Anybody confirm this?

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

>PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University suspended a graduate student charged with
>poisoning his former girlfriend and another student with radioactive
iodine. Cheng Gu, 24, a
>graduate student in pharmacology, has been charged with assault, poisoning
and larceny.
>Gu took a small quantity of radioactive iodine-125 from a university
laboratory and used it
>to season a vegetable dish. He then gave the radioactive veggies to his
former girlfriend.
>Her roommate also ate some of the food. The poisoning was discovered when
the former
>girlfriend set off a Geiger counter as she entered a laboratory. A search
for the source of
>the radioactivity led police to her home and the dish Gu gave her.
>>>>It was commented that she had a certain glow to her.
Chris Alston
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu
I am not here a representative of my employer.

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