Recent observational advances have considerably improved the cosmological
tests, adding to the lines of evidence, and showing that some issues under
discussion just a few years ago may now be considered resolved or irrelevant.
Other issues remain, however, and await resolution before the great program of
testing the relativistic Friedmann-Lemaitre model, that commenced in the 1930s,
may at last be considered complete.Comment: 10 pages; conference proceedin
