  The current state of cosmology is easy to summarize: a very successful
standard model -- the hot big-bang cosmology -- that accounts for the evolution
of the Universe from 10^{-2} sec until the present; bold ideas based upon
early-Universe physics -- foremost among them inflation and cold dark matter --
that can extend the standard cosmology to times as early as 10^{-32} sec and
address the most pressing questions; and a flood of observations -- from
determinations of the Hubble constant to measurements of CBR anisotropy -- that
are testing inflation and cold dark matter.
