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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION

2.Description of CMB Anisotropies

2.1.The Monopole

2.2.The Dipole

2.3.Higher Order Multipoles

2.4.Angular Resolution and Binning

3.COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS

4.PHYSICS OF ANISOTROPIES

4.1.The Sachs-Wolfe plateau: 100

4.2.The acoustic peaks: 100 1000

4.3.The damping tail: 1000

5.CURRENT ANISOTROPY DATA

6.CMB POLARIZATION

7.COMPLICATIONS

7.1.Foregrounds

7.2.Secondary Anisotropies

7.3.Higher-order Statistics

8.CONSTRAINTS ON COSMOLOGIES

9.PARTICLE PHYSICS CONSTRAINTS

10.FUNDAMENTAL LESSONS

11.FUTURE DIRECTIONS

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