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...primary-care physicians who hook up with the kind of communities Lau hails from. In fact, under the innovative FIU curriculum that started in August, those neighborhoods are laboratories for students like Lau, who, starting in their second year, will go into disadvantaged pockets like Miami Gardens and Opa-locka on a weekly basis. (See "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...seemed to notice (one of several lapses in immigration procedures that aided the hijackers). On Dec. 21, Atta and Al-Shehhi got their pilot licenses. About a week later, they trained for three hours each on the Boeing 727 simulator at Simcenter Inc. at Opa-Locka Airport, outside Miami. By that time, the two men, who called themselves cousins, had each logged about 300 hours of flying time. They were still beginners, but they knew enough to maneuver an airborne plane...
...simulators regularly to train for emergencies that are too dangerous to practice in a real plane: a double-engine failure or a fire on takeoff. For $1,500, Atta and Al-Shehhi bought six hours of simulator time from Henry George, who owns the SimCenter School in Opa-Locka. He led them through a few basic maneuvers: climbs, descents, turns. It wasn't much, but it was enough to give a beginner pilot a realistic sensation of how to handle a three-engine jet airliner. And enough, later, to break George's heart. "To think that I helped...
...UrbanAmerica has acquired $110 million worth of commercial property, including a shopping mall in Opa Locka, Fla., and medical offices in Las Vegas. The company finds creative ways to bolster communities--and thus protect investments. At Eastover Shopping Center in Oxon Hill, Md., UrbanAmerica is even building a 22,000-sq.-ft. police precinct to make the neighborhood safer and enhance property values...
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