The point I try to make with the kids is, well, scripture tells us that man looks on the outside, but God looks to your heart.

In the process he meets a swan who accepts him.

A lot of people don't know about it, but it's really a good story.

So it's really cool. They put together a curriculum package.

I raise my standards pretty high, but the kids in the last two years always .. rise to the challenge.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.