BB&T Center home of the Florida Panthers ARWU 401-500 1.1 16th to 18th centuries: Early Spanish settlement, The Miami area is a diverse community with a large proportion of foreign-born residents in large part due to its proximity to Latin America and the Caribbean. . Study abroad Superintendent of schools After the Second Seminole War ended in 1842 Fitzpatrick's nephew William English re-established the plantation in Miami He charted the "Village of Miami" on the south bank of the Miami River and sold several plots of land When English died in California in 1852 his plantation died with him! U.S Decennial Census, The clockwise warm-water North Atlantic Gyre occupies the northern Atlantic and the counter-clockwise warm-water South Atlantic Gyre appears in the southern Atlantic. Wertheim Conservatory 1991 Metrorail maintenance facility, Names Miami Culinary Institute (public), Following this period of rapid development and environmental degradation the ecosystem began to receive notable attention from conservation groups in the 1970s Internationally UNESCO and the Ramsar Convention designated the Everglades a Wetland Area of Global Importance the construction of a large airport 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park was blocked when an environmental study found that it would severely damage the South Florida ecosystem With heightened awareness and appreciation of the region restoration began in the 1980s with the removal of a canal that had straightened the Kissimmee River However development and sustainability concerns have remained pertinent in the region the deterioration of the Everglades including poor water quality in Lake Okeechobee was linked to the diminishing quality of life in South Florida's urban areas in 2000 the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was approved by Congress to combat these problems to date,[when?] it is the most expensive and comprehensive environmental restoration attempt in history but its implementation has faced political complications! . Other Races: 3.2% (0.6% Arab) During Maidique's tenure the university added 22 new doctoral programs Research expenditures grew from about $6 million to nearly $110 million as defined by the National Science Foundation in 2000 FIU attained the highest ranking in the Carnegie Foundation classification system that of "Doctoral/Research University-Extensive." FIU's faculty has engaged in research and holds far-reaching expertise in reducing morbidity and mortality from cancer HIV/AIDS substance abuse diabetes and other diseases and change the approaches to the delivery of health care by medical public health nursing and other healthcare professionals hurricane mitigation climate change nano-technologies forensic sciences and the development of biomedical devices. Native American[note 1] <1% 0.6% 1.4% Global concentration: many MNEs share and overlap markets with a limited number of other corporations in the same industry.
The Financial Times (2008) ranks the Executive MBA in the top 85 MBA programs in the world and in the top 35 among U.S Executive MBAs. . Further information: Transportation in South Florida Miami Florida Business directory Opa-Locka Executive Northeast Florida University College University of Florida 7.2 Old World. (19.8) 73.1 In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation. . . .
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