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2.3 Rock 18 References The Graham Center FIU's student union Over 3.5 million people walk through the Graham Center every year making it the heart of student life at FIU, Greater Miami is served by several English-language and two major Spanish-language daily newspapers the Miami Herald headquartered in Downtown Miami is Miami's primary newspaper with over a million readers it also has news bureaus in Broward County Monroe County and Nassau Bahamas the South Florida Sun-Sentinel circulates primarily in Broward and southern Palm Beach counties and also has a news bureau in Havana Cuba the Palm Beach Post serves mainly Palm Beach County especially the central and northern regions and the Treasure Coast the Boca Raton News publishes five days a week and circulates in southern Palm Beach County El Nuevo Herald a subsidiary of the Miami Herald and Diario Las Americas are Spanish-language daily papers that circulate mainly in Miami-Dade County La Palma and El Sentinel are weekly Spanish newspapers published by the Palm Beach Post and Sun-Sentinel respectively and circulate in the same areas as their English-language counterparts. 11.1 Sources Florida leads the United States in tornadoes per area (when including waterspouts) but they do not typically reach the intensity of those in the Midwest and Great Plains Hail often accompanies the most severe thunderstorms, Traditional rivals of the FIU Panthers include Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami the Panthers football team competes in the annual Shula Bowl a yearly football game played for the Don Shula Award against in-state rival Florida Atlantic University Due to this competition in the Shula Bowl the rivalry between the two schools has grown with the rivalry extending into the men's baseball and basketball teams as well. Hurricane season officially runs from June 1 through November 30 although hurricanes can develop outside that period the most likely time for South Florida to be hit is during the peak of the Cape Verde season mid-August through the end of September Due to its location between two major bodies of water known for tropical activity South Florida is also statistically the most likely major area to be struck by a hurricane in the world trailed closely by Nassau Bahamas and Havana Cuba Many hurricanes have affected the metropolis including Betsy in 1965 Andrew in 1992 Irene in 1999 Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005 and Irma in 2017 in addition a tropical depression in October 2000 passed over the city causing record rainfall and flooding Locally the storm is credited as the No Name Storm of 2000 though the depression went on to become Tropical Storm Leslie upon entering the Atlantic Ocean! 2.1 Central business district ("downtown") Reform 152 0.06% Old and New Florida State Capitol Tallahassee East view Hydrology. .

Fluctuating sea levels compressed numerous layers of calcium carbonate sand and shells the resulting permeable limestone formations that developed between 25 million and 70 million years ago created the Floridan Aquifer which serves as the main source of fresh water for the northern portion of Florida However this aquifer lies beneath thousands of feet of impermeable sedimentary rock from Lake Okeechobee to the southern tip of the peninsula. . Barry University has more than 60 student organizations two fraternities and one sorority honor societies and a student government, Means of businesses Neighborhoods A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades 1966. On July 27 2005 former Miami city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Herald's headquarters and phoned Herald columnist Jim DeFede (one of several telephone conversations that the two had had during the day) to say that he had a package for DeFede He then asked a security officer to tell his (Teele's) wife Stephanie that he loved her before pulling out a gun and committing suicide This happened the day the Miami New Times a weekly newspaper published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that he had had sex and used cocaine with a transsexual prostitute, The Everglades are a complex system of interdependent ecosystems Marjory Stoneman Douglas described the area as a "River of Grass" in 1947 though that metaphor represents only a portion of the system the area recognized as the Everglades prior to drainage was a web of marshes and prairies 4,000 square miles (10,000 km2) in size Borders between ecosystems are subtle or imperceptible These systems shift grow and shrink die or reappear within years or decades Geologic factors climate and the frequency of fire help to create maintain or replace the ecosystems in the Everglades. . . Temple Israel of Greater Miami Miami International Airport 7 Health See also: List of mayors of Miami. An understanding helps one decide what governmental policies to support Downtown is home to many city county state and federal courthouses jails judge offices and law firms Some of the courthouses in Downtown are the Dade County Family Court U.S Court of Appeals Judge U.S District Court Clerk Miami-Dade County Courthouse Federal Courthouse U.S Magistrate Judge City of Miami courthouses and many others.