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When I wasa child, growing up in South America,I often went camping in the wild and hence had direct access to the wondrous Southern sky; the Southern Cross was all mine at the time. Little did I know then that the study of the sky would take such a huge importance in my life, and that in the end astronomy and astrophysics would in many ways become my country and my religion. I have lived in several di?erent countries, and when asked my nationality, I am always very tempted to reply: astronomer. I started as a theorist, and my only dream in my youth was to spend nights thinking and calculating, with paper and pencil, and to have the impression by dawn that I had understood something new. So at the time astronomy was seen or dreamt by me as a solitary endeavour, with periodic encounters with my wise adviser and professors; it is this model that I adopted when doing my PhD work. My generation has lived through many revolutions of all kinds. Those in astronomy, I believe, remain particularly remarkable, and I am a true product of them. Now, I elect to live and work in large organizations, and to share my endeavours with many people. And I relish the series of Andr' e Heck on Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, which help us recover our memories, reconstitute our own story, and read with glee about our neighbouring or far-away colleagues.
Contents
Editorial.- The Evolving Sociology of Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy at the Start of the 21ST Century.- Building Astronomy Research Capacity in Africa.- Astronomy in New Zealand.- The Current State of Austrian Astronomy.- Challenges and Opportunities in Operating a High-Altitude Site.- An Insider's Perspective on Observing Time Selection Committees.- Evaluation and Selection of Solar Observing Programs.- Evaluation and Selection of Radio Astronomy Programs: The Case of the 100M Radio Telescope at Effelsberg.- The Development of HST Science Metrics.- The Science News Metrics.- A Citation-Based Measure of Scientific Impact within Astronomy.- A Comparison of the Citation Counts in the Science Citation Index and the Nasa Astrophysics Data System.- Letters to the Editor of the AAS Newsletter: A Personal Story.- Space Law.- Search Strategies for Exoplanets.- IAU Initiatives Relating to the Near-Earth Object Impact Hazard.- Afoev: Serving Variable-Star Observers Since 1921 — An Interview with Émile Schweitzer.- The International Planetarium Society: A Community of Planetarians Facing the Challenges of the 21ST Century.- The Hands-On Universe Project.- Outreach from the Jodrell Bank Observatory.- Astronomy Multimedia Public Outrenach in France and Beyond.- Astronomers and the Media: What Reporters Expect.
