The Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association was formed in 1988 as an expansion team They have won three league championships (in 2006 2012 and 2013) and five conference titles. The Venetian Causeway (left) and MacArthur Causeway (right) connect Downtown and South Beach Miami Beach In December 1979 police officers pursued motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie in a high-speed chase after McDuffie made a provocative gesture towards a police officer the officers claimed that the chase ended when McDuffie crashed his motorcycle and died but the coroner's report concluded otherwise One of the officers testified that McDuffie fell off of his bike on an Interstate 95 on-ramp When the police reached him he was injured but okay the officers removed his helmet beat him to death with their batons put his helmet back on and called an ambulance claiming there had been a motorcycle accident Eula McDuffie the victim's mother said to the Miami Herald a few days later "They beat my son like a dog They beat him just because he was riding a motorcycle and because he was black." a jury acquitted the officers after a brief deliberation! Turtle Pond, The Association of Neuropsychology Students & Trainees (ANST) is the trainee organization of the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology Division 40 of the American Psychological Association the AU Miami Neuropsychology Club is an ANST interest group dedicated to increasing student knowledge and interest in the field of neuropsychology. .
; 2.2 1940s: World War II Contents 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.
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