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POPSCar Booster Seats Often Used Improperly The NHTSA site also allows parents to search for local inspection stations where they can get help in installing and using car safety seats. SOURCE: Accident Analysis and Prevention, May 2009.
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POPSKids Up to Age 12 at Risk of Spine Injury From Car Crash "Vehicle manufacturers need to design the rear seats of their vehicles so that this is achieved and maintained during a crash," Brown said. For now, she advised parents to use car booster seats for as long as possible — until they are about 4 feet, 9 inches and can sit comfortably with their knees over the front of the seat, without slouching. Some older kids may be relatively short but too large for most booster seats. Brown noted that some seats are designed with different shapes that may be a better fit for older children.
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POPSMichael Jackson's unexpected death stuns world Wow, I don't know what to say. I'm shocked... he was one of the most famous people on the planet and an extremely talented but disturbed man. I'm just thinking about his kids and the strange arrangement that was made with their mother and what that will mean for them. I feel bad for those kids.
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POPSMark Steyn: Welcome, Kids, To The Brokest Generation
If you're an 18-year-old middle-class hopeychanger, look at the way your parents and grandparents live: It's not going to be like that for you. You're going to have a smaller house, and a smaller car – if not a basement flat and a bus ticket. . . . The Teleprompter Kid says not to worry: His budget numbers are based on projections that the economy will decline 1.2 percent this year and then grow 4 percent every year thereafter. Do you believe that? In fact, does he believe that? This is the guy who keeps telling us this is the worst economic crisis in 70 years, and it turns out it's just a 1-percent decline for a couple more months, and then party time resumes? And, come to that, wasn't there a (notably unprojected) 6.2 percent drop in GDP just in the last quarter of 2008? Youth is wasted on the young, said Bernard Shaw. So the geezers appropriated it. We love the youthful sense of living in the moment, without a care, without the burdens of responsibility –