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; 1960 48.5% 748,700 51.5% 795,476 Lauderdale Lakes Fortune Small Business recognized the college as among the best in the United States for entrepreneurship in its listing of "America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs," (August 2007) in the "Cross-Disciplinary/Cross Pollination" category. . ; Miami Florida Business directory, I-195.svg Interstate 195 / Toll Florida 112.svg State Road 112 (Airport Expressway). Throughout the 1980s the school district was recognized for expertly assimilating wave after wave of new immigrants particularly children from Nicaragua and Haiti and from Cuba's Mariel Boatlift it was highly regarded for its handling of displaced students after the 1982 Miami riot in which 14 schools were badly damaged due to fire and vandalism.[citation needed] the Haitian students who came during the 1980s and 1990s were mostly low income and high school-aged students generally attended Miami Edison High School. . Ziff Education Building 1995, $506.77 per credit hour for in-state students and $851.40 per credit hour for out-of-state students Total tuition/fees:$15,593 for in-state and $25,932 for out of state, The Brickell Financial District in Miami contains the largest concentration of international banks in the United States.

An embryonic subduction margin is potentially developing west of Gibraltar the Gibraltar Arc in the western Mediterranean is migrating westward into the Central Atlantic where it joins the converging African and Eurasian plates Together these three tectonic forces are slowly developing into a new subduction system in the eastern Atlantic Basin Meanwhile the Scotia Arc and Caribbean Plate in the western Atlantic Basin are eastward-propagating subduction systems that might together with the Gibraltar system represent the beginning of the closure of the Atlantic Ocean and the final stage of the Atlantic Wilson cycle, 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. . . (29.6) Jacksonville metropolitan area The story of Florida International University's founding began in 1943 when state Senator Ernest 'Cap' Graham (father of future Florida governor and U.S senator Bob Graham) presented the state legislature with the initial proposal for the establishment of a public university in South Florida While his bill did not pass Graham persisted in presenting his proposal to colleagues advising them of Miami's need for a state university He felt the establishment of a public university was necessary to serve the city's growing population. . The Atlantic harbors petroleum and gas fields fish marine mammals (seals and whales) sand and gravel aggregates placer deposits polymetallic nodules and precious stones Gold deposits are a mile or two under water on the ocean floor however the deposits are also encased in rock that must be mined through Currently there is no cost-effective way to mine or extract gold from the ocean to make a profit, With the railroad under construction activity in Miami began to pick up Men from throughout Florida flocked to Miami to await Flagler's call for workers of all qualifications to begin work on the promised hotel and city by late December 1895 seventy-five of them already were at work clearing the site for the hotel They lived mostly in tents and huts in the wilderness which had no streets and few cleared paths Many of these men were victims of the freeze which had left both money and work scarce. Frost Art Museum 1977 (new building: 2007), A satellite image of the Everglades taken in March 2019. According to the U.S Census Bureau in 2012 Miami had the fourth highest percentage of family incomes below the federal poverty line out of all large cities in the United States behind Detroit Michigan Cleveland Ohio and Cincinnati Ohio respectively Miami is also one of the very few cities in the U.S where the local government has gone bankrupt in 2001 on the other hand Miami has won accolades for its environmental policies: in 2008 it was ranked as "America's Cleanest City" according to Forbes for its year-round good air quality vast green spaces clean drinking water clean streets and citywide recycling programs.