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11.3 Colleges and universities 1 History The Miami Dolphins play at Hard Rock Stadium in suburban Miami Gardens while the Florida Panthers play in nearby Sunrise at the BB&T Center. FIU students can also study abroad in Paris France via MICEFA, During the mid-2000s the city witnessed its largest real estate boom since the Florida land boom of the 1920s and the city had well over a hundred approved high-rise construction projects However only 50 were actually built Rapid high-rise construction led to fast population growth in the Miami's inner neighborhoods with Downtown Brickell and Edgewater becoming the fastest-growing areas of the city Miami's skyline is ranked third-most impressive in the U.S. behind New York City and Chicago and 19th in the world according to the Almanac of Architecture and Design the city currently has the seven tallest (as well as fifteen of top twenty) skyscrapers in the state of Florida with the tallest being the 868-foot (265 m) Panorama Tower, 2004 47.1% 3,583,544 52.1% 3,964,522! Palm Beach County Park Airport LNA KLNA Palm Beach Florida International University which has its main campus in nearby University Park has the largest enrollment of any university in South Florida and is one of the state's primary research universities, Miami International University of Art & Design (private) Homestead Air Reserve Base east of Homestead in an unincorporated area serves military traffic! 8 Law and government Economy I-95 Parkland 8 External links, Climate data for Miami (MIA) 1981-2010 normals,[a] extremes 1895-present[b]. An elevated ridge rising to an average height of about 1,900 fathoms [3,500 m; 11,400 ft] below the surface traverses the basins of the North and South Atlantic in a meridianal direction from Cape Farewell probably its far south at least as Gough Island following roughly the outlines of the coasts of the Old and the New Worlds, Miami Florida Business directory Sources:. In the early 2000s (decade) emphasis at FIU was placed on growth in degree programs and student enrollment Since 2005 however student enrollment has been capped and emphasis is now being placed on improving the quality of the existing academic programs With the addition of the College of Medicine the demand for facilities and classroom space has greatly increased Future projects and/or buildings under construction include:, 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, Allyson Maynard Gibson 1975 Attorney General of the Bahamas. Photo:Charles Barron / State Library and Archives of Florida, Wet prairies are slightly elevated like sawgrass marshes but with greater plant diversity the surface is covered in water only three to seven months of the year and the water is on average shallow at only 4 inches (10 cm) deep When flooded the marl can support a variety of water plants Solution holes or deep pits where the limestone has worn away may remain flooded even when the prairies are dry and they support aquatic invertebrates such as crayfish and snails and larval amphibians which feed young wading birds These regions tend to border between sloughs and sawgrass marshes. Lamme and Oldakowski identify several demographic political and cultural elements that characterize South Florida and distinguish it from other areas of the state Many of its differences appear to be driven by its proportionately higher level of migration from the northern U.S states and from the Caribbean and Latin America particularly in the densely populated Miami area Politically South Florida is more liberal than the rest of the state While less than 10% of people in either North or Central Florida felt their area was liberal over a third of South Floridians described their region as such 38% characterized the area as conservative; 26% as moderate This tracks with South Florida's demographics and Lamme and Oldakowski's findings parallel Barney Warf and Cynthia Waddell's research on Florida's political geography during the 2000 Presidential election the economy in South Florida is very similar to that in Central Florida Compared to the more diversified economy in North Florida tourism is by far the most significant industry in South and Central Florida with a much smaller but vibrant agricultural industry, 2004 47.1% 3,583,544 52.1% 3,964,522 The land seemed to inspire extreme reactions of both wonder or hatred During the Second Seminole War an army surgeon wrote "It is in fact a most hideous region to live in a perfect paradise for Indians alligators serpents frogs and every other kind of loathsome reptile." in 1897 explorer Hugh Willoughby spent eight days canoeing with a party from the mouth of the Harney River to the Miami River He sent his observations to the New Orleans Times-Democrat Willoughby described the water as healthy and wholesome with numerous springs and 10,000 alligators "more or less" in Lake Okeechobee the party encountered thousands of birds near the Shark River "killing hundreds but they continued to return" Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida writing "(w)e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.".

