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Bibliography and Abstracts A list of my papers, with citations and descriptions, 4pp, dvi file , ps file . Curriculum Vitae, dvi file , ps file . If T is stationary for area under Hamiltonian perturbations, then the area of T is bounded below by that of the Clifford torus. Using the inverse mean curvature flow put forward by Geroch and Jang-Wald, we succeed in proving this, even though the evolving surfaces jump around in the manifold. A corollary is the positive mass theorem of Schoen and Yau.