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Sinkhole survivors tell about their terrifying experience while others mourn the loss of family and homes. Geologist Matthew Kirby investigates the causes of Florida's Sinkhole Alley and maps aquifer tunnels with the help of divers and a cave cartographer.Kirby teams up with a top Hollywood special effects company to simulate the lethal power of nature's most terrifying death trap: Sinkholes!
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This Globe Trekker episode follows Lavinia Tan on a trip through Florida and the Bahamas, a place of theme parks, sun, and sand, also home of the largest sub-tropical wilderness in the U.S. and the only place in the Western hemisphere to have launched man into space. In Miami, Lavinia goes to the Cuban Calle Ocho street party, sees South Beach's Art Nouveau architecture, attends the Gay and Lesbian Winter Party, and visits the Holocaust Memorial....
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Follow marine scientists as they discover the mating ritual of the Atlantic nurse shark in the remotest of Florida's Keys, the Dry Tortugas. Here, protected marine life exists as it did decades ago in the more northern Keys. The pristine conditions and the absence of fishermen provide a safe environment for all marine life inhabiting the area. Since the nurse sharks have selected the area as their mating grounds, marine scientists are afforded the...
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On February 28 2013, in a quiet residential suburb east of Tampa, Florida, Jeff Bush was asleep in bed when he and his entire bedroom disappeared into an abyss. Terrifyingly, there was no warning and Jeff's body has never been recovered. He had been swallowed by a sinkhole. But what causes these sinkholes? And is there anything we can do about them? In this fascinating geological detective story, Professor Iain Stewart unearths millions of years of...
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After the release of 911 calls, demonstrators gathered in Sanford, Florida. In March 2012 to demand the arrest of the neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman who shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez and The Miami Herald's Frances Robles discuss why a Florida law could make filing charges against the shooter more difficult. Origina?
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Power and powerlessness. Miami's black community-pummeled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment- explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city's Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor.