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Thus read an unusual edition of the Yard Bulletin e-mailed to all first-year students Tuesday...
...bulletin, which was sent from the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) e-mail account in an apparent April Fool’s Day hack, left many first-years laughing—and wondering what consequences the pranksters behind it might face...
...mail mimicked the usual format of the Yard Bulletin, which the FDO sends out each week to inform first-years about announcements and upcoming events...
...Recent events including the January, 2003, arrests in the United Kingdom of Algerian extremists apparently attempting to produce ricin toxin in their residences, indicate an ongoing interest among terrorists in developing improvised weapons of mass destruction," the bulletin says. It warns that ricin and other lethal agents can be easily concocted using recipes that can be found on the Internet and ingredients and equipment that can be bought from nurseries, hardware stores and mail order chemical supply houses. The bulletin cites several cases from the 1990s in which U.S. home-grown extremists and crackpots were arrested for making ricin...
...bulletin also tells local law officials and other first responders to be aware of telltale signs of toxin production: for instance, large caches of yeast or infant formula, which can be used to grow or dilute biological toxins, and sacks of castor beans, from which ricin is extracted...