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...former role as team baby and mascot has been taken over by this year's huggable 16-year-old, Nadia Anita Nall, a high school junior from suburban Baltimore. Nall's first name was bestowed in honor of Nadia Comaneci, who won Olympic gold as a gymnast in 1976 while Nall's father watched TV awaiting her birth. But the name was dropped from family usage in favor of Anita. So too, when she was seven, was her seemingly foreordained pursuit of gymnastics. She focused on swimming, set age-group records by 12 and notched an adult American record...
...until they could be thoroughly checked out. At higher altitudes, the cabin must be pressurized to a greater extent and more strain is put on the fuselage. Among those airlines most severely affected by last week's ruling were American and Piedmont. After inspecting the damaged jet, Joseph Nall, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, declared, "My hope is that it will raise the consciousness" of air carriers and regulators about the hazards of overworked planes...
...busy early in the week as well, battling the Big Green at home at 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Even though it's only one match, the team had a tough time with Dartmouth when they met in the Howe Cup tourney three weeks ago, and it should be another nall-biter...
...partly this tension-relieving aspect of alpha that makes brain-wave control potentially useful in psychiatry. For example, scientists hope they can help claustrophobics by training them to produce alpha and thus relax in enclosed spaces. In Beaumont, Texas, the Angie Nall School for problem children has experimented with alpha training to relax stutterers and as a substitute for tranquilizers in hyperactive youngsters. At the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kans., Psychologist Elmer Green is training subjects not to raise but to lower their alpha while increasing theta. In a low-alpha, high-theta state, Green explains, deeply buried unconscious problems...
...Nall and Mid Cape entry...