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Egyptians mark uprising anniversary  AYA BATRAWY,Associated
Press MARIAM RIZK,Associated Press Friday, January 25, 2013
Overshadowing their struggle is an economy in free-fall that
threatens to fuel public discontent. The vital tourism sector
has slumped, investment shriveled, foreign currency reserves
have tumbled and prices are on the rise, with more pain likely
in the coming months if the government moves to implement new
austerity measures.  In Cairo's central Tahrir square, where the
January 2011 uprising was born, and the area outside Morsi's
palace in the city's Heliopolis district were rapidly filling up
with protesters by Friday afternoon. There were similar if
smaller crowds in central squares in the Mediterranean cities of
Alexandria and Port Said as well as the Mehalla in the Nile
Delta, Suez at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, Assiut
and Luxor in the south and Fay