The focus of these four issues of a quarterly journal on gifted children is on the total child, gifted girls, asynchrony, and teaching teachers. Each issue also includes columns on parents, the Internet, home schooling, software reviews, and recommended books. Major articles include the following: "A Circle of Friends: The Nature and Nurture of Social Relationships among Gifted Children" (Annette Revel Sheely); "The Total Teacher for the Total Child" (Mary Anna Thornton and Marilyn Wallace); "A Road Less Traveled" (Lorraine Hoyt); "The Math-Science Mystique" (Lynn Fox, Jennifer Engle, and Janet Soller); "Gifted Girls" (Joan Franklin Smutny); "Compiling a Life's Work: A Conversation with Computing Pioneer Fran Allen" (Karen LaBonte); "Carousel...Girls and the M Word"(Monique Lloyd); "The Balance Uneasy: Asynchronous Development in Gifted Children" (Younghee M. Kim and LeoNora M. Cohen); "Asynchrony Personified" (Laura Goodman); "Asynchrony and the Gifted" (Jane Piirto); "Giftedness: The Asynchrony Syndrome" (Michael Rios); "Carousel...Does One Size Ever Fit All? A Case for Individualizing Curricula for Gifted and Talented Students" (F. Richard Olenchak); "On the Road, Teaching Teachers" (Susan Winebrenner); "Connecting with Gifted Students in Easy, Meaningful Ways" (Tracy J. Stegall); "Carousel...When Mama Bears Go to School" (Hope Sargeant); and "High Tech but High Touch: Strategies for Teaching and Learning via Distance" (Sheri Nowak). (Some articles contain references.) (DB)