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Father's Day: 12 best books for Dad
Check out these 12 books. At least one will be a perfect fit for your dad.
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3 new foreign mystery novels that are worth your travel time
Craving a foreign excursion? Try the next best thing – one of these mystery novels set in far-away lands.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner: 5 books about the world's most audacious art theft
These five books – fiction and nonfiction – share a connection to the notorious March 18, 1990, theft of 13 masterworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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'Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye': 5 stories from a family's time near the Arctic
Zac Unger temporarily moved his family to Churchill, Manitoba, to experience life in the polar bear wild. Here are some of his stories from his book "Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye."
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20 best iPhone apps for starters
Here's a selection of some essential and not-so-essential apps that will help you get by in a world increasingly dependent on digital interaction.
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John Hughes EU presidency would be bully pulpit for Blair
Tony Blair is the most likely candidate, but would he preach his personal views, or commit the EU to intervention?
10/29/2009 01:00 am -
A private space industry is born
Human spaceflight today may be where the satellite business was early on: Governments initially handled everything, but eventually companies took over the business.
10/26/2009 01:00 am -
Could IRA splinter groups bring back Northern Ireland's Troubles?
IRA splinter groups like the Continuity IRA have stepped up attacks in Northern Ireland. While they have a hard core and cause some mayhem, they are unlikely to spark a broader conflict.
10/23/2009 01:00 am -
In Pictures Seven Wonders of Nature finalists
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After the fall of the wall: Germans long to downsize their role
Germany's postwar internationalism seems to be giving way to parochialism.
10/17/2009 01:00 am -
Obama's Guantánamo, counterterror policies similar to Bush's?
Afghanistan's Bagram is becoming the new Guantánamo, one legal scholar said at a gathering of the American Constitution Society.
10/16/2009 01:00 am -
Safe at gunpoint
A Christian Science perspective.
10/15/2009 01:00 am -
Ulysses and Us
10/08/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog Ireland: Romance tourism booms in matchmaking month
Ireland's tourism industry shrunk 10 percent this year. But the matchmaking festival annually draws some 40,000 singles – and millions of dollars.
10/05/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog Ireland embraces Lisbon Treaty. Will Blair be next EU president?
Ireland says 'yes' to Lisbon Treaty. Reforms will give European Union a unified foreign policy, and a permanent president.
10/04/2009 01:00 am -
The Monitor's View Europe's future in Irish hands
Ireland votes on a make-or-break treaty to strengthen the European Union. For economic and security reasons, it should vote ‘yes.’
10/01/2009 01:00 am -
True Compass
For the first time, a glimpse of the Kennedys from the inside.
10/01/2009 01:00 am -
Paris rooftops abuzz with beekeeping
On storied rooftops and public gardens in the urban jungle of Paris, the bee business is thriving.
09/29/2009 01:00 am -
How a little jam went global
'Stand by Me' YouTube hit started a cascade of interviews, a CD – and next month, a tour.
09/21/2009 01:00 am -
After the fall of the wall: Middle Europe reemerges – sort of
The connections of the old Habsburg Empire have reappeared, post cold war, but regional identity has not.
09/17/2009 01:00 am -
The New Economy Money Daily Brief: Japan sees 'signs of recovery'
09/17/2009 01:00 am -
On foreign affairs, Kennedy challenged presidential power
His most important vote, he said, was against the Iraq War. But he also had major impact on human rights and other issues.
08/28/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog Ted Kennedy tributes: World remembers 'Lion of the Senate'
The longtime Democratic senator from Massachusetts will be mourned on 'every continent,' said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday.
08/26/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog Adm. Mullen joins Lockerbie outrage
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday that he was 'appalled' by the United Kingdom's decision to release convicted bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, which he said was clearly 'political.'
08/23/2009 01:00 am -
Sunrise for solar heat power
Four technologies aim to use heat from the sun to make electricity. But which one has the edge?
08/18/2009 01:00 am -
Global News Blog Bill Clinton's latest tough sell: Haiti
The former president, who was recently named UN Special Envoy to Haiti, plans to go there in October on a 'major trade mission.'
08/16/2009 01:00 am -
Discoveries Oops! This planet is orbiting in the wrong direction
08/13/2009 01:00 am -
From our files: Eunice Kennedy Shriver - at jet speed
In a 1975 interview with the Monitor, Mrs. Shriver spoke of her family, her heroes, personal ambitions.
08/11/2009 01:00 am -
Irish blasphemers, beware! New law befuddles nation, but fulfills Constitution
After years of decreasing influence for religion in public life, Ireland’s new blasphemy law has free speech campaigners worried.
07/28/2009 01:00 am -
The New Economy New-home sales up, prices down in US and abroad
07/27/2009 01:00 am
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