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What kind of an eater are you?

From locavores to femivores, to fast food junkies and punk domestics, here are 11 labels for every kind of person at the dinner table.
Immigration reform 101: How does Senate plan address four big questions?

After months of closed-door negotiations, the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” offered a legislative summary of its proposal for comprehensive immigration reform. Here is how the Senate gang handled the four hottest immigration flashpoints.
10 influential authors who came to the US as immigrants

These 10 immigrant authors have all made significant contributions to US literature and culture.
Top 3 threats to the United States: the good and bad news

The annual Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community is out this week, a widely-anticipated report compiled by the nation’s intelligence agencies. Here is the good and bad news about the top three threats facing the United States, according to an unclassified version of the report.
Valentine's Day: 12 classic love stories

Here's our list of 12 of literature's greatest love stories.

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NASA's CO2 satellite tanks, unlike CO2 levels themselves
Hutu rebels drop guns, return to Rwanda

Rwanda's Army is flushing FDLR fighters out of Congo.
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Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa’s Fragile Edge
In N. Africa, Al Qaeda offshoot claims six Western hostages

The claim by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb that it holds hostages kidnapped more than a month ago fuels fears that the group is expanding its reach.
Difference Maker One man helps the disabled see the world

Craig Grimes broke his back 12 years ago. From Nicaragua, he launches the first online booking engine for disabled travelers.
Africans improvise the movie house

Surround sound, it’s not. But a bamboo-and-mud hut is all it takes to draw film audiences ready for entertainment at 40 cents a ticket.
Why did Sudan make a deal with Darfur rebels?

Khartoum has agreed to swap prisoners and talk with Darfur insurgents.
Best African American Essays: 2009

A nonfiction collection examines African-American concerns in the Obama era.
Cellphone banking takes Kenya by storm

Less than two years after introducing mobile banking, M-Pesa has registered one-sixth of the population as customers and moves more than $4 million each day.
Brutal retreat of LRA rebels in Congo

The joint mission to finish off the notorious Lord's Resistance Army has led to more than 900 deaths and displaced more than 1,330 civilians since it began nearly two months ago.
Letters to the Editor

Readers write about whether the US economy will do better if its left alone, and why Africa needs property rights laws as well as enterprise.
Clivias - elegant flowering plants for winter

Clivias aren’t as well known as orchids, but they’re easier to grow.
Opinion: More than aid money, Africa needs enterprise

To reduce poverty and create jobs, Africa must become economically competitive.
The Monitor's View: The West's next move in Zimbabwe

Short of lifting sanctions, it can offer targeted help to boost Mugabe's rival.
Sudan expels a Canadian contributor to the Monitor

The expulsion brings new attention to the government's uneasy relationship with the news media.
Somali pirates free hijacked Ukrainian ship

The reported release of the freighter, carrying 33 tanks and other heavy weapons, closes a brazen chapter in the Somali piracy saga.
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Funds tighten for fighting AIDS and malaria worldwide

Global health leaders are urging the Obama administration to make up a deepening shortfall.
Review: 'The Class'

Docudrama superbly explores the interplay of a teacher and his racially mixed students in Paris classroom.
Opinion: In Uganda, justice, or just a publicity stunt?

Uganda's recent attacks on the LRA are misguided.
The Monitor's View: How to feed the hungry billion

The global food crisis has slipped from the headlines. The world can solve it. Will it?
Researchers study the other greenhouse gas: water vapor

By tracking specific origins of moisture, scientists can better predict regional rain and snowfall.
Welcome to the ultimate sailing race – around the world, alone

Skippers hit speeds in excess of 30 m.p.h. as they brave near-hurricane winds, monstrous seas, and flying squid in one of the most harrowing sporting competitions in the world – the Vendée Globe.
Earth’s big problem: Too many people.

But how can we ease population without taking draconian steps? By developing in ways that we should be anyway, experts say.