Counter-cultural social upheavals spreading across America's universities also made their mark on campus life in Provo, Utah, including protests against the school's all-white sports teams.
The upheaval has spread across the industry.
The upheaval has spread from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli, where residents the Times spoke to by phone described gunfire, street fighting, and young people setting fire to trash bins, blocking roads.
Ben Ali, who was in power for 23 years before being overthrown by upheavals which spread to much of the rest of the Arab world and Iran, has experienced health problems over the past few years and has received treatment in the past in France.
The scent of the jasmine revolution, as Tunisians are calling their national upheaval, has certainly spread.
While investors in the United States have so far ridden out the tumult in the Middle East, analysts said that they would have a harder time shrugging off the upheaval as it spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
The limitations also follow two weeks of unusually harsh treatment of political activists, possibly also inspired by fear that the upheaval in the Middle East could spread to China.
The United States definitely has an interest in the way things go because financial upheaval in Europe can easily spread across the Atlantic via the banking system.
MOSCOW — Vladimir V. Putin, the prime minister of Russia, warned on Wednesday of a growing "cult of violence" around the world and expressed concern that upheavals in the Middle East could spread to his own country.
If terror networks accelerate their growth, aided by climate change, our military may reach its breaking point, trying to contain the spread of terrorism and upheaval it causes.
In Britain, the upheavals of the industrial revolution were spread over several generations.
