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...member of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Police say he led them to an oil-palm plantation where a cache of chemicals was buried, including an unspecified amount of sodium azide, a powder that can be used to make poison gas. "When mixed with water, acid or metal, it changes rapidly to a highly toxic gas," says a Malaysian-government chemist. "The gas can be fatal...
...ACID conducted a survey to gauge Agassiz’s priorities, and used it to create a “wish list” of concessions they hoped to receive from the University, including over a million dollars to support neighborhood programs and a cap on building heights...
Joel Bard, a member of ACID, says the group recognized that Harvard could legally build on its own property within the campus, but saw an opportunity to work with the University and get some benefits out of the deal...
...discussions have been productive, Harvard officials and ACID members say, although neither side is offering any promises...
Meanwhile, just next door, HLS has hired consultants to help plan its expansion, and several ACID representatives are on that study committee...