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Re:Good-bye to Dubai by mwerty on Monday August 16, 2010 @02:05AM (#1607000)
Muscat could have been Dubai if they had developed their port. I don't think Dubai is in a worse place than Muscat in the long term.

The reason people see Dubai going down is the same reason people saw it go up - ambitious/optimistic development by the 'socialistic' ruler.

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Re:Good-bye to Dubai by hugh3 on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:41AM (#1608102)
Muscat could have been Dubai if they had developed their port.

It took me several reads to figure out that that sentence had nothing to do with wine.

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