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Monitor articles for October 05, 2017

• What drove Saudi Arabia to lift driving ban? It's not all about women.
• Gun control: where glimmers of compromise may be appearing
• Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in Literature
• First LookISIS pushed out from one of the last strongholds in northern Iraq
• Meanwhile... book-loving Somalis defy the threats of terrorists
• Racial gaps in education: How much do voters care?
• The Monitor's ViewHere’s a seed of hope for storm-struck Puerto Rico
• A Christian Science PerspectiveThe power of prayer
• ISIS attacks Shiites, but Afghans resist push to make conflict religious
• Podcast: The Christian Science Monitor Daily Podcast The Christian Science Monitor Daily – Friday, October 6, 2017
• Progress WatchConservation success: Buoyed hopes for sea turtles
• Podcast: The Christian Science Monitor Daily Podcast The Christian Science Monitor Daily – Thursday, October 5, 2017
• First LookBurned landscapes turn Portugal toward forest management solutions
• First LookPutin hosts Saudi King, signaling development of an unlikely friendship
• First LookBrazil tackles political bribes with a campaign fund sourced by taxpayers
• First LookIs technology more distracting than helpful on the road? New study says, yes.
• 'A Bold and Dangerous Family' ably chronicles one Italian family's battle against Mussolini
• Remarkable 'The Florida Project' explores vagaries of childhood
• First LookBangladesh to clear space for Rohingya refugees in its forest