  Community News:
  - Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, by Sam Finn
  - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, by Lee Smolin
  Research Briefs:
  - Detector and Data Developments within GEO 600, by Alicia Sintes
  - The Virtual Data Grid and LIGO, by Pat Brady and Manuela Campanelli
  - 1000 hours of data and first lock of the recycled TAMA300, by Seiji
Kawamura
  - LIGO Takes Some Data!, by Stan Whitcomb
  - Quantum gravity: progress from an unexpected direction, by Matt Visser
  Conference report:
  - Gravitational-wave phenomenology at PennState, by Nils Andersson
