Chambers of commerce, 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, After Frank Borman became president of Eastern Airlines in 1975 he moved Eastern's headquarters from Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan New York City to an unincorporated area in Miami-Dade County Around 1991 the Miami-Dade County lost a few corporations including Eastern Airlines which folded in 1991. . ! . .
. Coral Way Flagami and West Flagler, What is now Virginia Key was the southern end of a barrier island that extended from the New River inlet in Fort Lauderdale to just north of Key Biscayne Early accounts by Spanish explorers indicated the existence of one or more inlets somewhere on the long spit of land enclosing the northern end of Biscayne Bay but such inlets open and close over time At the beginning of the 19th century there was no inlet through the barrier island between the New River Inlet and Bear Cut at the northern end of Key Biscayne Hurricanes in 1835 and 1838 opened a new inlet Narrows Cut (now known as Norris Cut) separating Virginia Key from what is now Fisher Island at the south end of Miami Beach. In the year ending January 31 2018 the airport had 413,692 aircraft operations average 1,133 per day: 87% scheduled commercial 9% air taxi 4% general aviation and <1% military the budget for operations was $600 million in 2009, West Gondwana (South America and Africa) broke up in the Early Cretaceous to form the South Atlantic the apparent fit between the coastlines of the two continents was noted on the first maps that included the South Atlantic and it was also the subject of the first computer-assisted plate tectonic reconstructions in 1965 This magnificent fit however has since then proven problematic and later reconstructions have introduced various deformation zones along the shorelines to accommodate the northward-propagating break-up Intra-continental rifts and deformations have also been introduced to subdivide both continental plates into sub-plates, Other parks in the Downtown area include:.
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