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12:10 AM Wed, Jan 06, 2010 |
By David Brussat    Email this author |   Email this entry

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"Only time will tell whether Dubai will remain the blue-eyed boy of the world's real-estate market." Thus concluded a television report from New Delhi on the opening of the Burj Dubai amid the emirate's recent credit crisis. The report pointed out that a quarter of the world's construction cranes are in use in Dubai. In New Delhi, the second tallest building is only about 600 feet, but it was built six centuries ago.

Lots of broken records at the base of the Burj Dubai, including the shortest span between the opening of a world's tallest building and the change of its name. To learn more, read Thursday's column, and as a special treat, learn the local connection.

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