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.
Texas took the top slot in October 2012, when it raised the speed limit to 85 on a 40-mile section of toll road on Highway 130. The state with the lowest speed limit is Hawaii, at 60 mph. With the exception of Alaska and Hawaii, every single U.S. state west of the Mississippi River has a speed limit of 70 mph or more. In the east, Maine stands alone with its 75 mph limit.