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Looking up at fireworks over Creek Park, set to a certain Beethoven symphony, Thura Ghanim Abdullah, 45, had tears rolling down.

DUBAI — Looking up at fireworks over Creek Park, set to a certain Beethoven symphony, Thura Ghanim Abdullah, 45, had tears rolling down.

Midnight on December 31st, with spectacular fireworks lighting up the sky above the crowds at the Burj Khalifa, Mohammed Al Tantawi, 22, a Jordanian national was bent over his workstation, scraping an angular, glue-tipped needle against the insides of a glass bottle. The glue-tipped needle works like a pen.

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