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Travel dilemmas: On vacation, give those digital devices a rest, too

Some drowned. Some fell. Others were killed in car accidents.

The culprit: usually a smartphone in pursuit of a selfie.

Drownings and falls are among the leading causes of selfie-related deaths; many car accidents can be traced to distracted driving, thanks to the need to respond to texts and email.

The smartphone has become a fatal attraction.

It also may be guilty of lesser crimes that affect even more travelers: the ability to subvert or even destroy your time away.

It's bad enough that we don't take all the vacation time we're allotted. More than half of all Americans leave

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