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Monitor articles for August 27, 2013
- RIP Neil Armstrong: Memorial marks one-year anniversary of his death
- Gay marriage expands across New Mexico
- Miley Cyrus, twerking, and the 'sexual hazing' of American pop stars
- How a springtime primary in bright-red Georgia could tip power in US Senate
- Stocks sink on mounting tensions with Syria
- Facebook to pay 614,000 users $15 each over privacy concerns
- Reader recommendation: This Is the Day
- African serval cat: Neighbors shot hybrid cat and left it in trash bin
- Egypt crisis unnerves energy investors
- US destroyers near Syria. Oil market likely to shrug off a strike.
- A class of none: Students go 0 for 25,000 on University of Liberia entrance exam
- Four thousand Cuban doctors to work in Brazil
- Australia backs action against Syria, with or without UN approval
- New York Times hacked, Syrian Electronic Army takes credit
- 'Into the Wild'-inspired teen found dead in Oregon
- French Fry Burger? See who's selling fries on a burger for a buck.
- Officials discount risk to drinking water from Rim Fire near Yosemite, so far
- Strike on Syria: Could it undermine efforts to end the civil war?
- How tiny plankton could give global warming a significant boost
- How Washington uses budget wars to duck hard choices
- 5 things you may not know about rainbows
- Ogallala aquifer: Could critical water source run dry?
- Plan to close Vermont Yankee marks latest blow to nuclear power
- Iraqis warily watch US move Syria into crosshairs
- McDonald's wings go national. Can chicken market handle it?
- March on Washington anniversary to bring together three US presidents
- Bacon spoon bread and tomato-bacon jam
- A new way to finance education: Pay part of what you earn
- Global ViewpointAmerica is not the world's policeman – in Syria or Iraq
- Dog fighting ring bust: 360 pit bulls rescued, dozen suspects arrested
- Worried about economic collapse and your retirement? Stop.
- US Open: Venus and Serena Williams offer some déjà vu
- Alternative minimum tax (AMT): Will you have to pay this year?
- Kerry says there must be 'accountability' for Syria
- George Zimmerman to ask Florida to pay legal bills
- A Christian Science PerspectivePrayers for Egypt and Syria
- Russia warns US not to attack Syria
- Tesla outsells Porsche, Buick, Lincoln, others in California
- Conservative group to McConnell: Defund Obamacare or you're fired
- Twerking: Would you want to see Mom bust a move, Miley Cyrus-style?
- Badger cull in Britain sparks protest
- Verbal EnergyMind the lexical gap, and the cranberry morpheme
- Paula Patton's 'Baggage Claim,' 'Ender's Game' – what will succeed at the box office this fall?
- Dog fighting ring busted: 367 pit bulls rescued
- Microsoft goes after Google over smart phone and Internet tech patents
- Underage tobacco sales bottom out
- Celine Dion is selling $100 million in mansions. In the market?
- OpinionHow US can use aid to nudge Egypt
- 11 who leaked to news media ... and faced espionage charges
- 'Squeaky' Fromme assassination attempt recalled by President Ford in video
- Larry Summers may be named Fed chief soon, source says
- Environmental group wants to name hurricanes for global warming 'deniers'
- Shanghai commuters now have access to a subway lending library
- Taiwanese career women postpone motherhood by freezing eggs
- The 10 safest cars of 2013
- Global ViewpointUS strike on Syria would be illegal 'act of war'
- Russia warns US of 'catastrophic consequences' of Syria intervention
- Brazil's foreign minister helps Bolivian politician flee, then resigns
- Apple said to be prepping new trade-in program on eve of iPhone 5S launch
- 2014 Toyota Corolla to start at $17,610
- Asia pivot: US to sell attack helicopters to Indonesia in $500 million deal
- Destroyers approach Syria: What might a US strike look like?
- Baby shower etiquette: Hint, it's not about the gifts
- Anonymous New Jersey wreck identified as pre-Civil War ship
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and the danger of the misquote
- With 19 seconds before blastoff, Japan cancels rocket launch
- 'Unbroken' movie adaptation gains actors
- Victoria Duval pulls a huge upset at the US Open: What happened?
- Did the Saudis offer to pay Russia to back off on Syria?
- Colleges with the best value? New rankings upend conventional wisdom
- Does Obama need Congress to approve Syria strike?
- Wolf attack victim says attack came 'all of a sudden'
- US Treasury to hit debt limit by October. What if pols can't reach a deal?
- Pakistani madrasa denies US terror label, shrugs at sanctions
- Windows 8.1: Signed, sealed, but not yet delivered
- Have scientists discovered a new element?
- How the Light Gets In
- Bestselling books the week of 8/29/13, according to IndieBound*
- The Monitor's ViewWhat Obama must tell Americans about a US strike on Syria
- Phoenix haboob: massive dust storm rolls into Arizona
- Japan scrubs rocket launch moments before liftoff
- European hunter-gatherers domesticated pigs earlier than thought
- Another fallout of Syrian war: Disregarding injustices elsewhere?