MEASURED VALUES FOR THE HUBBLE CONSTANT are converging nicely. At a press conference on May 25, Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Institution reported a new value of 70 km/sec/megaparsec (with an uncertainty of 10%), down from a value of 80 reported back in 1994. She is one of the leaders of a group that uses the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to track the light emission of Cepheid variable stars in nearby galaxies. Another Carnegie astronomer, Allan Sandage, has been a leader of a group that consistently measures a smaller value for the Hubble constant, the latest number being about 59, up from an earlier value of 57. Thus the observed Hubble constant, which is a measure of the overall expansion of the cosmos, is now providing an estimate for the age of the universe--about 12 billion years--that is no longer in contradiction with the apparent age of the oldest stars. (NASA press release, 25 May 1999.)