  Contents:
  * Community news:
  Einstein prize update, by Clifford Will
  World year of physics, by Richard H. Price
  We hear that... by Jorge Pullin
  * Research briefs:
  R-mode epitaph? by John Friedman and Nils Andersson
  Gravitational waves from bumpy neutron stars, by Ben Owen
  LIGO science operations begin!, by Gary Sanders
  * Conference reports:
  Fourth international LISA symposium, by Peter Bender
  Initial Data for Binary Systems, by Gregory Cook
  Report on Joint LSC/Source Modeling Meeting, by Patrick Brady
  Greek Relativity Conference, NEB-X by Kostas Kokkotas and Nick Stergioulas
  Gravity, Astrophysics, and Strings @ the Black Sea, by Plamen Fiziev
  Quantum field theory at ESI, by Robert Wald
  School on quantum gravity in Chile, by Don Marolf
  Apples with apples workshop, by Miguel Alcubierre
  Radiation reaction focus session and 5th Capra meeting, by Eanna Flanagan
  Numerical Relativity Workshop at IMA, by Manuel Tiglio
