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Monitor articles for August 20, 2013
- Hyperloop: Some caveats to Elon Musk's vision for future transport
- The Monitor's ViewScience for everyone
- Blue moon goes by many names
- 'Breaking Bad' brings Walt Whitman back to the forefront of pop culture
- Georgia school shooting: Suspect is in custody after reports of gunfire
- Addressing cyberbullying: Offering support may help more than taking control
- Minimum wage at $15 an hour: Would it help or hurt?
- Russia sends a bitter trade message to Ukraine – with chocolate
- Rare Swedish thingamabob to be returned to museum
- Chasing the 'Brazilian dream,' migrants strain the country's immigration laws
- How to have ‘the talk’ with your teen – about tanning beds and body image
- Blue moon: Five amazing facts
- Keeping the Door Open: One mother's transition from work to home and back again
- Crime novelist Elmore Leonard dies
- From Indian Ocean to Uganda: China will build Kenya's new rail line
- Whether he killed her or not, South Africans think Pistorius will go free
- Stocks inch higher to break four-day decline
- Humongous plume of iron-rich water discovered in Atlantic
- New White House pup Sunny: Why not a rescue dog?
- Climate change: Scientists now 95 percent certain we are mostly to blame
- With aid groups stretched thin, Syrian refugees provide their own relief
- Labor Day sales: Scoping out the best deals
- Global ViewpointWhy the Arab Spring hasn't failed in Egypt and Middle East
- Tesla crash test: Does record safety rating mean electric cars are safer?
- Betting on former J.C. Penney director Bill Ackman
- 10 things you may not know about the 1963 March on Washington
- Prince William and Kate Middleton release first photos of the wee Prince George
- Ancient Egyptian jewelry came from outer space, say scientists
- Swedes rise in 'hijab outcry'
- OpinionWise up, Israelis. Prolonged civil war in Syria is bad news for you.
- Hatch chile and corn frittata
- J.C. Penney woes continue with huge earnings loss
- New little girl arrives at White House. Meet Sunny Obama.
- Indian rupee hits record low
- Allegiant flights to connect smaller New York cities to Florida
- Teens say they shot Christopher Lane for 'the fun of it'
- 9/11 defendant leaves Guantánamo hearing, citing 'psychological torture'
- 'Today' is now the home of a book club
- Tesla crash test: Tesla Model S is the safest car in the history of the NHTSA
- Bad credit, confusing taxes: 10 personal finance problems solved
- Lithuania vows to earn trust of post-Soviet states as EU president
- Pakistan's ex-leader Musharraf charged with murdering Benazir Bhutto
- Elmore Leonard, bestselling crime novelist and screenwriter, dies
- Nazi camp: Merkel pauses campaign to visit Dachau
- Marg Helgenberger returning to 'CSI'? Sort of.
- US quietly suspends military aid to Egypt, but won't call uprising a coup
- LinkedIn targets college-bound high schoolers
- Kodak bankruptcy: Can 'failed company' find new Kodak moment?
- Pentagon: US influence on Egypt military 'limited,' but ties pay dividends
- Olivia Newton-John: Who is the man found dead in her home?
- Why Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had to renounce his Canadian citizenship
- Ecstatic Nation
- A 'Fiddler on the Roof' rabbi whose business smarts have attracted Google
- 'The Bone Season': the new book earning 'Harry Potter' comparisons
- Flight diverted after man tries to open door in flight
- Mashco-Piro tribe members attempt to contact outsiders
- Tesla Model S reportedly scores off the charts on safety
- Google Maps will add real-time road reports from Waze
- Barnes & Noble's really bad day: Buyout cancelled, stock plunges
- Out of this world: Ancient Egyptians wore meteorite jewelry
- Amazon.com offers a new deal on the Xbox One games
- Disneyland and Legoland and beaches: Not a bad halfway point for a road trip
- Objections roll in on Detroit bankruptcy filing, to what effect?
- California allowed to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners, judge rules
- Reader recommendation: The Orchardist
- Has Egypt brought back Mubarak's police state?
- A Christian Science PerspectiveThe quest for peace and stability in Egypt
- Crisis in Egypt: US seeks to preserve influence. Is there any left?
- Robin Thicke asks judge to settle plagiarism allegations about his hit song 'Blurred Lines'