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Uzbekistan

Heartland of the Fabled Silk Road I doubt that most, or any, of the five independent republics I recently visited—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—could be found on a…

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Dubai

United Arab Emirates A Desert Town’s Meteoric Transformation A gleaming, towering, skyscraping metropolis fronting the Persian Gulf (aka the Arabian Gulf), the pint-size emirate of Dubai has risen from…