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Reach out and touch anyone via a pay phone
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International Herald Tribune
05-14-2004
It started as an art project. Blue spiral notebook in hand, Mark Thomas spent afternoons walking the streets of Manhattan, compiling the numbers and locations of public pay phones. He posted them on his Web site in the hope that people would call them. ''There is real beauty in whimsical acts of contact between strangers,'' he explained. Soon his list expanded to include public phones at the top of the Eiffel Tower, in the basemen...
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FIND A PAY PHONE.(TECH)(WEB SITE OF THE WEEK)(Column)
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; Byline: Lynn Welch There's one at the Barrymore, one at Noodles & Co. on State Street and a number still at the Memorial Union. If you want to see where in Madison, or elsewhere around the country, you can find a pay phone, consult the Pay Phone Directory at www.payphone-directory.org. While
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