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For years the shantytown grew in the shadow of a limestone cliff, its wooden shacks and shoddy brick apartments creeping up and spreading over the hill. The whole time, the limestone was cracking inside, slowly and invisibly, from the slum's own sewage.
Deadly rock slide fuels Egyptian anger
Seeded on Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:50 PM EDT
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No clue. So, at what point does it become the government's responsibility to protect the people from the dangerous cliffs under which the people chose to live?
#2 - Sat Sep 13, 2008 5:26 PM EDTWhen people moved there. According to the story they knew that. It looks like their own fault. A government can help people. Though they can not everybody.
#3 - Sat Sep 13, 2008 8:49 PM EDT"Wealthy businessmen dominate the government, led by President Hosni Mubarak for 27 years, and many feel money flows only to a thin crust of the upper class."
Sounds just like America to me.
#4 - Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:32 PM EDTEgypt's future lay with the hopes and guidance of Anwar Sadat, in my opinion one of the best 20th century leaders, but fundamentalist muslims fixed that.
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