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Dubai is both a city and one of the United Arab Emirates' seven emirates (Dubai is the second-largest). It has remade itself from a modest port town, where pearl diving was once the main industry, into a bustling business center and luxury beach resort. The imagination of the shiekdom's developers seemingly knows no bounds: In the mix are giant palm-shaped artificial islands, an indoor ski run, a hotel built in the shape of a sailboat, the world's first "seven-star" resort, and thousands of laborers imported to maintain the furious building pace.