***************** Absolute Topics I ***************** ・Made slight modifcations to the Abstract ・Bibliography: ``The Absolute Anabelian Geometry of Hyperbolic  Curves'': corrected ``2003'' ---> ``2004'' ****************** Absolute Topics II ****************** ・Made slight modifcations to the Abstract ・Made slight modifcations to the Introduction ・Replaced various statements concerning the ``genus'' by statements  concerning the ``type'' in Definition 1.9; Corollaries 1.10, 1.11;  the beginning of the proof of Corollary 1.10 ・Bibliography: ``The Absolute Anabelian Geometry of Hyperbolic  Curves'': corrected ``2003'' ---> ``2004'' ******************* Absolute Topics III ******************* ・Made slight modifcations to the Abstract ・Corollary 2.8: added the words ``from the topological group $\Pi_X$'' ・Definition 5.4, (v): $2\pi$ ---> $\pi$ ・slight modification to Proposition 5.7, (ii) ・Proposition 5.8, (iii): final display $I(G)^G$ ---> $I(G)$ ・slight modification to Proposition 5.8, (vi) ・Bibliography: ``The Absolute Anabelian Geometry of Hyperbolic  Curves'': corrected ``2003'' ---> ``2004''