Word: kingstone
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...lineage at a convenient point. Every child has differences from its parents, and over a great number of generations some changes will spread through a population, owing to selective breeding. The fishapod is a valuable find as a missing link?another snapshot in a continuum of change. Robert Fraser Kingston, Canada...
ROBERT FRASER Kingston...
...ELIZABETH CORDAY As Nurse Ratched in a West End production of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Alex Kingston gets a pay and status cut but probably a cuter outfit...
...teen was almost killed when his father learned his son was gay and invited a group to lynch the boy at his school. Months later, witnesses say, police egged on another mob that stabbed and stoned a gay man to death in Montego Bay. And this year a Kingston man, Nokia Cowan, drowned after a crowd shouting "batty boy" (a Jamaican epithet for homosexual) chased him off a pier. "Jamaica is the worst any of us has ever seen," says Rebecca Schleifer of the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and author of a scathing report on the island's anti...
...homophobia in Jamaica largely to the country's increasingly thuggish reggae music scene. Few epitomize the melding of reggae and gangsta cultures more than Banton, who is one of the nation's most popular dance-hall singers. Born Mark Myrie, he grew up the youngest of 15 children in Kingston's Salt Lane - the sort of slum dominated by ultraconservative Christian churches and intensely anti-gay Rastafarians. Banton parlayed homophobia into a ticket out of Salt Lane. One of his first hits, 1992's Boom Bye-Bye, boasts of shooting gays with Uzis and burning their skin with acid "like...