Matters of Gravity, the newsletter of the APS Topical Group on   Gravitation
  Research Briefs:   Cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments, by Sean Carroll   LISA Project Update by Bill Folkner   An update on the r-mode instability, by Nils Andersson   Laboratory experiments: news from MG9, by Riley Newman   Progress toward Commissioning the LIGO detectors, by Stan Whitcomb   160 Hours of Data Taken on TAMA300, by Seiji Kawamura   Conference reports:   Kipfest, by Richard Price   Third Capra meeting, by Eric Poisson   GR at the XIIIth Congress on Mathematical Physics, by Abhay Ashtekar   3rd International LISA Symposium, by Curt Cutler 
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