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    Top 25 Most-Shared Mashable Stories in August

    You really like your coffee, don't you?

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    In a month where Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO, Google acquired Motorola Mobility and HP discontinued webOS operations, Mashable readers focused on the story about the Pumpkin Spice Latte's return to Starbucks, which tops our monthly most-shared stories list.

    The big social networks also attracted significant attention as Twitter plopped "user galleries" on profiles, Facebook overhauled privacy settings and President Barack Obama joined Foursquare.

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    Based on figures from Mashable Follow's M Share button, the following 25 stories got the most love, with all of them garnering about 240,000 combined shares on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon and Google Buzz. To keep track of the most-shared stories at anytime, log into Mashable Follow and click on "Top Stories" next to the Mashable logo. You'll have the option to view the top stories of the day, week, month or year.

    Which stories will you remember the most as the year progresses? Which stories are missing?

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    • Missing University of Rhode Island Student Found in North Carolina

      Matthew Royer Did Not Show Up at His Pennsylvania Home or Summer Job

    • Supermodel Nina Agdal goes to prom with California teen

      After Kate Upton turned down Jake Davidson’s invitation to his high school prom, his consolation prize was nothing short of a miracle.

    • Fox News Is a Terrible Advocate for Freedom of the Press

      Roger Ailes is full of self-righteous outrage that the Department of Justice subpoenaed Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails as it investigated the leak of classified information about North Korea. It's a recent conversion after leading a news network that has been calling for criminalizing journalism for years.

    • John McCain Is the Latest Senior Senator to Have Had Enough of Junior Ted Cruz

      For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also about so much more. Cruz is being annoying about the budget, but worse, he just doesn't get the Senate. 

    • Dog Found Standing Guard Over a Tornado Victim Reunited With Her Owner

      There's a happy ending to the story of a dog, found alive in the rubble after a massive tornado devastated Moore, Oklahoma: she's been reunited with her owner.

    • 10 Unusual Jobs That Pay Surprisingly Well

      You don't have to be a doctor, lawyer, or CEO to pull in six figures a year. As it turns out, there are plenty of unusual jobs that pay surprisingly well. To find 10 of them, I combed through BLS data ...

    • WHEN DID WE VOTE TO BECOME MEXICO?

      At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal. But that didn't make sense because the IRS scandal is a more obvious abuse of power than the White House lying about the murder of four Americans in Libya.Before I had resolved which scandal was distracting from which, we found out the Department of Justice was spying on The Associated Press -- not to protect national security, but to prevent the AP from scooping the White House. Then, this week, it broke that the Department of Justice was also spying on Fox News for reasons that remain unexplained. ...

    • 25 Worst Gadget Flops of All Time

      There are gadgets that change everything (the iPhone, the first Intel Centrino laptops, Bose's noise-canceling headphones), and then there are devices that are so spectacularly bad that they should be immortalized in their own way. The last few decades have seen all kinds of flops, from a not-so-world-changing scooter to Nokia's attempt to beat Nintendo and Sony at their own game.

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