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Brickbat: Barely There

Charles Oliver | 4.30.2013 7:27 AM

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Officials in Ras al-Khaimah, one of the United Arab Emirates, have banned women from wearing bikinis and men from wearing small trunks on its beaches. Those caught violating the ban will be fined.

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