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That home was full of young boys who were on remand for things like murder.

But 60 years of research has demonstrated that separating children from their families and placing them in large institutions seriously harms their health and development, and this is particularly true for young babies.

Having worked with lots of young children, I expected the institution to be a riot of noise, but it was as silent as a convent.

In Moldova, young women raised in institutions are 10 times more likely to be trafficked than their peers, and a Russian study found that two years after leaving institutions, young adults, 20 percent of them had a criminal record, 14 percent were involved in prostitution, and 10 percent had taken their own lives.

So typically, small mammals live fast, die young.

Now we always focus, naturally, on how much we raise, because it's a very tangible outcome, but for me, awareness and education is more important than the funds we raise, because I know that is changing and saving lives today, and it's probably best exampled by a young guy that I met at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, at the start of the year.

And another key thing that I learned a lot throughout this whole process, last year Google named me as one of the brightest young minds in the world.

We have a high-profile journalist caught for plagiarism, a young superstar writer whose book involves so many made up quotes that they've pulled it from the shelves; a New York Times exposé on fake book reviews.

And Mira Nair was a young girl with thousands of other people watching this performance, but she was ready.

The sculptor Richard Serra talks about how, as a young artist, he thought he was a painter, and he lived in Florence after graduate school.

How good your attention is determines actually how fast you resolve that conflict, so the young guys here at the top of their game probably, like, did a little better than some of us that are older.

So your typical normal young adult can have a span of about three or four objects of attention.

And I spent every moment I could out at that flying school, way out of my comfort zone, all these young guys that wanted to be Qantas pilots, you know, and little old hop-along me in first my plaster cast, and then my steel brace, my baggy overalls, my bag of medication and catheters and my limp.

And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their minds they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.

The supply of young men willing to fight and die for this cause is dwindling.

The Arab Spring did, because it showed a way for young Muslims to bring about change in a manner that Osama bin Laden, with his limited imagination, could never have conceived.

Satellite television and the Internet are informing and empowering young Muslims in exciting new ways.

Who would have thought that two young guys and a start-up would beat out Google Video?

It's easiest to see this link between fear and the imagination in young children, whose fears are often extraordinarily vivid.

So the question is, what can the rest of us learn about fear from visionaries and young children?

I'd also seen a few kung fu movies, and secretly I kind of thought I might be able to learn how to fly, but I was very young at the time.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is often fighting the prison-industrial complex, fighting to prevent a system that's just sucking in more and more poor young men.

So I learned to write about myself in third person at a young age.

So after this experience, my art teacher, Mr. Shilale, he brought in these picture books, and I thought, "Picture books for kids!" and I started writing books for young readers when I was a senior in high school.

I know we're getting personal, but I was a young girl.

I live in New York, and last year, of the 140,000 teenagers that were stopped and frisked, 86% of them were black and Latino, and most of them were young men.

And there are only 177,000 young black and Latino men in New York, so for them, it's not a question of, "Will I get stopped?" but "How many times will I get stopped?

Foreign policy, you can figure that out by watching, I don't know, Rachel Maddow or somebody, but — (Laughter) — I want to talk about young people and structure, young people and structure.

Because for the majority of my adult life, I worked with young kids, teenagers with guns, I call them.

And I watched my own young grandchildren now come along and they're, much to the distress of my children, they are acting just like we did.

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