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People power and social media combust in Egypt

By Donna Miskin | Updated on March 01, 2011

The year of living dangerously has been recycled in Internet time. Developing nations were supposed to be hotbeds of growth in 2011, not rife with revolution. No forecast mentioned that people power and social media would combust in Egypt in a force strong enough to topple its dictator of 30 years in less than three weeks as rebellion sweeps the Mideast. At press time, Libya’s erratic strongman Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight rebels to “the last ounce of blood,” or perhaps the last drop of Libya’s annual oil output, ranked 17th in the world.

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