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Sports in 2012: here are some Monitor highlights
It’s impossible to list all the records set in 2012, but here’s a short rundown of some heralded highlights, plus 20 of our favorites, including some you might have missed.
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Baseball 2012: The game's best off-beat, under-the-radar statistics and trivia
Fascinating baseball firsts and notable statistics can easily be missed in the playing of more than 2,000 big-league games each year. Here are the most intriguing developments that possibly escaped your notice.
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10 best books of October, according to Amazon's editors
Sara Nelson, editorial director of books and Kindle for Amazon.com, talks about the 10 books chosen by Amazon editors as the best of October, 2012.
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10 most intriguing fall books, according to Amazon's editors
From J.K. Rowling's latest to a new book by Stephen Colbert, here are Amazon's top picks for the fall.
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Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks
Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."
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Colombia: Rappers under threat in Medellin by violent street gangs
The socially conscious, anti-violence message of many hip-hop artists' lyrics put some at odds with street gangs in Medellin, Colombia.
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Sports in 2012: here are some Monitor highlights
It’s impossible to list all the records set in 2012, but here’s a short rundown of some heralded highlights, plus 20 of our favorites, including some you might have missed.
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Los Angeles collects most guns ever, in post-Newtown buyback event
Police collected more than 2,000 firearms Wednesday in Los Angeles, during a gun buyback event held less than two weeks after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn. Do such city initiatives help reduce gun violence?
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Opinion: Sandy Hook exposes the logic gap in NRA's opposition to gun control
After Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, we hear arguments against gun control, chiefly that laws won't keep guns from evil-doers. But no one would argue that homicide laws have no place just because they can’t stop all killings. The point is, gun control will reduce carnage, if not stop it.
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McAfee's odyssey continues as he returns to US, wants to 'settle down' (+video)
McAfee was in hiding in Belize for weeks after police called him a person of interest in the killing of his neighbor.
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Software pioneer John McAfee deported from Guatemala, lands in Miami (+video)
After being deported from Guatemala, John McAfee returned to the US Wednesday evening. For now, Belize officials must wait to question McAfee about the death of his neighbor.
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Alleging US torture, terror convict Padilla appeals to Americas’ rights group
Jose Padilla's mother is alleging to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that her son, currently in solitary confinement in a Colorado prison, was tortured during his 4 years in a naval brig.
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Charlie Crist joins the Democrats: What drives a political chameleon?
Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's decision to become a Democrat suggests to his critics that he's prepping for a 2014 run against Republican Gov. Rick Scott.
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Colombia's narco-sub 'museum' gives a peek into drug trafficking tactics
For years, smugglers have been using semi-submersibles to traffic drugs. As the US wages the war on drugs, Colombia’s Pacific coast is the Silicon Valley of narco-innovation.
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Would the US free the 'Cuban Five' in exchange for Alan Gross?Three years ago, Alan Gross was arrested and found guilty of crimes against the 'sovereignty and territorial integrity' of Cuba. Now, he wants the US and Cuba to sit down together and negotiate his release.
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2012 Heisman Trophy finalists: History will be made, whoever wins
Three distinct college football players will make their way to New York City later this week for the Heisman Trophy presentation.
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Two dead in Miami airport charter bus crash
Two men died Saturday, when the driver of an oversized charter bus failed to heed height warnings at Miami International Airport and crashed into a concrete overpass.
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Home prices on the rise: why that is good for US economy
Nationwide, home prices rose 3.6 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period in 2011, new data show. The jump points to a broad recovery in the long-sluggish housing market.
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Change Agent
Nonprofits work to help legal immigrants become US citizensThe costly, lengthy, labyrinthine path to US citizenship can take two years to complete, dissuading many from trying. Nonprofits are jumping in to help.
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Florida teen charged in fatal school bus shooting
A 13-year-old girl died after being shot by a teenage boy on a school bus on the way to school on Tuesday morning. A 15-year-old boy was charged with the crime. The eight other children on the bus at the time were uninjured.
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Petraeus scandal: Jill Kelley's South Korean link
The Tampa socialite caught up in the Petraeus scandal received US State Department approval for her appointment as honorary Korean consul in Florida.
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Sandy benefit concert pulls down $23 million in pledges
The NBC benefit concert to help Sandy victims drew $22.9 million in donations for the American Red Cross. Benefit concert performers included Steven Tyler, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, and Mary J. Blige.
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Supreme Court to consider how and when police can use drug-sniffing dogs
The US Supreme Court considers Wednesday whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in making it harder for law enforcement to use dogs to discover illicit drugs in a home or vehicle.
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'Superstorm' Sandy: Assessing the damage the morning after (+video)
Sandy, no longer a hurricane, but still huge, killed at least 16 people in seven states, cut power to more than 7.4 million homes and businesses from the Carolinas to Ohio, caused scares at two nuclear power plants, and stopped the presidential campaign cold.
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Hurricane Sandy is already setting records (+video)
Hurricane Sandy already has surpassed hurricane Lili in 1996 as the second largest Atlantic storm in 24 years of storm-size recordkeeping. The size of the storm and its path are intensifying deep concerns about coastal flooding from storm surge.
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Saving Money
Sunshine State on a dime: Hotel deals in Miami, Orlando, and Ft. LauderdaleTake advantage of Florida's family-friendly vacation destinations with the best hotel deals of the week.
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Cuba to welcome back many who left
In order to normalize relations with Cubans abroad, Cuba's most recent policy is expected to allow the return of many now banned from the island, estimated any anywhere from 70,000 to 300,000.
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Cuba: Hurricane Sandy leaves destruction in its wake (+video)
Hurricane Sandy knocked down trees, clogged streets and killed at least three people in the Caribbean. The storm is expected to hit the U.S. East Coast over the weekend and into next week. Flooding, high winds and downed trees are of concern.
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American Airlines will hire 2,500 pilots
American Airlines expects to hire 2,500 over the next five years as it ramps up international flights, the company said Wednesday. American Airlines currently has 8,000 active pilots.
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Giant eyeball mystery solved: Experts say it belonged to swordfish (+video)
Though some had also suggested it came from a deep-sea squid, experts contacted by LiveScience lean toward a swordfish as the likely eyeball owner.
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