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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held in Palo Alto, California, on June 8, 2001.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Frontispiece. Hans A. Bethe.
-MY LIFE IN ASTROPHYSICS. Hans A. Bethe.
-MASSIVE STARS IN THE LOCAL GROUP: Implications for Stellar Evolution and Star Formation. Philip Massey.
-EMBEDDED CLUSTERS IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS. Charles J. Lada, Elizabeth A. Lada.
-MASS LOSS FROM THE NUCLEI OF ACTIVE GALAXIES. D. Michael Crenshaw, Steven B. Kraemer, Ian M. George.
-ACTION AT A DISTANCE AND COSMOLOGY: A Historical Perspective. J.V. Narlikar.
-HOT GAS IN AND AROUND ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES. William G. Mathews, Fabrizio Brighenti.
-INTERSTELLAR DUST GRAINS. B.T. Draine.
-HIGH-RESOLUTION X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY WITH CHANDRA AND XMM-NEWTON. Frederik B.S. Paerels, Steven M. Kahn.
-LABORATORY X-RAY ASTROPHYSICS. Peter Beiersdorfer.
-POST-AGB STARS. Hans Van Winckel.
-EVOLUTION OF A HABITABLE PLANET. James F. Kasting, David Catling.
-COOL WHITE DWARFS. Brad M.S. Hansen, James Liebert.
-QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY OF PHOTOIONIZED CLOUDS. Gary J. Ferland.
-ENHANCED ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSPORT IN ACCRETION DISKS. Steven A. Balbus.
-THE INTERNAL ROTATION OF THE SUN. Michael J. Thompson, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Mark S. Miesch, Juri Toomre.
-WEAK GRAVITATIONAL LENSING BY LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE. Alexandre Refregier.

-Indexes.