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Two Canadians trek around Montreal collecting hundreds of unrequested and unused Yellow Pages books and dump them back on the doorstep of the Yellow Pages offices. It's a pretty confrontational way of making a point, but it's a point worth making: These books are a wasteful anachronism. (Unless, of course, your job is selling ads in the Yellow Pages.)
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