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...world. As it stands, the legislation permits assisted suicide if a physician is convinced that the patient has no chance of recovery, that he or she is mentally and physically capable of making the decision to die and that the patient administers the drug - about 10 grams of sodium pentobarbital mixed with a fruit juice - in a private residence. (If a third party administers the drug, the act is considered active euthanasia, which remains illegal in Switzerland, though not in the Netherlands or Belgium...
Coffee: You’ll think twice now about that triple-mocha latte, ever since six Harvard graduate students were poisoned when sodium azide somehow got into their joe. Authorities suspect foul play, but no motives or suspects are immediately obvious...
Matteo Iannacone, a research fellow who has worked at the 8th floor laboratory of the New Research Building for more than two years, told The Crimson in an interview yesterday that he cannot think of how the chemical, a laboratory preservative called sodium azide, would have accidentally wound up in his and his colleagues’ coffee...
...just think it’s very difficult to find an alternative explanation for sodium azide in the water. That’s it,” he said...
Iannacone said he found out that sodium azide was the toxin along with three other victims last Thursday in a meeting with HMS officials. The other two victims were out of the country, he said...