halftime show
- Israel implies it was behind last week's airstrike in Syria, but little else is clear
- Good Reads: Women in crime, democracy's era, digital mapping, a history in heels
- El Salvador's military to withdraw from 'peace zones'
- Why the IRS should tax equity fund profits as ordinary income
- Jackie Robinson: The baseball legend's legacy after baseball
- In need of a hit, BlackBerry touts BB10, Z10 in strange new Super Bowl ad
- OpinionCurbing gun violence after Newtown: Let's arm teachers
- How Literature Saved My Life
- Can India sweep up its 'soot' pollution challenge?
- Construction spending rises in December
- What caused power outage at Super Bowl: Is 'abnormality' the whole story?
- Bright spot in Palestinian economy: more women opening businesses
- Why is Obama in Minnesota to push gun control?
- Myanmar's graffiti artists test edges of emerging democracy
- Global Viewpoint'Soft' nationalism is good for China
- New hurdle for nuclear talks: Iran's presidential politics
- Johnny Depp to play Whitey Bulger in a new biopic
- Lino Oviedo, Paraguay presidential hopeful, dead in helicopter crash
- Super Bowl GoDaddy kiss commercial: How much did your kids squirm?
- Super Bowl commercials show creativity trumps special effects
- 19 killed in suicide bombing targeting government-linked Shiite militia
- What caused power outage at Super Bowl XLVII? 'Abnormality'
- 'Warm Bodies': Is it a funny zombie send-up or a comedy that never comes to life?
- A quiet envoy to the hermit kingdom of North Korea
- A Christian Science PerspectiveRenewal is always possible, in life or at work