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Highlight Reel: 1. Texting drivers could prompt a "crash epidemic": Truck drivers were 23.2 times more likely to get into a crash or near crash than drivers who weren't distracted. This correlates to the length of time a texting driver's eyes were off the road - almost five seconds, long enough to cover a football field at highway speeds. Given the increasing popularity of texting - it's grown tenfold in the last three years, by one count - it could swiftly become an enormous peril to road safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texting Drivers, Tempting Fate | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...Lowdown: This research confirms what common sense already tells us - texting behind the wheel is a really bad idea. Two recent examples: two months ago a Boston trolley driver slammed into another trolley just after text-messaging his girlfriend, injuring 62 people. In September, 25 people were killed when a California train engineer struck a freight train after texting a friend. And a video of a Texas bus driver apparently striking a car while texting has been making the rounds on YouTube. It's hard to argue against banning the practice for drivers - 14 states already do - though it remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texting Drivers, Tempting Fate | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...like cows?” my fellow passenger asked the driver, his words broken up by laughter. According to the cabbie, it was not so much a penchant for the four-legged animal that drove him to convert his taxi into a bovine on wheels, but a yearning for his rural hometown and life away from the bustling streets of Santiago. Supposedly having a cow taxi reminds him of the countryside...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Holy Cow! | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...last of the three to get dropped off that evening, I paid the driver and stepped out onto my driveway. I had barely closed the door when the nighttime quiet of my residential street was pierced by a final “MOOOOO!” as the Cow Cab bid me adieu...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Holy Cow! | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...individuals were actually Gates, who was returning home from a trip to China, and his car driver, who helped Gates carry his luggage and force his way through the jammed front door...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Release Tapes from Gates Arrest | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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