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February 28th, 2005

E-books in Iran

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Psst! Don’t tell the Pentagon, the CIA, the FBI, or Homeland Security, but the TeleBlog keeps getting a few accesses from Iran. No nuke secrets for the ayatollahs. Hey, guys, I’m Jewish. Maybe this is one reason for the visits:

The head librarian of the Central Library of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Mohammad Abdullahi, said on the threshold of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the university that the electronic library of the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, with some 5000 digital periodicals and 500 electronic books, has connected the students and the faculty members to the most important scientific resources in the world.

Here’s a modest proposal to improve U.S. security. Maybe we can send Michael Gorman over there to rant against e-books and other knowledge-spreaders.

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