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Monitor articles for August 15, 1996

  • Nuclear Test Ban Talks Fizzle but Pact On Chemical Weapons May Win Nod
  • Letters
  • Can a Culture Built on Credit Tear Up Its Cards?
  • Shoppers' Guide to GOP Patriotic Paraphernalia
  • Staying on Track on Those Tricky Trails
  • Brits Catch Welfare Cheats On a Disputed 'Snitch Line'
  • Debtors Clearinghouse
  • A Durable 'Bamboo Network'
  • Citizens Step In to Solve Strife Between Nations
  • Getting That Power Job By a Matter of Degrees
  • Scientists Provide New Tools For Policing Nuclear Test Ban
  • Why a Merger Wave Zaps Electric Utilities
  • Bestselling Fiction
  • Work of 'Twister' Sculptor Takes Off
  • Hootie & the Blowfish: Not Just a Band for Kids
  • God's Power: The Only Power
  • Why US Backhoes Will Fill In a Canal To Unleash a River
  • Polar Bear Cub Steals the Show In Family Adventure 'Alaska'
  • How Dole's Life Shapes His Views of Government
  • The Long Walk in Search Of Shoe Satisfaction
  • States Scramble to Make Deregulation Work
  • News In Brief
  • Practical Ways to Rid Your Garden of Zucchini
  • Serbs Seek Sovereignty via Vote
  • Sixth Rock From Jupiter May Be Hospitable to Life
  • Top Non-Issue in San Diego: US Policy on Rest of World
  • Americans and Their Cars
  • From Squalor to Splendor, Arts District Rises in Big Easy
  • Blueberry Logic
  • Moderates on the Move
  • One City Hopes to Keep its Navy Base Afloat By Privatizing It
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