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...past year, 63.7 billion pieces of third-class mail landed in mailboxes across America. Where does it all come from? How did they get your name? And how can you curb it? -- Fax and phone solicitations: the newest generation of junk. -- Fighting recession blues by giving greed another chance. -- A Harlem bank failure wounds local pride...
Already, 180,000 businesses use automatic-dialing systems to deliver pre- recorded sales pitches to as many as 7 million people each day, according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and 2 million U.S. offices employ fax machines to transmit more than 30 billion pages of information -- much of it unsolicited -- per year...
...fire stations and emergency rooms, which the dialers can reach unintentionally. What irks people most is having to pay for solicitations they never asked for. Those with car phones and pagers are charged for every minute they use a telephone line, whether or not they initiated the call, and fax-machine owners pay up to 10 cents a sheet for the special paper the machines use to print out messages, including ones they did not request...
...spent $5 million. And it hardly helps that there are reports that Pons' phone has been disconnected and his Salt Lake City home put up for sale. But Pons is not totally out of touch: last week he requested a one-year sabbatical by having his lawyer send a fax to the university. If he ever surfaces, he will no doubt be able to explain what he has been doing and set suspicious minds to rest...
...order to make use of experimental data after tests have been conducted, Groopman's team must fax the data from their lab to their office--which is just down the hall--and dispose of the original unsanitary paper with the other waste...