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Science 2 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5386, p. 21
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5386.21c
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Political turmoil has delayed for a year Malaysia's plans to open a graduate research university run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). But neither side is abandoning the project, which was supposed to enroll its first students this month.

"We're on hold, waiting for the government to act," says MIT's Fred Moavenzadeh, co-director of the project to create the Malaysia University of Science and Technology outside the capital, Kuala Lumpur (Science, 6 March, p. 1474). A private foundation is paying MIT $25 million over 5 years to instill its research-based curriculum into an elite group of scientist-entrepreneurs. But a similar contribution from the Malaysian government has been blocked by political upheavals precipitated by the country's yearlong economic crisis. In particular, last month's firing and arrest of Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim has disrupted activity at the ministry, which must approve the spending.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)