stjokerli/TextToText_axb_seqio · Datasets at Hugging Face

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1,040	hypothesis: Medicare will choose 10 percent of applicants to receive benefits by Aug. 16. premise: Medicare will select by lottery 10 percent of those who apply by Aug. 16 to begin receiving benefits starting Sept. 1.	not_entailment
1,604	hypothesis: Slovenia has 5.5 million inhabitants. premise: In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.	not_entailment
17	hypothesis: In the early 1990s Brazil began to take action to save the rainforest. premise: Since 1987, however, Brazil has taken steps to dramatically reduce the destruction, including stepped-up enforcement and the elimination of tax incentives that led to large-scale land clearing.	not_entailment
35	hypothesis: North Korea says it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and is building more. premise: World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.	not_entailment
1,815	hypothesis: baby elephant born premise: On November 25, 2001, a baby Asian elephant was born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.	entailment
1,722	hypothesis: Obama's dog is called Bo. premise: The nation got its long-awaited first look at Bo in action as the Obamas showed off the family's new dog on the South Lawn. First lady Michelle Obama did most of the walking while the 6-month-old Portuguese water dog scampered about. Then daughter Malia took a turn, and Bo took off running. The girls grinned as they played with Bo. Sasha clapped her hands at one point, calling for the dog's attention. Plainly pleased, the president said, "He's a star. He's got star quality."	entailment
958	hypothesis: Sakina M'Sa has Comoros origins. premise: In the glamorous, exclusive world of French haute couture, Sakina M'Sa is an unlikely star. Like her creations, M'Sa is the sum of many parts - a tiny woman from the Comoros, an immigrant from a working-class neighbourhood in Marseille, and a designer who follows her own dreams and embroiders the fashion world with a social conscience. "My only strength in life is my difference," says M'Sa, dressed all in black and sitting in her workshop and showroom in La Goutte d'Or, a working-class neighbourhood in Paris which is home to a large population of Africans.	entailment
1,716	hypothesis: Rennyo reached Yoshizaki in 1471. premise: Forced to flee attack again in 1471 Rennyo travelled to Yoshizaki, where he built a popular temple which attracted many peasant converts from the region.	entailment
1,361	hypothesis: John Grace works for QSFA. premise: The Catering JLC formulates pay and conditions proposals of workers in the industry which, if approved by the Labour Court, legally binds employers to pay certain wage rates and provide conditions of employment. However,the QSFA now contends that the JLC has no right to make such a legally binding provision, as Section 15 of the Constitution states that the sole and exclusive power to make laws is vested in the Oireachtas, and no other authority has power to make laws for the State. It also argued that the existence of the minimum wage and 25 other pieces of legislation protecting employees' rights means that there is no need for JLCs. The chairman of the QSFA, John Grace, warned that the situation would lead to job losses and closures.	entailment
2,280	hypothesis: Most of the illegal votes cast in the election went to Gregoire. premise: He determined that there were 1,678 illegal votes cast in the election, but he said Republicans had provided no real proof that illegal votes benefited Gregoire.	not_entailment
1,652	hypothesis: Andreotti collaborates with the Mafia. premise: September 26 - Trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins.	not_entailment
2,370	hypothesis: British servicemen detained premise: Iran will soon release eight British servicemen detained along with three vessels	entailment
2,117	hypothesis: The Extra Girl was produced by Sennett. premise: The Extra Girl (1923) is a story of a small-town girl, Sue Graham (played by Mabel Normand) who comes to Hollywood to be in the pictures. This Mabel Normand vehicle, produced by Mack Sennett, followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor's "Show People" (1928).	entailment
806	hypothesis: J.K. Rowling is the author of "Harry Potter". premise: Bless Me, Ultima has survived a challenge in New York without being banned, or indeed, burned. It came in 75th on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. By comparison, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh positions are occupied by Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, respectively.	entailment
1,710	hypothesis: Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines. premise: Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.	not_entailment
2,374	hypothesis: Cyprus was divided on April 24, 2004. premise: The two sectors of the divided island of Cyprus held a referendum on reunification on Saturday, April 24, 2004.	not_entailment
1,625	hypothesis: Stalin deported 800,000 Chechens. premise: Historians estimate that 800,000 Chechens were stuffed into rail cars and deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and 240,000 of them died en route.	not_entailment
828	hypothesis: Mr Carstens lost his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month. premise: Mr Carstens left his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month to work with Mr Calderon, and will now lead efforts to push through market reforms and create more jobs.	not_entailment
2,464	hypothesis: EU leaders take part in an EU-Japan summit. premise: Ahern, who was travelling to Tokyo for an EU-Japan summit yesterday, will consult with other EU leaders about the election of the EU commission president.	not_entailment
2,198	hypothesis: Peru debates border region with Ecuador. premise: The presidents of Ecuador and Peru say they have agreed to work together to try to find a peaceful solution to their long-running border dispute.	entailment
