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Locals watch the fireworks explode over the Atlantis resort in Dubai. Dubai got a $10 billion lifeline in December from oil-rich Abu Dhabi to save one of its prized companies from imminent default, calming fears for now about the city-state's shaky finances.
Decadent Dubai
In less than a couple of decades, Dubai has managed to out-bling Vegas. Colour televisions were rare until the late 1970s, but now it boasts the tallest, longest, shiniest, biggest and newest of everything in a sprawling look-at-me metropolis.
The glass-and-steel city rising out of the desert beside the Persian Gulf ...
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