Wow.  Just a quick add-on.  You know how people are always saying "kids today..." in a contemptuous manner?  Well Saturday at the TEDx event I heard 2 twelve year-olds, a 14 year old and a 16 year old talk about subjects of interest to them.  (The model UN, Girl Up and a kids referendum.)  Wow, again.  There is no way on God's Green Earth that I would have had the presence or the self-confidence to do what these kids did.  And I was certainly nowhere as profound or intellectual or knowledgeable.  And mind you they all spoke in English as second language speakers, for 15 minutes, without notes.  Holy Moly.  My kid was not one of them.....