If you can't find something to do in Florida you're just boring.. Florida has many seaports that serve container ships tank ships and cruise lines Major ports in Florida include Port Tampa Bay in Tampa Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale Port of Jacksonville in Jacksonville PortMiami in Miami Port Canaveral in Brevard County Port Manatee in Manatee County and Port of Palm Beach in Riviera Beach the world's top three busiest cruise ports are found in Florida with PortMiami as the busiest and Port Canaveral and Port Everglades as the second and third busiest Port Tampa Bay meanwhile is the largest in the state having the most tonnage as of 2013 Port Tampa Bay ranks 16th in the United States by tonnage in domestic trade 32nd in foreign trade and 22nd in total trade It is the largest most diversified port in Florida has an economic impact of more than $15.1 billion and supports over 80,000 jobs! Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Migrants to the region who wanted to develop plantations first proposed draining the Everglades in 1848 but no work of this type was attempted until 1882 Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century and spurred the South Florida economy prompting land development in 1947 Congress formed the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project which built 1,400 miles (2,300 km) of canals levees and water control devices the Miami metropolitan area grew substantially at this time and Everglades water was diverted to cities Portions of the Everglades were transformed into farmland where the primary crop was sugarcane Approximately 50 percent of the original Everglades has been developed as agricultural or urban areas, Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year 3.2 2000 U.S Census $356.93 per credit hour for in-state students and $793.87 per credit hour for out-of-state students.Total tuition/fees :$11,098 for in-state and $24,206 for out of state; A cortadito is a popular espresso beverage found in cafeterias around Miami It is particularly popular for breakfast or in the afternoon with a pastelito, Top private employers Airboating has become a popular ecotourism attraction in the Everglades. Retail The first floor has numerous classrooms auditorium spaces and support services for students such as tutoring the writing center and technology assistance Also on the first floor is a snack stop and a Starbucks the second floor has the reference section cartography (GIS Center) circulation and numerous computer and printing labs the third floor is the home of the Medical Library and includes study lounges as well as a resource center for students of the Honors College the fourth floor houses the special collections department and university archives the fifth floor is the home of the School of Architecture Library as well as the music and audiovisual collections the sixth and seventh floors are strictly quiet floors and contain the general book collection plus numerous student study lounges the eighth floor contains the library's administration offices and technical services departments! 5.1 Personal income 6 See also Golden Beach, In 1497 John Cabot became the first Western European since the Vikings to explore mainland North America and one of his major discoveries was the abundant resources of Atlantic cod off Newfoundland Referred to as "Newfoundland Currency" this discovery yielded some 200 million tons of fish over five centuries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries new fisheries started to exploit haddock mackerel and lobster From the 1950s to the 1970s the introduction of European and Asian distant-water fleets in the area dramatically increased the fishing capacity and number of exploited species it also expanded the exploited areas from near-shore to the open sea and to great depths to include deep-water species such as redfish Greenland halibut witch flounder and grenadiers Overfishing in the area was recognised as early as the 1960s but because this was occurring on international waters it took until the late 1970s before any attempts to regulate was made in the early 1990s this finally resulted in the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery the population of a number of deep-sea fishes also collapsed in the process including American plaice redfish and Greenland halibut together with flounder and grenadier. Concourse G is the only one of the original 1959 concourses that has largely remained in its original state save for the modifications the rest of the airport received in the mid-1960s and an extension in the early 1970s It is the only concourse at the airport incapable of handling international arrivals the airport authority plans to maintain the concourse until 2025, Germany Germany From 1952 to 1964 most voters were registered Democrats but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for 1964 the following year Congress passed and President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement of constitutional voting rights for African Americans and other minorities in order to prevent the discrimination and disenfranchisement that had excluded most of them for decades from the political process. New River Francis X Suarez Mayor of the City of Miami.