Developing that passion for reading is crucial, according to Jim Trelease, author of the best-seller, The Read-Aloud Handbook.. Every time we read to a child, we're sending a 'pleasure' message to the child's brain, he writes in the Handbook.. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.. This reading commercial is critical when competition for a child's attention is so fierce.
Massachusetts has an unique unposted limit law. If a limit is not posted outside of a thickly settled area, you are not speeding unless you exceed 50 (divided highway) or 40 (undivided) for a quarter mile. In a thickly settled area other than a school zone, exceeding 30 for an eighth of a mile is speeding.
All of the roads in the US have a speed limit, the average being around 75 mph, with some areas in Texas and Utah reaching 80 mph. Road speed limits are used in most countries -- and are endorsed by the World Health Organization -- as a way to reduce road casualties. The highest speed limit ever introduced was in Abu Dhabi between 2005 and 2010 where the limit was set at 99 mph. The speed limit was reduced in 2011 to 87 mph. In Germany, some autobahns have no speed limit, but an advisory limit of 130 km/h (80 mph) was established in 2008.