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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This volume was planned at a meeting held in La Jolla, California, on May 8, 2002.

(Extracted from the preface).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Preface.

-Contents.

-Frontispiece. Adriaan Blaauw.
-MY CRUISE THROUGH THE WORLD OF ASTRONOMY. Adriaan Blaauw.
-ASTROPHYSICS WITH PRESOLAR STARDUST. Donald D. Clayton, Larry R. Nittler.
-THE FIRST STARS. Volker Bromm, Richard B. Larson.
-ISO SPECTROSCOPY OF GAS AND DUST: From Molecular Clouds to Protoplanetary Disks. Ewine F. van Dishoeck.
-NEUTRON STAR COOLING. D.G. Yakovlev, C.J. Pethick.
-INTERSTELLAR TURBULENCE I: Observations and Processes. Bruce G. Elmegreen, John Scalo.
-INTERSTELLAR TURBULENCE II: Implications and Effects. John Scalo, Bruce G. Elmegreen.
-GRS 1915+105 AND THE DISC-JET COUPLING IN ACCRETING BLACK HOLE SYSTEMS. Rob Fender, Tomaso Belloni.
-IMPULSIVE MAGNETIC RECONNECTION IN THE EARTH'S MAGNETOTAIL AND THE SOLAR CORONA. A. Bhattacharjee.
-ABUNDANCE VARIATIONS WITHIN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. Raffaele Gratton, Christopher Sneden, Eugenio Carretta.
-DYNAMICS OF LUNAR FORMATION. Robin M. Canup.
-EROS AND FAINT RED GALAXIES. Patrick J. McCarthy.
-FINE STRUCTURE IN SUNSPOTS. John H. Thomas, Nigel O. Weiss.
-PLANET FORMATION BY COAGULATION: A Focus on Uranus and Neptune. Peter Goldreich, Yoram Lithwick, Re'em Sari.
-SECULAR EVOLUTION AND THE FORMATION OF PSEUDOBULGES IN DISK GALAXIES. John Kormendy, Robert C. Kennicutt Jr.
-YOUNG STARS NEAR THE SUN. B. Zuckerman, Inseok Song.

-Indexes.