Re: Anybody confirm this?

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

>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - Brown University on Monday suspended a graduate
>student charged with poisoning his former girlfriend and another student with
>radioactive iodine, university officials said.
>
>Providence police over the weekend charged Cheng Gu, 24, a graduate student in
>pharmacology at the Ivy League school, with assault, poisoning and larceny.
>
>Gu, who is on a student visa from China, told police he had taken a small
>quantity of radioactive iodine-125 from a university laboratory and used it to
>season a vegetable dish.
>
>Police said he gave the radioactive food to a fellow student whom they
>described as his former girlfriend whom the university identified as another
>graduate student in pharmacology from China.
>
>Her roommate, a male undergraduate, also ate some of the food, police said.
>
>Officials at Brown said both victims received about the same amount of
>exposure to radiation as they would have undergoing a medical exam.
>
>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, police said.
>
>It was not the first time radioactive material had been stolen from Brown.
>
>In 1982 the university was cited for nine violations of Rhode Island radiation
>safety regulations after two workers were deliberately contaminated with
>radioactive phosphorous.
>
>In that case, which remains unsolved, a microbiologist and her secretary were
>given candies laced with the isotope P-32.
Chris Alston
alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu
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