Word: jamaica
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FLOYD FLAKE (D) District 6 (Southeast Queens--Jamaica; St. Albans...
BORN: Jan. 30, 1945, Los Angeles EDUCATION: Wilberforce U, B.A., 1967; United Theological Seminary, D.Min., 1994 FAMILY: Wife, Elaine; four children RELIGION: African Methodist Episcopal MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Minister POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1986- ADDRESS: 114-16A Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica 11434. Tel.: 718-262-9700 As pastor of the Allen A.M.E. Church, Flake has easily retained his seat in Congress while building a major community center--including a senior-citizen housing complex and a private Christian school--that employs 800 people. In Congress he champions minority concerns and economic development, and his parishioner-constituents will probably return...
Five dancers from Danza Azteca, a Jamaica Plain-based group, led the traditional Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead...
Advertised as "Say No to Columbus Day" on posters throughout Boston, "A Life-Affirming, Anti-Racism Alternative to Columbus Day--A Day of Truth and Intercultural Solidarity" will be held Monday from 4 to 8:30 p.m. at 4 Danforth Street in Jamaica Plains...
...reef is like a complex machine with many redundant components; when one malfunctions, another usually takes over. By the middle of the past century, for example, Jamaica's expanding human population had devastated the stock of seaweed-eating fish. Still, the reefs that surrounded the island looked healthy. Why? The answer, says the Smithsonian's Jackson, is sea urchins, which are also herbivores and which temporarily filled in for the missing fish. In 1983, however, the urchins succumbed to a mysterious disease. All of a sudden Jamaica's reefs crashed. With no urchins to crop back the seaweed, Jamaica...