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The Washington State Human Rights Commission has become more popular than ever since Hagadone Directories, Insight and QwestDex listed it in their North Idaho and eastern Washington phone books. In fact, the Olympia office is fielding 50 to 100 phone calls per day from its toll-free listing. Seems the directories refer callers to a second number that dials up a sex hotline that solicits $2.99 per minute for a chat with "real working girls, housewives, students and fantasy girls." Apparently, the hotline picked up the commission's old number. That should explain the heavy breathing on the other end of the line.