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Monitor articles for August 14, 2013
- Tell your story! Enter our #CSMmyStory contest
- It's now officially a smart phone world, report shows
- Seeking martyrdom, Nidal Hasan raises little fuss in Fort Hood courtroom
- Are corruption-weary Spaniards nearing a tipping point?
- If the Israeli public were at the negotiating table, what would they support?
- Doctors Without Borders leaving Somalia after 20-plus years, frustrated
- Gulf oil spill: BP sues US government over federal contracts
- Bestselling books the week of 8/15/13, according to IndieBound*
- Danny DeVito's show 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' will poke fun at its Emmy snub
- Baby monitor hacked: So what?
- North Korea agrees to restart Kaesong Industrial Complex
- FocusIs your student 'competent'? A new education yardstick takes the measure.
- FocusA faster, cheaper way to go through college – and emerge 'competent'?
- Heidi Fleiss: From madam to marijuana farmer?
- A Christian Science PerspectiveHealthier living: will innovative technology lead the way?
- Tax reform: It's expensive. Can Congress pay for it?
- UPS plane crash near Birmingham, pilots killed
- Vermont sailing barge may be model for carbon-free shipping
- China heat wave: Beware of 'spontaneously' combusting trees and billboards
- Verbal EnergyCasting out the wicked 'which,' and all that
- Antarctica: How current ice melts follow past patterns
- Cisco layoffs: Uncertain demand drives job cuts
- WalMart shooting: Motive a mystery
- Bradley Manning: 'I’m sorry that my actions hurt the United States'
- Gmail users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy, says Google
- Body cams for N.Y.C. police as a check on 'stop and frisk': a good idea?
- Pentagon extends military spouse benefits to same-sex married couples
- Stocks fall on poor earnings from Macy's
- Back to school day coming too soon? Seven tips to extend your summer
- The Monitor's ViewCollege football: Let the big guys go
- Jesse Jackson Jr. and wife get prison terms. Will Chicago ever change?
- Mortgage rates, refinancing applications decline
- Ron Burgundy will write a memoir
- As military makes its move, forget about liberal democracy in Egypt
- What happened to Shackleton's sunken ship?
- Can Apple's iPhone 5S make fingerprint scanners cool?
- Is oil too dangerous to ship by rail?
- Explosion at Mumbai port sinks Indian submarine
- Boko Haram attacks Muslims and kids, puzzling everyone
- Moving? Consider the cost of living first.
- Real facts
- Tomato butter
- Where's Bo Xilai? Chinese wait – and wait – for scandal-laced trial to begin.
- Mary Decker Slaney: ESPN biopic on runner's bumpy career
- Violent breakup of pro-Morsi protest camp ends Cairo's tense calm
- Toyota: New, smaller sports cars on the way
- My son, my hero
- 'The Wizard of Oz' as ... a TV medical drama?
- 'Harry Potter' new covers will grace trade paperback versions as of Aug. 27
- OpinionGOP's anti-Obama stance hurts its shot at foreign policy comeback
- 'Downton Abbey' season 4 will include Paul Giamatti, new suitors for one 'Downton' daughter
- Typhoon Utor: Hong Kong hunkers down as deadly typhoon passes
- Menu on Mars could include sushi, borscht
- Wiggles will waggle on US tour with first female lead
- Old dog, new owner: Shelters encourage adoption of older dogs
- Baby Veronica custody case: Adoptive parents urge birth father to obey court
- Let Freedom Ring
- Reader recommendation: Zealot
- Cheap airfares? Stopping US Airways-American merger won't bring them back.
- Lenovo, Dell, and more: This week's best deals on laptops
- Coke aspartame: Coca-Cola defends sweetener in new ad
- Has Anthony Weiner peeved Hillary Clinton?
- Cairo erupts into violence as security crushes protest camp
- A massacre in Cairo and a failure of US diplomacy in Egypt
- Manning wants to be a 'better person,' he told court
- Egypt's violence fells cameraman and writers
- Egypt violence: US hardens its tone, but is criticized as too soft
- Want a 'Star Trek' tricorder? Your smart phone could be getting close.
- Kidnap victim Hannah Anderson's reported online chat raises alarms