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...Range Kids blog, which eventually turned into her own Dangerous Book for Parents: Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry. There is no rational reason, she argues, that a generation of parents who grew up walking alone to school, riding mass transit, trick-or-treating, teeter-tottering and selling Girl Scout cookies door to door should be forbidding their kids to do the same. But somehow, she says, "10 is the new 2. We're infantilizing our kids into incompetence." She celebrates seat belts and car seats and bike helmets...
...consumers may be spending more, but not nearly enough to ensure sustainable growth for the Chinese economy down the road. "The consumer revolution already has been happening, but it could be much, much better," says Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, an economic advisor to MasterCard Worldwide. (See TIME's photoessay "Mass Transit: The Best-Selling Cars in China...
People who would normally drive to their destinations are now willing to take public transit because of its “speed, convenience [and] reliability,” he said...
Steve Knaebel, a consultant to the Metrobús project, said that the transformation brought about by the transit system is societal as well as environmental...
This year, it was given to multiple parties involved in the funding and operation of the transit system, including Marcelo Ebrard, the Mayor of Mexico City, the World Bank, the Shell Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation...