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...production that would endow his Alexandria with the wisdom of the world. While scholars from throughout the world were allowed to come and study at the library, texts were not to be shared with other countries. The Ptolemies banned the exportation of papyrus and confiscated many a scroll from Alexandria??€™s visitors. Why should the fact of power melt away now, just because we’ve changed mediums from the physical to the digital?Power relations are implicated in any library, when knowledge is concentrated under the auspices of any single force. Google Book Search really does...
...residents while maintaining relatively low property taxes. In September, biotech lab developer Alexandria Real Estate, Inc. applied for a zoning change that would allow it to construct buildings taller than those currently allowed under East Cambridge zoning rules. Some residents said they believed the meeting was called to facilitate Alexandria??€™s plans for development. But City Manager Robert W. Healey denied that the meeting had anything to do with zoning regulations, stating that it was meant to address existing biosafety rules. In 1976, Cambridge became the first city in the world to pass biosafety regulations, setting the standard...
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