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5. CHECKLIST FOR THE NEXT DECADE

As I have been careful to stress (far too carefully for a real debate), the basic tenets of Inflation + Cold Dark Matter have not yet been confirmed definitively. However, a flood of high-quality cosmological data is coming, and could make the case soon. Regardless, the flood of information will make cosmology exciting for the next decade and beyond. Here is my version of how ``quite possibly'' becomes ``yes.''

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