  The recent discoveries by the BaBar and CLEO II collaborations on the
splitting between $D_s$ and ${\tilde D}_s$ which exhibited surprises in the
structure of heavy-light-quark systems are connected -- via the Harada-Yamawaki
"vector manifestation" of hidden local symmetry -- to chiral symmetry
restoration expected to take place at some critical temperature $T_c$ in
heavy-ion collisions or at some critical density $n_c$ in the deep interior of
compact stars, the main theme of this symposium. This unexpected connection
exemplifies the diversity of astro-hadronic phenomena discussed in this
meeting.
