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\title{POPULATIONS OF MASSIVE STARS\\
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 AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM}

  \author{Claus Leitherer\\
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Space Telescope Science Institute\/\thanks{Operated by AURA, Inc., 
for NASA under contract NAS5-26555}\\
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3700 San Martin Drive\\
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Baltimore, MD 21218}

\pub{VIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics\\
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Stellar Astrophysics for the Local Group\\
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{\em La Laguna (Tenerife)\\
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2--13 December 1996\\
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eds.: A.~Aparicio, A.~Herrero, and F.~S\'anchez\\
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(Cambridge: Cambridge Univ.\ Press)}}

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\begin{abstract}
The properties of massive stars and their stellar winds are reviewed. 
Winds are crucial for stellar evolution and for the energization of the
interstellar medium. The lectures cover the properties of individual stars,
which serve as our local calibrators. More and more distant populations can
be used as cosmic yardsticks to trace massive star populations out to
cosmological distances. Techniques to determine the properties of these
populations are introduced. Observed wind phenomena range from individual
stellar ejecta to a large-scale blow-out of the interstellar medium in
galaxies.   
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