1,264	hypothesis: Mahmoud Abbas has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. premise: Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.	entailment
2,176	hypothesis: David Wells' comments drew a quick response from the players' union and the commissioner's office. premise: The comments made by Wells today, regarding the commissioner of baseball, do not in any way reflect the views of the club, Sox said in a statement.	not_entailment
372	hypothesis: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the center of Italy. premise: In Jerusalem, the faithful celebrated Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to mark the site where Jesus was crucified, buried and then resurrected. Brown-robed friars marched into the church to the sound of bagpipes, followed by clergymen in purple capes and others bearing crosses. And in the earthquake-ravaged central Italian city of L'Aquila, survivors gathered in makeshift chapels set up in tent cities that are housing some of the 55,000 people driven from their homes by Monday's 6.3-magnitude temblor.	entailment
131	hypothesis: Nicolas Cage's son is called Kal-el. premise: Although they were born on different planets, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's new son and Superman have something in common - both were named Kal-el.	entailment
1,833	hypothesis: In the late 1980s Budapest became the center of the reform movement. premise: Budapest again became the focus of national political drama in the late 1980s, when Hungary led the reform movement in eastern Europe that broke the communist monopoly on political power and ushered in the possibility of multiparty politics.	entailment
821	hypothesis: Matthias Egger, MD, director of the department of social and preventive medicine (ISPM) at the University of Berne, Switzerland, led the study. premise: According to Professor Matthias Egger, from the University of Berne, and Swiss colleagues from Zurich University and a UK team at the University of Bristol, homeopathy has no such evidence.	not_entailment
1,098	hypothesis: Cyrus issued a declaration in 538 that would allow the Jews to go back to their homeland. premise: In the year 538, Cyrus set in place a policy which demanded the return of the various gods to their proper places.	not_entailment
2,423	hypothesis: Women are poorly represented in parliament. premise: Women form half the population and 54% of the voters in the country, yet are very poorly represented in parliament.	entailment
71	hypothesis: skin cancer numbers increase. premise: Weinstock painstakingly reviewed dozens of studies for evidence of any link between sunscreen use and either an increase or decrease in melanoma.	not_entailment
2,284	hypothesis: Ms. Sheehan, whose son was killed last year in an attack in Iraq, left her camp Thursday, for Los Angeles to be with her mother, Shirley Miller, who suffered a stroke. premise: Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, died last year in Iraq, started her antiwar demonstration along the roadside in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, demanding to meet with the president.	not_entailment
936	hypothesis: Buffalo is not far from Newark. premise: A Continental Connection flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house about four to six miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 50 people, officials said. Continental Airlines Flight 3407 is a daily commuter flight from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, operated under the Continental Connection brand by Virginia-based regional airline Colgan Air.	not_entailment
611	hypothesis: Castro visits the UN. premise: Cuban Leader Fidel Castro sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan assuring him that Cuba will follow anti-terrorism treaties in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks against New York and Washington.	not_entailment
1,526	hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 U.S. citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones near the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Tan Son Nhut Airfield.	entailment
2,114	hypothesis: Republicans control both Houses and the White House. premise: As a late September report by the Democrats points out, Republicans have done a poor job at getting their own small business bills through Congress even though they control both Houses and the White House.	entailment
529	hypothesis: Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing. premise: Two trains collided in Shandong, China 4:41am local time on Monday killing at least 71 people and injuring over 400, including four French citizens. It is still not known exactly how many people were on either of the trains. The collision occurred in Zibo when one of the trains traveling from Beijing to Qingdao jumped tracks and collided head on with a train traveling in the opposite direction from Yantai to Xuzhou. Both of the trains are reported to have been traveling at their maximum speeds when they collided.	not_entailment
109	hypothesis: John Glenn was the first man in orbit. premise: Nine months later, John Glenn becomes the first American man to orbit the Earth.	not_entailment
1,801	hypothesis: Majel Roddenberry died of cancer. premise: Roddenberry was probably most known for her role as the voice of the computers in nearly every Star Trek television spinoff series from the 1960's to present time. She is also the voice of the computer in the upcoming movie by director J.J. Abrams, Star Trek. Majel also played Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek series starring William Shatner and later played Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.	not_entailment
2,406	hypothesis: The Bracamonte Battalion was attacked by guerrillas. premise: According to COPREFA, another soldier was wounded in a guerrilla ambush against the elite Bracamonte Battalion on a highway in central El Salvador.	entailment
