A combination of public policy decisions and corporate scheming saw to it that countless convenient and efficient urban streetcar and intra-city rail systems were dismantled.
The political and economic life of the cities was centered on their temples, but it now seems probable that the cities had secular rulers from earliest times.
Beach books also may have been a factor. Florida was the only state with three cities on the list: Miami, Orlando and University of Florida's home, Gainesville.
The debate over the Colombian rock star, who is based in Miami, has now been raging for a month or more on the city's Spanish-language radio and TV shows.