What *is* the UAE?

It was 2004 and Chrissy and I were newly minted college grads living in our first apartment in San Francisco's Lower Haight. These were the questions on our minds:

• What is the best flavor of Annie's Mac & Cheese?
  
• Why is J.Crew's website so bad?
  
• Is it worth getting a Fast Pass if I walk home from work some days? (A bus ride was only $1.25 then and the passes were $45.)
• Is it possible to subsist on only pretzels, salsa, pita, and hummus? (And the yellow curry from the cheap Thai place?)
• Should your landlord pay for plumbing?
  
• What is the UAE?

Is it a country? A city? A region? Is it like OPEC? Well, come October 2007, not only do we know what the UAE is, but Chrissy is working in Dubai and Eliot and I have already visited.

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At least we got one question answered.