Tide of Revolt Sweeps Mid...

        Rebellion and fighting in Mali, Algerians and Mauritanians involved, Syria (egad!), and what's happening in Egypt (which many, many Egyptians are asking more than I am).

        Tide of revolt sweeps Mideast

        This exact headline appeared 2 1/2 years ago.  What was a transplanted Californian who grew up in Minnesota to make of such makeovers as were going on in the Mideast?  In fact,  Connie and I, native Minneapolitan and St. Paulite, respectively, both read that headline when it appeared  Tide of revolt sweeps Midwest.  We're not used to seeing that shortened-from-the-Middle-East form for anything but our native Midwest.  It was shocking to think of the Midwest in a tide of revolt, even if only momentarily! 

       But as it's going, the same headline could be broken out again.