…but the frenzied pace of development in Dubai and elsewhere in the United Arab Emirates is grinding to a halt and the over-the-top extravagance on full display late last month at places like the new Atlantis, at the tip of one of Dubai’s three man-made, palm-tree shaped island archipelagos, may soon be a thing of the past.

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