Another grammatical error, Dennis.
I first wrote to you about this in 2002 and again several times since this, but needless to say, you ignored me.
The verb "think" doesn't agree with the pronoun "one" because "one" isn't its subject. Rather, "who" is its subject. "Who" can be singular or plural, depending on its antecedent. The antecedent here is "kids", not "one", not even "one of the kids", because he isn't the ONLY kid doing the thinking, he's a member of a group who think. Plural.
Time magazine committed a similar error on their cover and were quickly corrected by a dozen grammarians. They published one succinct explanation in their letters column: "Think of it this way: of the kids who think, this is one."
Is this a minor point? Not for the guy who regularly brags that he has a sensitive ear for language.
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