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Trailing 4-5 in the fourth set of this year's French Open final, Rafael Nadal, the swashbuckling Spanish teenager, was caught back on his heels, stranded a good 10 ft. behind the baseline. Sensing Nadal's predicament, his opponent, Mariano Puerta of Argentina, finessed a pretty drop shot just over the net, a sure winner. But Nadal, locks flopping, ran in from somewhere outside Madrid to return the chip. Puerta bashed the ball straight back at Nadal's legs, but Nadal blocked back another miracle that Puerta couldn't handle. Set tied. Nadal leaped high into the air, fist...
...article on gene hunter Craig Venter [THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE, Jan. 11] incorrectly referred to Venter's mentor; he is Ronald Nadel, not Nadal...
...Vietnam, stationed at the Naval Hospital in Danang. Venter was the senior corpsman in the emergency room during the Tet offensive. For five days he worked around the clock to mend, save or just ease the pain of thousands of young men. Shortly after Tet, when physician Ronald Nadal met him, Venter was in trouble again, following an altercation with a senior officer whom Venter advised to perform, as Nadal tactfully describes it, "a biologically impossible...
...Nadal adopted the ne'er-do-well corpsman, and the two worked closely over the next few months. Impressed by the young man, Nadal urged him to go to college after the war. "You felt this was someone who was not educated but who had a lot of raw intelligence," he says...
Laura Steinberg, Nadal-Ginard's attorney, saidin an interview this week that she played no rolein the drafting of the letter, and that the doctordid not consult her before releasing...