Demographics Lakeside Green Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene. Schools and colleges Having started as a two-year upper division university serving the Miami area FIU has grown into a much larger traditional university and serves international students More than $600 million has been invested in campus construction with the addition of new residence halls the FIU Stadium recreation center student center and Greek life mansions as well as the fielding of the Division I-A Golden Panthers football team in 2002, In 1938 George Washington Carver Sr High opened in Coral Gables for the black residents of the Coconut Grove and Coral Gables area Located there were also its rival schools North Dade Sr High Dorsey Sr High and Mays Sr High, Flagler Street in Downtown Miami. Sloughs or free-flowing channels of water develop in between sawgrass prairies Sloughs are about 3 feet (0.91 m) deeper than sawgrass marshes and may stay flooded for at least 11 months out of the year and sometimes multiple years in a row Aquatic animals such as turtles alligators snakes and fish thrive in sloughs; they usually feed on aquatic invertebrates Submerged and floating plants grow here such as bladderwort (Utricularia) waterlily (Nymphaeaceae) and spatterdock (Nuphar lutea) Major sloughs in the Everglades system include the Shark River Slough flowing out to Florida Bay Lostmans River Slough bordering the Big Cypress and Taylor Slough in the eastern Everglades. The earliest evidence of Native American settlement in the Miami region came from about 12,000 years ago the first inhabitants settled on the banks of the Miami River with the main villages on the northern banks. Early history Lowe Art Museum (University of Miami Coral Gables), 5 Partition proposals - at least 12 more graduate level courses, Sports Contents Exploration. .
; 3.3 Regional centers Miami Herald's Silver Knight award winners, 2.7 Regions Major airports Florida International University has two major campuses in Miami the main campus University Park and its regional campus the Biscayne Bay Campus as well as several branch campuses and research facilities throughout South Florida in Tianjin China and in Nervi and Genoa Italy. Tropical hardwood hammock Florida Atlantic University Barry University (private) On June 27 2005 the popular ex-city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Miami Herald headquarters dropped off a package for columnist Jim DeFede and told the security guard to tell his wife Stephanie he "loved her" before pulling out a gun and committing suicide His suicide happened the day the alternative weekly Miami New Times published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that Teele had sex with a transsexual prostitute and used cocaine At the time Teele was being investigated by federal authorities for fraud and money laundering for allegedly taking $59,000 in kickbacks to help a businessman get millions of dollars in contracts at Miami International Airport Teele was suspended from his job in 2004 by Florida governor Jeb Bush after being arrested for trying to run a police officer off the road Teele was also charged in December 2004 with ten counts of unlawful compensation on charges he took $135,000 from TLMC Inc promising that it would be awarded lucrative contracts to redevelop neighborhoods in Miami Teele was also found guilty in March 2005 for threatening an undercover detective! Invasive species, This nomination program is only open to seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA (unweighted) in public private and parochial schools in 15 categories: Art Athletics Business Digital & Interactive Drama English & Literature General Scholarship Journalism Mathematics Music & Dance Science Social Science Speech Vocational-Technical and World Languages Each school may only nominate one student per category, These are the economic risks explained by Professor Okolo: "This comes from the inability of a country to meet its financial obligations the changing of foreign-investment or/and domestic fiscal or monetary policies the effect of exchange-rate and interest rate make it difficult to conduct international business." Moreover it can be a risk for a company to operate in a country and they may experience an unexpected economic crisis after establishing the subsidiary Economic risks is the likelihood that economic management will cause drastic changes in a country's business environment that hurt the profit and other goals of a business enterprise in practice the biggest problem arising from economic mismanagement has been inflation Historically many governments have expanded their domestic money supplying misguided attempts to stimulate economic activity. The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida's first real estate bubble which burst in 1925 the land boom left behind entire new cities such as Coral Gables Hialeah Miami Springs Opa-locka Miami Shores and Hollywood it also left behind the remains of failed development projects such as Aladdin City in south Miami-Dade County Fulford-by-the-Sea in what is now North Miami Beach Miami's Isola di Lolando in north Biscayne Bay Boca Raton as it had originally been planned and Palm Beach Ocean just north of Palm Beach the land boom shaped Florida's future for decades and created entire new cities out of the Everglades land that remain today the story includes many parallels to the real estate boom of the 2000s including the forces of outside speculators easy credit access for buyers and rapidly appreciating property values.
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