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...watch a show, but to witness a miracle." This year, on the late-September feast of San Gennaro (St. Januarius), the miracle came off so smoothly that no one even had to shout the traditional insults of "big stinker" or "green face" at the saint to make his blood boil. It took only 40 minutes of prayer by the cardinal and the local populace for the dark crystalline substance-venerated as the 4th century martyr's blood-to liquefy in its hermetically sealed glass vial, as it has several times a year for at least 500 years...
That was enough to bring the blood of all Naples to a boil. San Gennaro, a newspaper editorial proclaimed, was "not just the patron but the godfather of Naples." A professor at the University of Naples, Gastone Lambertini, accused "modern" Catholics of having an "anemic faith." He announced that he had secured Cardinal Ursi's permission for a group of scientists from the university to study the phenomenal blood of Naples' patron saint...
Campus activism began simmering on several fronts this week although the prospect that it will reach a full boil this year is as yet uncertain...
...social stew has continued to boil, however. Even Fiedler, a once-morally committed and sometimes brilliant writer, announced in lecture the dating of his attitudes: the rest of us can now clearly see them as relevant only to crazed plastic aesthetes and pop anthropologists...
...School, headquartered in West Los Angeles, trains medical assistants at 14 locations across the country. Students are assigned only one book: a fat loose-leaf notebook that is supposed to contain all the knowledge the profession requires. As techniques change, new pages are inserted. Says President John Krebs: "We boil out all the nonessentials. We teach only those things that help a person get and keep a good job." Bryman places about 85% of its graduates in jobs and recently became the first proprietary school to have programs accredited by the American Medical Association...