Very good article in the New York Times, Maggie. That about says it, I think. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the other URL to work.

As to the nay-sayers and the cynics, I feel as Virgil did when speaking to Dante about the inhabitants of the lowest level of Hell who, because of their aloofness and lack of humanity, had more than earned their dismal fate:   "Let us think no more about them, but look once and pass on."

Don Firth