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People walk past a burned police station in Cairo, Egypt, Monday Jan. 31, 2011. Police and garbage collectors appeared on the streets of Cairo Monday morning and subway stations reopened after soldiers and neighborhood watch groups kept the peace in many districts overnight.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Answers to basic "what": questions about Egypt

Peter Finocchiaro

Williams, Couric take shows on the road to Egypt

Peter Finocchiaro
Anti-government protesters offer their evening prayers, in front of an Egyptian army tank securing the area, during a protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. A coalition of opposition groups called for a million people to take to Cairo's streets Tuesday to demand the removal of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Peter Finocchiaro
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An Egyptian man uses his mobile phone to take a picture of the Arcadia shopping center, that was looted, damaged and set on fire by people in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday Jan. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

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Passengers stranded by the curfew and thus prevented from entering the Egyptian capital sleep at Cairo airport, early Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Bertrand Combaldieu) (AP)

Menelaos Hadjicostis, Victoria Hazou
Egyptian anti-government activists, one of them holding a crossed-out portrait of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, chant slogans as they protest in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (AP)

Hamza Hendawi, Maggie Michael
In this image taken from Egypt State TV, showing Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, as he swears in General Mahmoud Wagdy as the new interior minister, front left, during a ceremony to swear in the new government Cabinet as broadcast on Egypt State TV, Monday Jan. 31, 2011. State TV has announced that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has sworn in a new Cabinet, replacing the Cabinet which was dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.( AP Photo / Egypt State TV) MANDATORY CREDIT - TV OUT - EGYPT OUT (AP)

Hamza Hendawi, Maggie Michael
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An unidentified high ranked military official, center, and a police officer explain to the crowd that army, police and the citizens must work hand in hand, in Cairo, Sunday Jan. 30, 2011. The Arab world's most populous nation appeared to be swiftly moving closer to a point at which it either dissolves into widespread chaos or the military expands its presence and control of the streets. (AP Photo/Victoria Hazou) (AP)

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A boy shows spent cartridges used by Egyptian security forces, in Cairo, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. The Arab world's most populous nation appeared to be swiftly moving closer to a point at which it either dissolves into widespread chaos or the military expands its presence and control of the streets. (AP Photo/Tara Todra Whitehill) (AP)

Americans evacuate Egypt, Al Jazeera shut down

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Egyptians gesture as they stand atop an Egyptian army armored vehicle as they celebrate in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Hundreds of anti-government protesters returned Saturday to the streets of central Cairo, chanting slogans against Hosni Mubarak and attacking police just hours after the Egyptian president fired his Cabinet and promised reforms but refused to step down. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

Adam Clark Estes
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and his wife Teresa Heinz talks with guests at the funeral Mass for R. Sargent Shriver at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic church in Potomac, Md., Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedys, and the first director of the Peace Corps, died Tuesday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, Pool) (AP)

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The Egyptian museum is seen intact, right, as smoke billows from the ruling National Democratic party building, torched by anti government protesters overnight, in central Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Ethan Sherwood Strauss
An Egyptian anti-government activist, wounded during clashes with police, poses for the photographer along with other protesters in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, early Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. Mobile phone service have been partially restored in Egypt, Saturday, after the recent communications blackout. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Massive demonstration swells in Cairo, 38 dead

Maggie Michael
President Barack Obama speaks at Families USA's 16th annual health action conference in Washington, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

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In this image made from video broadcast on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appears on television saying he has asked his Cabinet to resign, in his first appearance on television since protests erupted demanding his ouster. (AP Photo/Egypt TV) (AP)

Hadeel Al-shalchi, Hamza Hendawi
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Egyptian anti-government activists, some standing on a burned police car challenge riot police officers, not seen, during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday Jan. 28, 2011. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of Egypt Friday, stoning and confronting police who fired back with rubber bullets and tear gas in the most violent and chaotic scenes yet in the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Erica Werner, Matthew Lee
An Egyptian woman flees as Egyptian anti-riot policemen clash with protesters in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Egyptian activists protested for a fourth day as social networking sites called for a mass rally in the capital Cairo after Friday prayers, keeping up the momentum of the country's largest anti-government protests in years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Egypt imposes curfew as military enters streets

Sarah El Deeb, Maggie Michael

Adam Clark Estes - Ethan Sherwood Strauss
Former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei talks to members of the media as he arrives at Cairo's airport in Egypt, from Austria, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. ElBaradei told reporters that 'the regime has not been listening.' He urged the Egyptian regime to exercise restraint with protesters, saying they have been met with a good deal of violence which could lead to an 'explosive situation.' (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) (AP)

Hamza Hendawi, Sarah El Deeb
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Yemeni demonstrators chant slogans during a rally calling for an end to the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Tens of thousands of people are calling for the Yemeni president's ouster in protests across the capital inspired by the popular revolt in Tunisia. The demonstrations led by opposition members and youth activists are a significant expansion of the unrest sparked by the Tunisian uprising, which also inspired Egypt's largest protests in a generation. Banners read from right: 'Together lets break the ruling party'. 'Poverty and wealth how could it work?!', 'Jeddah Jeddah', and 'Yes for change no for faking and extending'. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

How is unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen connected?

Peter Finocchiaro
Angery Egyptian activist shouts at anti-riot policemen who block the way leading to journalists syndicate in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. A small gathering of Egyptian anti-government activists tried to stage a second day of protests in Cairo Wednesday in defiance of a ban on any gatherings, but police quickly moved in and used force to disperse the group. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP)

Egypt: Could protests effect lasting change?

Peter Finocchiaro
Yemeni students chant slogans calling on their president Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the government and follow Tunisian ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile during a protest in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed) (AP)

Thousands rally against government in Yemen

Ahmed Al-haj
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