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Notices of the American Mathematical Society ISSN 0002-9920 of the American Mathematical Society February 2004 Volume 51, Number 2 Geometrization of 3-Manifolds via the Ricci Flow page 184 RIMS, an Institute for Japan and the World page 194 Los Angeles Meeting page 290 Lawrenceville Meeting page 292 Houston Meeting page 295 Heawood's demonstration of Kempe's error (see page 207) Document conversion between Microsoft™ WORD and LaTeX is easier than watching PING-PONG! Paintwork © 2003 Alex Chikrii. a, rd \i Word2TeX and TeX2Word are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Chikrii Softlab in the United States and/ or other countries. Microsoft, Microsoft Word are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/ or other countries. 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