Word: oldest
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...Glenn certainly isn't getting any younger ? he's 15 years the senior of Stori Musgraze, currently the oldest ever cosmonaut. But that's the whole point ? NASA will be able to look at the same astronaut, then and now, to discover whether old age makes any difference in weightlessness...
...that such a feat is impossible. Despite the relentless derision it suffers at the hands of the media, the United States Postal Service is, from a historical perspective, perhaps the best and certainly the oldest evidence of the success of the United States government. Before 1865, the post office was the only real federal presence felt in most states of the Union. So if you're casting about for the primeval symbol of a unified American republic, look no further than your own mailbox...
...oldest, at the Broadway Marketplace, was built in October 1994. The most recent, on Church Street, opened this February. The other two locations are in The Garage, on Mt. Auburn Street, and at 1662 Mass. Ave., between Harvard and Porter squares...
Though Christmas time performances of Handel's Messiah abound in the greater Boston area, none could deny that the Handel and Haydn Societys annual production stands out from the usual "Hallelujah" shouting crowds. The H&H, as its aficionados fondly dub it, not only is the country's oldest continuously performing arts organization, dating from 1815, but has maintained the tradition of a December performance of Messiah every year since 1854. If last Sunday's rendition of Handel's 1753 version of Messiah is any indication, the H&H has not let its great musical heritage go to waste...
...undergraduate mothers at Harvard are under 25. Suzanne Girlando '68-'96, had four children when she graduated Harvard at age 39. At that time, her youngest was only eight years old, and her oldest was a student at Boston University...