A Crisis Of Spirit

This year's edition contains one article addressing a highly theoretical issue and one that is solidly phenomenological. The first is a pedagogical overview of light quantization, which has been a central focus of recent nuclear and particle physics because light-cone coordinates are the natural coordinates for describing high-energy scattering; and because of deepening questions about the triviality of the vacuum, the role of zero modes, rotational invariance, and renormalization. The second is a comprehensive review of recent advances in electron-induced nucleon knockout reactions, which in principle could be a powerful tool to explore the energy and momentum distribution of protons and neutrons in finite nuclei. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR