Dr. Wilson C. Grant, of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, and the University of Miami School of Medicine, set out to discover if avocados, because of their high content of unsaturated fatty acids, would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients.

* Anti-Somozistas who had supported the revolution but felt betrayed by the Sandinista government – e. g. Edgar Chamorro, prominent member of the political directorate of the FDN, or Jose Francisco Cardenal, who had briefly served in the Council of State before leaving Nicaragua out of disagreement with the Sandinista government's policies and founding the Nicaraguan Democratic Union ( UDN ), an opposition group of Nicaraguan exiles in Miami.

In 1797, Daniel C. Cooper had laid out the Mad River Road, the first overland connection between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dayton, opening the " Mad River Country " at Dayton and the upper Miami Valley to settlement.

In November, 2004, the University of Miami School of Law carried out a Human Rights Investigation in Haiti and documented serious human rights abuses.

It was initially popularized circa 1984 in discothèques catering to gay and mixed, primarily African-American and Latino audiences in Chicago, but beginning in 1985, fanned out to other major cities such as Detroit, Toronto, New York City, Boston, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, London, and Paris.

The following season they edged out Miami by posting a 9 – 7 record and winning the ordinarily meaningless 3rd place position, but qualifying for the wild card.

The last meaningful matchup between the two franchises would be in the 2000 season, when Miami edged out Indianapolis with an 11 – 5 record for the division championship.

While the Orange Bowl was sold out for the game, unconditional blackout rules in the NFL prevented the live telecast from being shown in the Miami area.

Although the Orange Bowl was sold out for the event, unconditional blackout rules in the NFL prohibited the live telecast from being shown in the Miami area.

Later, Miami shut out the defending Super Bowl champion Baltimore Colts, 21 – 0, in the AFC Championship Game, with safety Dick Anderson intercepting 3 passes from Colts quarterback Johnny Unitas and returning one of them for a 62-yard touchdown.

Unfortunately for Miami, the ball slipped out of his hands and went straight up in the air.

Miami got the ball back at their 10-yard line with 6: 24 left in the game, and Csonka and Kiick then ran out the clock.

However, Blackwood's interception turned out to be somewhat beneficial for the Redskins, as it pinned Miami back at their own 1.

The loss caused the Bills to finish with an 11-5 record, losing out on the AFC East title to the Miami Dolphins based on tie-breaking rules, and thus making them a wild card team for the playoffs.

While filming in the Broward County Courthouse used as the set for the Miami Courthouse, director Fosse decided to cast a real-life bailiff in the role of the bailiff who drags Dustin Hoffman ( Lenny ) out of the courtroom.

Since entering the league, Miami has fielded squads that have made the playoffs 16 out of 24 seasons, capturing nine division titles, three Eastern Conference Championships, and two NBA Championships, defeating the Dallas Mavericks 4 – 2 in the 2006 NBA Finals and the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 – 1 in the 2012 NBA Finals.

Upon Smith's return, Miami posted a winning record in February and March, but it was not enough to dig themselves out of the 13 – 27 hole they began in.

After losing out to the Orlando Magic to get Toronto Raptors swingman Tracy McGrady, Miami decided to trade Brown and Mashburn to the Charlotte Hornets ( among others ) in exchange for Eddie Jones, Anthony Mason and Ricky Davis.

Charlotte took the first two games in Miami by 26 each, before closing out the series on their home floor by 15.

Miami supposedly missed out on potentially selecting Yao Ming by one ping-pong ball during the draft lottery.

Miami also signed Udonis Haslem out of the University of Florida, who went undrafted a season earlier.

With Wade out, the Heat lost 91 – 66 in Game 6 at Detroit, setting up Game 7 in Miami.

Penniless, freezing cold, and in a rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job in a women's band headed to Miami.

This school is based out of Miami, Florida.

The more familiar triangular boundary in most written works has as its points somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Miami ; San Juan, Puerto Rico ; and the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda, with most of the accidents concentrated along the southern boundary around the Bahamas and the Florida Straits.

In 1964 the Company opened its new U. S. headquarters in Miami, Florida.

Bacardi vacated its former headquarter buildings on Biscayne Boulevard in Midtown Miami.

Another example is " Meeya Meefla ", the only city to have preserved its name from the pre-atomic era: evidently Miami, Florida, from its abbreviated form ( as on road signs ) " MIAMI FLA ".

For the first 19 years of its existence, the team played its home games at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens.

In 1964, he became the first dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami in 1964, the first school of its kind in the country, dedicated to space-age research.

In 2005, a similar ad campaign was launched by Sony and executed by TATS CRU in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami to market its handheld PSP gaming system.

Baltimore's post NFL-AFL merger passage to the AFC saw them thrust into a new environment with little in common with its fellow divisional teams, the Jets, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, and Boston Patriots.

Yet in 1971 the teams were engaged in a heated race that went down to the final week of the season, where Miami won its first division title with a 10 – 3 – 1 title compared to the 10 – 4 Baltimore record after the Colts won the Week 13 matchup between them at home, but proceeded to lose the last game of the season to Boston.

Similarly, the movement has spread to Puerto Rico, a country where many of its residents have moved to New York, Miami and Chicago over the years.

The first professional football team in Miami, and in the state of Florida, were the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) during its inaugural 1946 season.

Robbie had originally wanted to establish the franchise in Philadelphia, but AFL commissioner Joe Foss suggested courting Miami due to its warm climate, growing population, and lack of a football team.

The farthest advance Miami had in the third quarter was to its own 42-yard line as Griese and the offense were, said Shula, " destroyed.

The Redskins were forced to use up all of their timeouts on the Dolphins ' ensuing five-play possession, but forced Miami to punt ( nearly blocking the punt ) from its own 36-yard line with 1: 14 remaining in the game, giving themselves a chance to drive for the tying touchdown.

The Dolphins wear white jerseys at home typically for day games, but due to a ( since changed ) uniform policy, the Dolphins were obligated to wear their aqua jerseys as the designated home team, although Miami wore its aqua jerseys for its final regular season home game ( on a Saturday afternoon ) that season vs. the Detroit Lions.

Toledo grew quickly as a result of the Miami and Erie Canal and its position on the railway line between New York and Chicago.

In 1825, the Ohio state legislature authorized the construction of Miami and Erie Canal and later its Wabash and Erie Canal extension in 1833.

** Snow falls in Miami, Florida ( despite its ordinarily tropical climate ) for the only time in its history.

American Airlines retired all its Airbus A300-600 Aircraft from service eight years after the accident ( and 21 years in service ) in August, 2009, with its last flight, flight 1908 from Miami to New York-JFK operating on August 24, 2009.