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Monitor articles for December 20, 2011
- A pageant winner's effort to change Venezuela's focus on beauty
- Peruvians unhappy with Lori Berenson's holiday parole (video)
- Sympathy? Condolences? South Korea weighs response to Kim Jong-il's death.
- A cracking good present
- First true Google tablet arriving next year, says Schmidt
- On Conan Doyle
- 10 book-to-movie adaptations coming this holiday season
- A feast of seven fishes
- 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' remake: movie review
- David Archuleta takes break from singing career to join Mormon mission
- Can Paul Allen launch rockets into space from a plane?
- PlayStation Vita enjoys great first week. Is it enough?
- What will happen after sun vaporizes Earth? Scorched planets hold clues.
- First Earth-size planets found around distant star – in a bizarre solar system
- Astronauts plan space station holiday bash (Video)
- Beef chili and cheddar cornbread
- Doughnut holes for Hanukkah
- Not just 'closed' but 'exceptionally closed'
- 'The Dark Knight Rises' trailer is here, gritty
- 'The Dark Knight Rises' trailer draws controversy for villain Bane's portrayal
- Christmas cookie platter ideas
- With payroll-tax cut, House GOP aims to force senators back to Capitol
- House rejects payroll-tax deal. Is it now dead?
- What if Ron Paul wins Iowa – and New Hampshire, too?
- Do new endorsements mean Mitt Romney is finally winning over the GOP?
- Is Newt Gingrich the Christine O'Donnell of Election 2012?
- Housing market improves
- New home construction increases
- Test your baseball knowledge with our comprehensive quiz
- Blizzard closes highways from New Mexico to Kansas
- US man found guilty of conspiracy to assist Al Qaeda
- Bill Conlin of Philadelphia Daily News accused of child molestation
- Congress has its most disappointing year ever
- Oil futures rise to near $95
- AT&T calls off bid for T-Mobile. Now what?
- Frankincense in decline. Fewer gifts will grow on trees.
- The payroll tax battle gets worse
- Twelve days of Christmas hopes for tough economy, deadlocked Congress
- Google invests $94 million in California solar farms
- Smartphones: The best way to watch the Super Bowl?
- Dow surges 337 on Europe, housing report
- Kremlin turns to more covert tactics to undermine Russia's protest movement
- Piers Morgan stays mum about Paul McCartney phone message
- Typhoon Sendong: Did illegal logging cause flash flooding in Philippines?
- With deadline looming to close MEK's Camp Ashraf in Iraq, what next?
- Wounded Syrian refugees describe firefight, siege
- Syria vows to execute 'terrorists' after worst day of violence
- Newt Gingrich fades, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul rise, say polls
- Lori Berenson home for the holidays for the first time in 16 years
- Government nears end of hearing against accused WikiLeaks source Manning
- When politicians speak of Christ at Christmas
- Made in China: US can't afford high cost of low-priced Christmas gifts
- Increasing debt to avoid depression only benefits the wealthy
- Failed Martin Luther King Day parade bomber gets 32-year sentence
- Will we see Yu Darvish in Texas? (VIDEO)
- Local version of American Idol highlights growing rich-poor divide in Papua New Guinea
- Could Iraq descend into a civil war again? (VIDEO)
- Is Strauss-Kahn staging a political comeback – on his wife's coattails?
- New guidelines show chimps are rarely needed for medical research
- After US withdrawal from Iraq, a tallying of the balance sheet
- Christmas and the human family
- Snowstorm US: blizzard heads north, but Southwest still digging out
- Holiday travel: why airports will be a little emptier this year
- Why 2012 could be the year of the third-party candidate
- How Newt Gingrich won over the tea party
- Election 101: Where the GOP candidates stand on China, Iran, Israel and other key foreign issues