Mexico City Now Offering Free Books to Subway Pax, Effort to reduce crime, encourage reading Options

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From the Chicago Tribune:

MEXICO CITY -- The underground offensive begins behind the turnstiles, where youths in orange T-shirts lie in wait for the rush of people coming down the subway stairs.

Before Metro passengers can get to a train, the youths hand them a book. That is their welcome into Mexico City's new rolling library.

In a novel program, the government of the hemisphere's largest city has begun distributing free anthologies of literature to subway commuters in hopes of improving the atmosphere in the train tunnels, perhaps lowering the crime rate and promoting more serious reading among Mexicans.

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