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Sep 22, 2008, 08:37AM

Texting automatically removes 10 I.Q. points”

The New York Times comes through in the clutch to deliver us this doozy: text messages dumben us.

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In the latest backlash against text-messaging, the California Public Utilities Commission announced an emergency measure on Thursday temporarily banning the use of all mobile devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.

The ban was adopted after federal investigators announced that they were looking at the role that a train engineer’s text-messaging might have played here last week in the country’s most deadly commuter rail accident in four decades.

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