With 67 berths and extensive dry-dock facilities, it is the largest man-made port in the world and the largest port in the Gulf region and in the Middle East.
Panama's famous canal links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the UAE is home to the Jebel Ali port -- the biggest in the Middle East and the largest man-made harbor in the world.
Both offer remote, sparsely populated areas with low levels of man-made radio interference, along with world-class teams of astronomers.
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The outdoor climbing frame, built by the army, is the largest man-made structure for apes in the world, and will encourage the chimpanzees' natural curiosity and intelligence.
The man-made hill, part of the Avebury World Heritage site, was believed to have taken many centuries to build.
Partly it's the way of the world, because no man-made NFC or RFID security barrier can ever be truly impervious.
Into its Luxembourg-sized patch of beach and desert, Dubai has already packed such attractions as the world's largest man-made port, its tallest and most luxurious hotel, its most capacious-ever shopping bag (certified by Guinness), and some of the flashiest events on funsters' racing and golfing calendars.
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When you travel ethically, treading carefully, you bear witness to how our world, both natural and man-made, is truly beyond imagination.
We recognized then that hunting down and gathering up the world's treasures, man-made and natural, is among the richest mediums there are in which to turn money into experience.
That, and answer for the tragic man-made disaster to the citizens of the Gulf and the world.
And this nation is leading the world in confronting and defeating the man-made evil of international terrorism.
Construction is underway, for example, on the World, a grouping of 300 man-made islands shaped to resemble the earth.
Located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, is a world first: a series of man-made tunnels 2, 150 feet underground, designed to accommodate radioactive waste.
The 86-year-old Mitchell, the son of a Greek immigrant, father of ten, and self-made man, ranks as the 347th richest man in the world.
In addition to the world's biggest airport, largest man-made islands, longest indoor ski slope and some of the biggest shopping malls and hotels anywhere, it is also building a mega theme park, Dubailand, which consists of some 45 separate projects, including such brand-name attractions as Legoland, a Tiger Woods golf course, a Six Flags fun fair, a Formula One park, and themed attractions from DreamWorks (a Hollywood film studio) and Marvel Comics.
In Iron Man 3, Tony is obsessed with being Iron Man and building Iron Man armor, because confronting death and a world-threatening menace has made him perpetually fearful of the danger to Pepper Potts.
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This flies in the face of natural seeps which, the world over, are many times the volume of any man-made leaks.
And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.
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After all, what do pre-industrial world temperature trends have anything to tell us about the effect of man-made Co2 on 20th century temperatures?
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