Matters of Gravity, the newsletter of the APS Topical Group on   Gravitation
  News:   TGG session in the April meeting, by Cliff Will NRC report, by Beverly Berger MG9 Travel Grant for US researchers, by Jim Isenberg Research Briefs:   How many coalescing binaries are there?, by Vicky Kalogera Recent developments in black critical phenomena, by Pat Brady Optical black holes?, by Matt Visser ``Branification:'' an alternative to compactification, by Steve Giddings Searches for non-Newtonian Gravity at Sub-mm Distances, by Riley Newman Quiescent cosmological singularities by Bernd Schmidt The debut of LIGO II, by David Shoemaker Is the universe still accelerating?, by Sean Carroll Conference reports:   Journ\' ees Relativistes Weimar 1999, by Volker Perlick The 9th Midwest Relativity Meeting, by Thomas Baumgarte 
Jorge Pullin