Grand Unification and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
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Recent progress in some selected areas of grand unification and physics beyond the standard model is reviewed. Topics include gauge coupling unification, SU(5), SO(10), symmetry breaking mechanisms, finite field theory: SU(3), leptonic color: SU(3), chiral color and quark-lepton nonuniversality: SU(3). **Talk at V-SILAFAE, Lima, Peru (July 2004).
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