Dubai is a fantasy futuristic city set down in a traditional Muslim stronghold, where everything is bigger, flashier, and more wow than you'll find anyplace else. It's become one of the world's hottest tourist destinations, and a mega-hub for travel to points west, east, north, and south—some 90 airlines provide direct air links to more than 130 cities worldwide. It's a shopping haven—everything is duty-free—where the world's biggest shopping mall will soon rise up out of the sand flats, all 12 million square feet of it, with an Olympic-size skating rink thrown in for good measure. The world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai, is inching up as we speak and should be completed by 2009.
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