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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held in San Francisco, California, on May 13, 2000.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Frontispiece. Edwin E. Salpeter.
-A Generalist Looks Back. Edwin E. Salpeter.
-Ultra-Compact HII Regions and Massive Star Formation. Ed Churchwell.
-Kuiper Belt Objects: Relics from the Accretion Disk of the Sun. Jane X. Luu & David C. Jewitt.
-Theory of Giant Planets. W.B. Hubbard; A. Burrows & J. I. Lunine.
-Theories of Gamma-Ray Bursts. P. Mészáros.
-Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies. Wayne Hu & Scott Dodelson.
-Stellar Radio Astronomy: Probing Stellar Atmospheres from Protostars to Giants. Manuel Güdel.
-Modified Newtonian Dynamics as an Alternative to Dark Matter. Robert H. Sanders & Stacy S. McGaugh.
-Cluster Magnetic Fields. C.L. Carilli & G.B. Taylor.
-The Origin of Binary Stars. Joel E. Tohline.
-Radio Emission from Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters. Kurt W. Weiler, Nino Panagia, Marcos J. Montes & Richard A. Sramek.
-Shapes and Shaping of Planetary Nebulae. Bruce Balick & Adam Frank.
-The New Galaxy: Signatures of Its Formation. Ken Freeman & Joss Bland-Hawthorn.
-The Evolution of X-Ray Clusters of Galaxies. Piero Rosati, Stefano Borgani & Colin Norman.
-Lyman-Break Galaxies. Mauro Giavalisco.
-Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect. John E. Carlstrom, Gilbert P. Holder & Erik D. Reese.

-Indexes.