Crossing Enemy Lines in Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss/Just A Kiss

A fond farewell

JEM © The Rockefeller University Press $8.00 Vol. 203, No. 8, August 7, 2006 1833 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20061544 1833 Jennifer Bell, a superlative Executive Editor for the JEM for nearly 3 years, has decided to return to her home and family in Scotland. Jen will be sorely missed, but will continue as a consultant to the JEM, so many of you will see her at meetings and will continue to...

Forbidden emission lines in Herbig Ae/Be stars

The absence of high velocity redshifted forbidden lines in classical T-Tauri stars (Appenzeller et al. 1984; Edwards et al. 1987) has long be taken as evidence of opaque circumstellar disks: disks which occlude the receding component of the stellar wind or outflow, allowing only the blueshifted emission to be observed. There has been some controversy in the literature recently as to whether a d...

Ken Cheng

Ken Cheng was born in Hong Kong. His family emigrated to Toronto, Canada while he was still young, and he attended high school in Toronto, and then the University of Toronto. He has a M.Ed. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA in 1984. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Sussex and at the University of Western Ontario before beco...

Crossing by lines all edges of a line arrangement

Let L be a family of n blue lines in the real projective plane. Suppose that R is a collection of m red lines, different from the blue lines, and it is known that every edge in the arrangement A(L) is crosses by a line in R. We show that m ≥ n−1 3.5 . Our result is more general and applies to pseudo-line arrangements A(L), and even weaker assumptions are required for R.

Ken Wilson: a scientific appreciation.