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Monitor articles for October 18, 2017

• Podcast: The Christian Science Monitor Daily Podcast The Christian Science Monitor Daily – Wednesday, October 18, 2017
• 'Devotions' collects five decades of poetry by Mary Oliver
• A Christian Science PerspectiveWhat can counter hopelessness?
• First LookTrump rescinds support for bipartisan Senate health care deal
• First LookPresident Xi opens China's congress with wide-ranging speech
• First LookMerkel attempts to unite Germany through multi-party coalition
• First LookDespite potential trade sanctions, Kurds continue with exports
• The Monitor's ViewKneeling and shady dealing in sports
• Focus'Casting couch' or 'crime scene'? Hollywood's culture of sexual harassment
• Trump and the nuclear button: Does presidential authority need curbs?
• As drug war's toll grows in the Philippines, so does church's pushback
• First LookHawaii judge blocks travel ban for the third time
• As jobs, workers return to Spain and Portugal, so does a sense of self-worth
• Letter from Las Vegas: a first-timer's view of the gun range
• First LookHow Amazon's boom brought growing pains to Seattle
• The Monitor's View'People power' for rule of law in the Philippines