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Article: Telephones open door to the world.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- December 16, 2002
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Byline: Gerald Ensley
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ The first Christmas present arrived 10 days ago: The new Sprint phone book. If a new phone book doesn't make you giddy, well, you're probably not a reporter.
(Or maybe you don't have much ego: I still get a charge out of looking up my name in the new phone book each year. One year, it even made the top-of-the-page index, which was cool.)
Reporters depend on phone books. Our business is all about talking to people. And the first trick in talking to people is finding the people. And from proliferating government agencies to private businesses to the average citizen, almost everybody can be found by ...