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Man, town, Côte d'Ivoire

Man, town (1996 est. pop. 112,600), W central Côte d'Ivoire, at the foot of the Toura Mts. It is an administrative and commercial center for a region producing coffee, cacao, kola nuts, rice, and cassava. Iron ore, bauxite, copper, and gold are mined nearby.

man, in anthropology and biology

man: see anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture .
..... Click the link for more information. ; human evolution human evolution, theory of the origins of the human species, Homo sapiens. Modern understanding of human origins is derived largely from the findings of paleontology , anthropology , and genetics , and involves the process of natural selection (see Darwinism ).
..... Click the link for more information. ; race race, one of the group of populations regarded as constituting humanity. The differences that have historically determined the classification into races are predominantly physical aspects of appearance that are generally hereditary.
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(Metropolitan Area Network) A communications network that covers a geographic area such as a city or suburb. See LAN and WAN.

Man
o’ War (“Big Red”) famous racehorse foaled at Belmont Stables. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 421]
See : Horse
1.MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
2.man - Unix manual page


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Similarly, he makes straw men of Arthur Waldron (The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth [Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990]) and of Allen Whiting (The Chinese Calculus of Deterrence: India and Indochina [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975]), depicting their views of the Chinese as one-dimensionally peace loving and loath to use force.
China's Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long ... by Jencks, Harlan W. / Pacific Affairs
It helps here that Lamin Sanneh does not set up straw men.
Secular option may not be so foreign after all by Baker, Gordon / Anglican Journal
Dutton as a wise old trainer, Tim Daly as a TV sports reporter) and an opposing team of glass-jawed straw men (Joe Cortese as her chauvinist pig boss, Tony Shalhoub as a mobbed-up rival promoter).
'AGAINST THE ROPES' NOT EVEN FIT FOR DON KING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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