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Monitor articles for August 18, 2004

• Chávez's Challenge
• In praise of the flowerpot
• Tired of post-9/11 hassles, Arab tourists head east
• Sun-shy female commuters fuel an Asian fad
• World
• Olympic drama, but no chorus
• Greek baseball team, made in the USA
• Bush goes on offense
• Would Israel strike first at Iran?
• A storm of help follows Charley
• Business & Finance
• Hidden nations
• Wrought-iron beauty from a more stylish age
• Keep your Olympics; Haiti's got Brazil
• How a reporter was set free
• Letters
• USA
• How I've been enriched by beggars
• Marked men with no place to hide
• Useful again, 2,000 years later
• Heating-oil prices to stay hot for winter
• My friend Rob
• Reporters on the Job
• A Fleet-Footed Military
• Iraq call-ups sap manpower back home
• Etc...
• Some gardens delight both the eyes and the nose
• The candidates are sweating, but Americans are cool
• Desert hospitality, honor, and the war outside the door