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Members of five coed chapters of Alpha Delta Phi, a literary fraternity that is one of the oldest in the country, are also now trying to interest Harvard undergraduates in starting a chapter at Harvard. The effort is being spearheaded by several students at Brown University who say they would like to have another strong chapter close by. A Harvard chapter would accept both male and female members and would follow the fraternity's literary tradition, says Brown student Pamela Coukos...
...recipe collections--inscribed on three Mesopotamian clay slabs dating to 1700 B.C.--are probably the oldest cookbooks in existence, according to William W. Hallo, curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection...
...only 15 miles from Jerusalem, the Dead Sea Scrolls are considered by biblical archaeologists to be the greatest manuscript discovery ever made. Their texts, set down in Hebrew and Aramaic some 2,000 years ago, include long-lost originals of dozens of celebrated religious works, as well as the oldest known copies of Old Testament Scriptures...
Dukakis, who is leading in the most recent polls of the Lone Star State, delivered a reading in Spanish at a Roman Catholic mass before a largely Hispanic congregation at the San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest cathedral in the country. The ceremony is regularly broadcast across the South on a Spanish-language radio network...
...Nowadays America's seniors are giving the lie to that grim vision. Fully half of all people now 75 to 84 are free of health problems that require special care or that curb their activities, according to surveys. Says Sociologist Bernice Neugarten of Northwestern University: "Even in the very oldest group, those above 85, more than one-third report no limitation due to health." Declares Dr. Richard Besdine, director of the aging center at the University of Connecticut: "Aging doesn't necessarily mean a life that is sick, senile, sexless, spent or sessile...