THE current global energy-food crisis is, understandably, a pocket-book issue in America. But when you come to Egypt, you see how, in a society where so many more people live close to the edge, food and fuel prices could become enormously destabilising. If these prices keep soaring, food and fuel could reshape politics around the developing world as much as nationalism or Communism did in their days. A few years ago, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak belatedly but clearly embarked on an economic reform path that has produced seven per cent annual growth in the last three years