Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from the Kennedy Space Center Miami Florida Business directory Miami's Brickell neighborhood is amongst the fastest-growing areas of Miami-Dade County[citation needed]. (19.4) Admissions Julia Tuttle the founder of Miami Class of 1977 In conjunction with the Office of Alumni Relations the Division of External Affairs publishes a quarterly news and alumni magazine "FIU Magazine" FIU Magazine is distributed free of charge to all FIU alumni faculty and donors. 11 External links (23.3) 78.2 4.5% Haitian Colleges and universities Growth as a global city Concourse F The Interfraternity Council (IFC) comprises 13 fraternities the Panhellenic Council (PC) is made up of 7 sororities the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) comprises 6 historically black organizations (4 fraternities and 2 sororities) the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC) consists of 9 cultural organizations for Latinos Asians and South Asians (5 fraternities and 4 sororities). . . Cargo As part of the North Terminal Development project Concourse C closed on September 1 2009 and was demolished the demolition of Concourse C allowed for the construction of new gates where the concourse stood.

- Dissertation Miami-Dade County Public Schools is one of a few public school districts in the United States to offer optional international studies programs and bilingual education Bilingual education is offered in Spanish French German Haitian Creole and Mandarin Chinese M-DCPS is the only school district in Florida to offer bilingual education in Mandarin. Club Sport League Venue (Capacity) Attendance League Championships In 1986 the district started the first International Studies Magnet Program at Sunset Elementary School one of the first such programs in the U.S This program won the prestigious 2008 Goldman Sachs Prize for Excellence in International Education it focuses on implementing a challenging curriculum in Spanish French and German in addition to English This challenging world language curriculum is fully accredited by the governments of Spain France and Germany and is implemented through comprehensive agreements between the Ministries of Education of the partner countries and Miami-Dade County Public Schools the district through the International Studies Magnet Program at Sunset Elementary School started to produce bicultural bilingual and biliterate students in English and their choice of Spanish French or German, 2.1 Tuition List of songs about Miami. . Islandia Miami's heavy-rail rapid transit system Metrorail is an elevated system comprising two lines and 23 stations on a 24.4-mile (39.3 km)-long line Metrorail connects the urban western suburbs of Hialeah Medley and inner-city Miami with suburban the Roads Coconut Grove Coral Gables South Miami and urban Kendall via the central business districts of Miami International Airport the Civic Center and Downtown a free elevated people mover Metromover operates 21 stations on three different lines in greater Downtown Miami with a station at roughly every two blocks of Downtown and Brickell Several expansion projects are being funded by a transit development sales tax surcharge throughout Miami-Dade County. The Port Miami Tunnel connecting Watson Island to PortMiami on Dodge Island which cost $700 million was opened in 2014. 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.", raising awareness of the inter-relatedness of one country's political policies and economic practices on another.