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This has become attractive since the 1990s, especially since more traditional spring break places such as Daytona Beach, Florida have become restrictive on drinking and other behaviors.
The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.
He apparently stayed with several other hijackers in Paterson, New Jersey, before moving to his own place at 4032 57th Terrace, Vero Beach, Florida.
He may have been one of three hijackers that listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida as their permanent address on drivers ' licenses, though other sources claim he listed the Delray condominium.
Five other suspected hijackers also received duplicate Florida licenses in 2001, and others had licenses from different states.
This led to disappointment in Britain, as many believed that Florida was a poor return for Cuba and Britain's other gains in the war.
There are introduced populations in Australia, Florida, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ogasawara, Ishigaki Island and the Daitō Islands of Japan, most Caribbean islands, Fiji and many other Pacific islands, including Hawaii.
However, the toad gained a foothold in the state after an accidental release by an importer at Miami International Airport in 1957, and deliberate releases by animal dealers in 1963 and 1964 established the toad in other parts of Florida.
The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Montreal ’ s La Presse, The Gazette, the Florida Times Union, the Indianapolis Star, the Providence Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Brisbane Courier-Mail, the Windsor Star, The Economic Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications, run the comic in their business section rather than in the regular comics section, similar to the way in which Doonesbury is often carried in the editorial section due to its pointed commentary.
Two other groups, one at the University of Florida and another at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted independent clinical trials with similar results.
He was in high demand as a lecturer, and was frequently invited to lecture at conferences and as a guest lecturer at other universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Dalhousie, Wellesley, Florida State, the Universities of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, and Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston Harbor.
He appeared as himself in the first of several Crystal Champions movie shorts featuring Weissmuller and other Olympic champions at Silver Springs, Florida.
The entire state averages over 60 days of thunderstorms a year, more than any other state except Florida.
" He attended St. Leo College Preparatory School in St. Leo, Florida after being expelled from several other schools for bad behavior.
:" Hurricanes, cold stress, red tide poisoning and a variety of other maladies threaten manatees, but by far their greatest danger is from watercraft strikes, which account for about a quarter of Florida manatee deaths ," said study curator John Jett.
This was first time Tampa hosted the game, making it the first Super Bowl to be played in Florida in a city other than Miami.
In Graham v. Florida, 560 U. S. ___ ( 2010 ), the Supreme Court declared that a life sentence without any chance of parole, for a crime other than murder, is cruel and unusual punishment for a minor.
One daily train was extended to San José ( 96 km from Montevideo ) on January 15, 2007, and other was extended from 25 de Agosto to Florida ( 109 km from Montevideo ) on January 2, 2008.
On the other side of the world in 1983, Howard Jacobs created several wakeboards by mounting windsurfing foot straps and partial hydroslide pads on some smaller surfboards that he had shaped ; by 1984, he was throwing backflips on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.
Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, approximately southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels ( excluding eight more that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company ), including a campground, two spas and physical fitness centers, five golf courses, and other recreational venues and entertainment.
In 2001, it was reported that employees of the Memorial Gardens cemetery near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida had oversold the cemetery, so bodies were buried in the wrong places, separating husbands from wives ; vaults were cracked open by a backhoe ; bodies were exhumed, with bones, skulls and shrouds thrown into nearby woods ; bodies were stacked on top of each other ; and remains were relocated without notifying relatives.
With support of the National Science Foundation, LANL operates one of the three National High Magnetic Field Laboratories in conjunction with and located at two other sites Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Florida and Creative
* The Creative Class developed by Richard Florida
In his 2002 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, economist Richard Florida popularized the notion that regions with " 3 T's of economic development: Technology, Talent and Tolerance " also have high concentrations of creative professionals and tend to have a higher level of economic development.
He is a professor in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program of the English Department at Florida International University.
He returned to University of Florida in 1968 not as a student, but as a member of the faculty in Creative Writing.
He is a professor in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program of the English Department at Florida International University.
The Mamalukes regained the championship on the following day in Leipzig, and held it until March 19, when they lost to Creative Control in a no disqualification match at the pay-per-view Uncensored, which took place in the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Florida.
The show was created and manufactured by noted inventor Aaron Fechter, through his company Creative Engineering, Inc. in Orlando, Florida ; in addition to overseeing the production of the animatronics, Fechter also provided the voices for several characters.
Production of the programming and audio for the show was done in-house by Creative Engineering, Inc. in Orlando, Florida.
In July 2007, the paper and its sibling, Washington City Paper, were sold to Creative Loafing, publisher of alternative weeklies in Atlanta, Georgia ; Charlotte, North Carolina ; and Tampa and Sarasota, Florida.
The Creative Class is a socioeconomic class that economist and social scientist Richard Florida, a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, identifies as a key driving force for economic development of post-industrial cities in the United States.
Florida describes the Creative Class as comprising 40 million workers — 30 percent of the U. S. workforce — and breaks the class into two broad sections, derived from Standard Occupational Classification System codes:
In his 2002 study, Florida concluded that the Creative Class would be the leading force of growth in the economy expected to grow by over 10 million jobs in the next decade, which would now be the present day ( 2012 ) and equal almost 40 % of the current population.
Florida argues that the Creative Class is socially relevant because of its members ' ability to spur regional economic growth through innovation ( 2002 ).
Florida says that the Creative Class is a class of workers whose job is to create meaningful new forms ( 2002 ).
Another sector of the Creative Class includes positions that are knowledge intensive ; these usually require a high degree of formal education ( Florida, 2002 ).
Independence is also highly regarded among the Creative Class and expected in the workplace ( Florida, 2002 ).
In Cities and the Creative Class, Florida devotes several chapters to discussion of the three main prerequisites of creative cities ( though there are many additional qualities which distinguish creative magnets ).
In Rise of the Creative Class, Florida argues that members of the Creative Class value meritocracy, diversity and individuality, and look for these characteristics when they relocate ( 2002 ).
As Florida demonstrates in his books, Buffalo, New Orleans and Louisville are examples of cities which have tried to attract the Creative Class but, in comparison to cities which better exemplify the " three ' T's ", have failed.
The “ Creativity Index ” is another tool that Florida uses to describe how members of the Creative Class are attracted to a city.
Florida and others have found a strong correlation between those cities and states that provide a more tolerant atmosphere toward culturally unconventional people, such as gays, artists, and musicians ( exemplified by Florida's " Gay Index " and " Bohemian Index " developed in The Rise of the Creative Class ), and the numbers of Creative Class workers that live and move there ( 2002 ).

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