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Monitor articles for October 17, 2012
- Finger scans to get federal childcare vouchers protested
- Maine earthquake rattles mom into preparedness (sort of).
- Exit visas: Finally a political opening in Cuba?
- Amazon will hire 50,000 temporary workers for the holidays
- Putin warns of growing terror risks as Kremlin arrests opposition leader
- Iran sees conspiracy in box office success of Ben Affleck's 'Argo'
- Zumba scandal: Should names (and addresses) be released in prostitution case?
- Debate fact check: Romney stumbles on energy
- Presidential debate: Obama is back
- Saudi princess founds Opt4Unity to bridge cultural divides
- Travel: Iceland and pan-seared salmon
- Global ViewpointThe price of inequality: Q&A with Nobel economics winner Joseph Stiglitz
- There Was a Country
- Reader recommendation: The Forgotten Waltz
- Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker Prize for 'Bring Up the Bodies'
- CIA officer killed in Afghan suicide blast, US official says
- Sihanouk comes home to Cambodia for final time
- Baby Jessica rescue: Was it the birth of helicopter parenting?
- Joss Whedon's 'S.H.I.E.L.D' TV show will feature Agent Coulson
- OpinionObama's missed debate opportunities against Romney may cost him
- Kenyan Christians fear former brethren are attacking churches
- UN envoy to Syria visits region to resurrect cease-fire efforts
- Maine earthquake felt across New England
- A 4th presidential debate? Larry King to moderate third-party candidate forum.
- Prosecutors allowed to examine James Holmes' college records
- 5 wolves killed in first days of Wisconsin wolf hunt
- FBI arrests man plotting to blow up NY Federal Reserve
- Earth-size planet found just next door, in Alpha Centauri system
- Romney's charge: Obama used bird deaths to attack Bakken oil producers. True?
- Presidential debate 101: Did Mitt Romney want Detroit to go bankrupt?
- In Syria's war, long-repressed minority finds new freedom
- Viewing the Romney-Obama debate in battleground Ohio: a tribal experience
- Candy Crowley: How did she do as moderator of the presidential debate?
- Lance Armstrong quits as Livestrong chairman
- Montana hikers found as one mom and son learn hiking Rule 1
- Has Obama reenergized Democrats with debate performance?
- A Christian Science PerspectivePrayer and Iran's nuclear threat
- Earth-sized planet too hot for non-asbestos life forms, but ...
- Counterfeit bills in ATMs. Bad copies. Man arrested.
- Solyndra sues Chinese solar companies
- 'Binders full of women': What's the social media buzz about?
- Medicare: Taking it private would raise premiums
- No, the electric car is not a failure
- Breakfast companions
- Round 2: President Obama turns up the heat in combative debate
- Syria's wealthy business owners face war-time squeeze
- Still occupying: Occupy Des Moines targets World Food Prize Foundation
- Presidential debate 101: In oil drilling spat, did Obama make his best case?
- 9/11 cases: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed speaks in court, lectures judge
- Why has the Wisconsin Senate race tightened?
- The Monitor's ViewMr. Obama, just say no to state ballots on marijuana legalization
- Getting in on the Benghazi blame game
- Presidential debate 101: Does Romney’s tax math add up?
- Actress Megan Fox has new baby – it's a boy
- Nike drops Lance Armstrong. Is his net worth in jeopardy?
- A123 electric car battery plants to be bought by Johnson Controls
- Stock market edges up on stronger housing report
- Why natural gas isn't likely to solve our energy woes
- Baba Ramdev: Can a yogi turn Indian politics on its head?
- British Pakistanis to Malala: You go, girl
- 'Binders full of women': a revealing remark from Romney, or a sideshow?
- Scientists confident moon born of colossal Earth collision that vaporized Zinc
- 'Binders full of women' and Romney: the presidential debate
- Humongous, 60-million-light-year-long strand of dark matter mapped in 3-D
- Oil prices fall as supplies rise
- Construction up in September
- Earth-sized planet in Alpha Centauri an alien concept to many Earthlings
- Australia marches ahead with India ties - despite a few trip ups
- Would Romney really dare to tag China a 'currency manipulator'?
- Ethiopia surprises itself with peaceful transition after Meles
- Apple promises 'a little more' on Oct. 23. iPad Mini incoming?