Frank N. Young, Jr.

Introducing Edward N. Pugh, Jr.

forward to observe the Journal’s continued development and growth under his leadership. Finally I wish to thank a few individuals for their many contributions to the Journal during my 24 years as Associate Editor and Editor — fi rst and foremost my predecessor, Paul F. Cranefi eld, who was an exemplary mentor and set an example for us all to follow, and my fellow Associate Editors David Gadsby ...

Richard A. Settersten Jr, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr, and Rúben G. Rumbaut (eds), On the Frontier of Adulthood. Theory, Research, and Public Policy

the lives of American men and women roughly between the ages of 18 and 34. It brings together the work of a large number of renowned scholars in a huge volume (16 chapters, spanning more than 550 pages), producing, as the editors state, ‘arguably the most thorough description of this period to date’. A central aim of the volume is to ‘gain a more coherent and complete understanding of this peri...

Frank George Young: 25 March 1908-20 September 1988.

, Jr . MERCURY IN SEDIMENTS

In recent years, the Coastal Water Research Project has conducted surveys of the distribution of certain trace substances in sediments around the major municipal wastewater outfalls off southern California. Because of high levels of heavy metals found in sediments near Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts outfall system off Whites Point in 1970, detailed surveys of the Palos Verdes shelf wer...

Frank Mittelbach

[Background of this unusual double interview: the Free Software Magazine (http:// www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) and the TEX Users Group (TUG) both like to publish interviews. By chance, Gianluca Pignalberi of FSM and Dave Walden of TUG both approached Frank Mittelbach about interviewing him around the same time. Rather than doing two separate interviews, Mittelbach, Pignalberi, and Walden decid...