WORLD'S TALLEST TOWER
- The race to build the biggest skyscraper long ago moved from
America to Asia, then the Middle East. In the process, buildings have grown
breathtakingly taller. Still, nothing ever seen before prepares skyscraper spotters for the
towering Burj Dubai.
SPROUTING ISLANDS -
If the world seems too small, all you need to do is rebuild it; the universe
too. That's the plan in Dubai, where the Palm projects have sprouted a popular -
and profitable real estate scheme: artificial-island
creation.
SOARING
SKYSCRAPERS - The battle to build
the world's tallest tower, once essentially an American obsession, is now a
worldwide craze, with much of the biggest erections in Asia and the Middle East.
As buildings reach higher and higher, there is seemingly no upper limit to the
quest to claim the world's tallest highrise.
Death in Dubai - Scores of young
children from South Asia are kidnapped or stolen, then sold as slaves to work
within the camel-racing circuit of the Middle Eastern oil sheiks. An exclusive
look at the shameful practice.
HONG KONG OF THE MID-EAST?
That's the hope of Dubai, among the most progressive of the United Arab Emirates,
which has invested its oil wealth in hotels, an airline and other
infrastructure in an effort to become the top trading
center of the Arab world
DESERT
BASHING - Four-wheeling up and down desert dunes is only part of the fun in Dubai, a
sunny but small and long-reclusive Middle Eastern kingdom that is beginning to open
up to tourism.
Photos: Palm courtesy of Nakheel; rest by Ron
Gluckman
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