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International Info:
United Arab Emirates
• The United Arab Emirates (UAE) son, the U.S. is ranked 12th with
is located on the southwestern an Human Development Index
part of the Arabian Peninsula, of 0.951. The HDI takes into ac-
bordering Oman, Saudi Arabia, count such factors as life expec-
and the Persian Gulf. tancy, education, literacy, and
overall standards of living.
• The UAE is made up of seven
states: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, • Part of the reason for the UAE’s
Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharja, relatively high standard of living
and Umm al-Quwain. is its booming economy. Much of
the country’s revenue comes
• Abu Dhabi is the capital of the
from oil, but in
UAE. The
recent decades
UAE’s largest
tourism has also
city is Dubai,
been a significant
with a popu-
part of the econ-
l a ti o n of
omy, especially
about 1.1
since the construc-
million.
Flag of the United Arab Emirates tion boom.
• Recently, the
• The UAE is
UAE has had
about 86,600 sq km (about 32,280
a number of high-profile con-
sq mi) in area—about the size of
struction projects, especially in
South Carolina.
Dubai. In addition to numerous
skyscrapers, two completed pro- • Each of the states of the United
jects include the Burj Al Arab— Arab Emirates is called an emirate
the world’s tallest hotel—and the because it is ruled by a hereditary
Mall of the Emirates, which con- ruler called an emir.
tains the first indoor ski slope in • Together, the seven emirs make
the Middle East. up the Federal Supreme Council
• A building project currently under (FSC). The FSC elects the presi-
construction is The World, a dent and vice president. The
group of about 300 artificial is- UAE also has a prime minister
lands designed to form a world and deputy prime minister, both
map off the coast of Dubai. of whom are appointed by the
president.
• As of 2005, the most recent year
for which statistics are available, • The UAE’s Federal National
the United Nations calculated the Council—a legislative house simi-
UAE’s Human Development In- lar to a congress or parliament—
dex (HDI) to be 0.868 on a scale is comprised of 20 members ap-
from 0 (worst) to 1 (best)—39th
highest in the world. By compari-
pointed by the emirs and 20 who
are elected to two-year terms.
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By the Numbers: 2
IMAGE: MS
Before that, he was Edwin
Eugene Aldrin, Jr., and “Buzz”
was just a nickname.
• The second President of the
United States was John Adams.
He was also the first Vice Presi-
dent, so his wife Abigail Adams
• Two is the smallest number that it was both the second First Lady
is possible to roll on a pair of and the first Second Lady.
standard dice. Rolling two is
sometimes called “snake eyes” • The Second Amendment to the
because the single dot on each die United States Constitution reads,
resembles a pair of eyes (see pic- A well regulated mili-
ture above). The odds of rolling tia being necessary to
snake eyes are one in thirty-six. the security of a free
• In the United States, approxi- State, the right of the
mately 3.1% of births are twins. People to keep and
Only about 8% of those—or bear arms shall not be
about one in 400 births overall— infringed.
are identical twins that come • The second-highest mountain in
from one fertilized egg that split; the world even has “2” in its
the other 92% of twins are frater- name: It is K2 in the Himalayas.
nal twins, who come from sepa- K2 is 8,611m (28,251 ft) high,
rate eggs and are genetically no compared to Everest’s 8,850m
more alike that any other siblings. (29,035 ft).
• Two is the identification code • Two is the smallest prime number
number of high-density polyethyl- and the only one that is even
ene (HDPE), the kind of plastic (since all other even numbers are
commonly used to make milk divisible by two).
jugs, soda and water bottles, and
• Computers use a base two, or bi-
plastic bags. HDPE is one of the
nary, number system. This means
most commonly recycled forms
that they use numbers with only
of plastic.
two different digits, 0 and 1.
• Most people know that the first
• A playing card with the number
person on the Moon was Neil
two on it is often called a
Armstrong. The second was Buzz
“deuce.” The term comes from
Aldrin. “Buzz,” by the way, has
the Latin duos meaning—you
been his legal name since 1988.
guessed it—“two.”
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