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...while the Square 25 years ago and the Square today still share that same distinctive Saturday-afternoon feel--when street musicians send melodies into the air and crowds gather to watch the chess matches in front of Au Bon Pain--members of the Class of 1974 also remember a city that was comfortably eccentric. It did not have the "edge" that Charles M. Sullivan, head of the Cambridge Historical Commission, says he sees today...
...BABY MAKES THREE The days of the large family are history. According to Only Child News and the U.S. Census Bureau, a third of American families started today will have only one child. Three-member families increased from 10 million in 1972 to more than 15 million today, and one-child families outnumber those with two children. Experts say couples are having fewer kids because of improved contraception and because women are better educated and working outside the home in greater numbers...
LOVING LATEX Condoms have come a long way since the Romans wore sheaths made from animal bladders. Today latex is king. Not only is it the most popular type of condom, but now a study finds that compared with newer polyurethane prophylactics, latex is one-tenth as likely to break during intercourse and one-third as likely to slip...
...young to remember the day the Roman Catholic music died. The Latin prayers, the ethereal Gregorian chant--they were cast out of the Catholic Mass in the 1960s, after the modernizing church council known as Vatican II. But Muskett doesn't remember the '60s either. To her, today's perky folk-guitar Masses are more grating than groovy. "Catholics of my generation are starved for the real thing," she says. So each Sunday, she and her family drive half an hour to attend the Solemn High Mass, most of it in Latin, offered by St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church...
Sources: Hubble Space Telescope Key Project Team, Social Security Administration, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Mountain Zone...