Up close a ripe agave looks like a man-size aloe, weighing in at 100 pounds.
On Maui's North Shore, where the trade winds gust past 30 mph most days, windsurfers are developing a new repertoire of jumps and aerobatic maneuvers using man-size kites instead of conventional sails.
In an "Immersion Lab" a few floors above the Business Sphere, employees test out working across time zones on wall-size video screens, and projecting business and social network information on man-size "holopanes" of glass.
Modern hunter-gatherer societies, which are assumed to be similar to those of early man, have a maximum size of 150-180 people.
Goodfellow's unit has so miniaturized the mass screening of such compounds that machines now replicate the countless experiments in pinhead-size droplets--1, 536 tiny wells on envelope-size plates--a process that formerly took humans untold man-hours.
Whitacre Jr. keeps a Texas-size ranch house, five man-made ponds stocked with hungry bass, and a beaten-up bulldozer built in 1955.
In his trademark black cap, Mr Shanibah is a tall, gentle-looking man, nicknamed "Grande" for his size.
Generally, if a man's bag is too small to carry a legal-size document, it starts to look like a murse (though there is some leeway for squared-off iPad carriers).
In a sweltering, claustrophobic chamber the size of a storage closet, a sweat-glazed man in a running top pounds away on a treadmill in the Nike Sports Research Lab in Beaverton, Ore.
Their latest commission - to create a full-size replica of the Spitfire that crashed in front of Mr de Man on 17 March 1945.
The Rhiannon wind farm would be around 19km (12 miles) north-east of Anglesey and cover an area the size of the Isle of Man.
And Taylor knows from his time at the same level with Man City in the 1998-99 season that the pressure will be on for a club of Forest's size.
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