Rations over riot

Jeffery Fleishman (Los Angeles Times): Reporting from Cairo — The revolution has not yet come to Milad Zari's bakery.

Cairo is raging in protest. Tanks rumble past buildings aflame. But down an alley, just beyond the city of the dead, where the poor live scattered amid forgotten graves, Zari bakes bread. He works from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m., earning less than $90 a month to pay the rent and raise six children.

It has been this way for 20 years, his hands, quick as sparrows, feeding flat dough into an oven.

"How can I go into the street and protest?" he says. "I can barely survive."

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