Drugs found in urine or blood testing count as "possession" under UAE law. BBC DJ Grooverider (real name: Raymond Bingham) was sentenced to four years in prison after a pair of jeans in his luggage was found to contain just over 2 grams of marijuana.[19] The Dubai authorities have been known to stop tourists on layovers the airport and are now using extremely sensitive electronic detection equipment, including urine and blood screening, to search for traces of illegal substances. Keith Brown, a British national and father of three, was arrested on September 17, 2007 after authorities claim to have discovered a speck of cannabis on the bottom of one of his shoes. According to an article in the Daily Mail,[20] the alleged illegal substance was smaller than a grain of sugar - weighing approximately .003 grams. He has also been sentenced to four years in prison. Another UK citizen, Tracy Wilkinson, was arrested and accused of being a "drugs baroness" in 2005 after authorities found codeine in her blood.[21] Wilkinson has a bad back and received an injection of codeine at a Dubai hospital. She ended up spending two months in a cell where she contracted dysentery, head lice and an infestation of fleas before she was eventually released on bail. German television producer Cat Le-Huy was arrested in January 2008 for possessing a bottle of the over-the-counter hormone sleep aid Melatonin.[22] Authorities claimed that some dirt in Mr. Le-Huy's luggage was hashish. A Vancouver resident named Bert Tatham was arrested at Dubai International Airport returning home from Afghanistan (where he was ironically working with farmers to try and convince them not to grow poppies). The anti-narcotics officer was found to have two dead poppy bulbs and a tiny amount of hashish melted into the seams of one of his trouser pockets.[23] After spending more than 10 months in prison, he was eventually pardoned by U.A.E. President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Thank you! Thank you for reminding us who exactly built all those structures. There is no grand parade or public acknowledgment given to those hard working men and women who toil in intolerable heat and living conditions.

If anything, yes, this is an impressive display but come on. This is an island catered to the rich and nothing more.

If anyone actually knows, I am very curious because I'm studying the Bahamas' Atlantis for a project.

/ it's okay to have money but...come on now.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/08/middleeast.construction

All the infrastructure and seeming prosperity there is made possible by slave labor. They lure workers from other countries under false pretenses, confiscate their passports and withhold plane tickets to strand them there, then make them work brutal hours. If you have to glorify Dubai, at least give some thought to the suffering that made it possible.

Were these "enhanced" like the Chinese fireworks?

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To quote Robert Jordan...

"The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again."