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...spin-offs of modern technology are as irritating as the junk phone call. At virtually any hour of the night or day, the unsuspecting telephone subscriber is likely to receive unsolicited sales pitches -- some of them prerecorded -- for anything from opera tickets to Oriental rugs. But what about Dial-a-Communicant? That is just what a number of church groups across the U.S. have taken up in an effort to found churches or attract additional members...
...avalanche of campuswide publications dropped in house hallways, three students are found trapped inside their rooms since late 1988, their only contact with the world being Dial-A-Menu and the Action Man. One of the students exclaims, "What do you mean, George Bush endowed a Harvard chapter of Skull and Bones...
...power but also telephone, audio, video and high-speed data signals to every electrical outlet in the house. The wiring would enable homeowners to plug anything from a telephone to a waffle iron into one of the new outlets, and the socket would determine whether to deliver a dial tone or 120 volts...
...What if they go into a telephone booth and dial Paramus, N.J. and that's the future version of having sex?" Fries said...
...Connecticut couple has discovered another way besides the lottery to convert numbers into dollars. Hank and Marie Oscar knew that there was something unusual about 800-243-2546, the toll-free number that AT&T had randomly assigned to their video-gear company, Oscarvision Systems. On the telephone dial, their number spells CHECK-IN, which they first realized eight years ago when a hotel called and asked for the rights to their number. But the cash offer was too tiny to bother with, so the Oscars held on to their digits even though the spelling had no connection with video...