  Research Briefs:
  Cosmic microwave background anisotropy experiments, by Sean Carroll
  LISA Project Update by Bill Folkner
  An update on the r-mode instability, by Nils Andersson
  Laboratory experiments: news from MG9, by Riley Newman
  Progress toward Commissioning the LIGO detectors, by Stan Whitcomb
  160 Hours of Data Taken on TAMA300, by Seiji Kawamura
  Conference reports:
  Kipfest, by Richard Price
  Third Capra meeting, by Eric Poisson
  GR at the XIIIth Congress on Mathematical Physics, by Abhay Ashtekar
  3rd International LISA Symposium, by Curt Cutler