670	hypothesis: Hugo Chávez acts as Venezuela's president. premise: As leaders gather in Argentina ahead of this weekends regional talks, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's populist president is using an energy windfall to win friends and promote his vision of 21st-century socialism.	entailment
992	hypothesis: Rachida Dati has Moroccan origins. premise: THE French justice minister who returned to work five days after having a baby, only to lose her job, launched a political comeback last week, letting it be known that she will run for mayor of Paris. Rachida Dati, 43, long seen as President Nicolas Sarkozy's favourite among the "Sarko-zettes" - his women ministers - lost his confidence and was ordered to leave the cabinet and instead run for the European parliament. She used the launch of her party's European election campaign to deny she was a Sarkozy creation and to add gravitas to the "bling-bling" image attached to her since she posed in a £15,000 Christian Dior dress at a fashion gala.	not_entailment
588	hypothesis: The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union. premise: Since '82 Federal Chancellor (elected by "constructive vote of no confidence" against former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Social Democratic Party (SPD); reelected 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1994). This makes Helmut Kohl the longest-serving chancellor of the Federal Republic, passing by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor, this October.	not_entailment
574	hypothesis: Vanunu's disclosures in 1968 led experts to conclude that Israel has a stockpile of nuclear warheads. premise: Vanunu, 49, was abducted by Israeli agents and convicted of treason in 1986 after discussing his work as a mid-level Dimona technician with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.	not_entailment
699	hypothesis: Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake. premise: It is the country's aging nuclear facility that currently concerns Armenian environmental groups as well as those in neighboring countries. Twenty miles west of the capital Yerevan, Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1970s and houses two VVER-440 Model V230 nuclear reactors. Metsamor, which currently produces about 40 percent of the country's electricity, is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union because of the devastating Dec. 7, 1988, earthquake in Spitak.	entailment
1,328	hypothesis: The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva. premise: RED VERSUS YELLOW In broad terms, Thailand's crisis is a battle between the "yellow shirts" -- royalists, the military and urban Thais, who back Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva -- and the "red shirts" -- supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra whose power base was mainly drawn from the country's millions of rural poor. Bureaucratic and military elites have run Thailand for decades, with the poor excluded except during elections when competing parties would try to buy their votes. When Thaksin swept to power in 2000, promising a raft of policies aimed at the poor, things changed.	entailment
1,906	hypothesis: The terrorist may have caused suicide attacks and kidnappings. premise: The terrorist is suspected of being behind several deadly kidnappings and dozens of suicide attacks in Iraq.	entailment
556	hypothesis: American tobacco companies began to diversify production. premise: PM tried to buy the Belin biscuit company from RJR Nabisco two years ago.	not_entailment
822	hypothesis: Mine waste-water poses an environmental hazard. premise: The dam covering what used to be its football pitch fill up with millions of tons of poisonous mining waste.	not_entailment
1,936	hypothesis: UK troops stormed a police station in Iraq. premise: British armor crashed into a jail in order to free the two soldiers who were arrested by Iraqi police and militiamen.	not_entailment
618	hypothesis: CERN head office is in Paris. premise: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday that repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost up to €16.6 million or $21 million. The LHC, which is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, is located near the border of France and Switzerland and crosses the border four times. It has a diameter of 27 km (17 miles). It is designed to simulate the conditions shortly after the Big Bang, but it broke down on September 19 due to an electrical failure.	not_entailment
1,183	hypothesis: Our substances remove stains. premise: The substances that our company uses do not leave stains, do not have an unpleasant smell and are not toxic.	not_entailment
535	hypothesis: The Murray-Darling Basin is in central Australia. premise: THE persistence and severity of the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin has been described as "unprecedented" after late summer inflows to the river system fell to a 117-year low. The "bleak'' outlook for next three months was adding to the grim news, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority said. Irrigation water for Australia's food bowl will be dependent almost entirely on rainfall as basin states hold back water for critical human needs. "The persistence and severity of this drought, particularly over the past three years, is unprecedented,'' authority chief executive Rob Freeman said as he delivered the basin's latest drought update.	not_entailment
493	hypothesis: Guido Demoor was assassinated by Joe Van Holsbeeck. premise: Just one week before the elections, Antwerp was the scene of the 0110 concerts, organised against racism, extremism and gratuitous violence. The event was spurred by a series of acts of "pointless violence" during the last year (the murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck, the case Hans Van Themsche and the events surrounding Guido Demoor. However, Vlaams Belang asked many musicians to boycott the event, because it "only targets Vlaams Belang". The party considered the concerts as a direct attack by the political establishment. Since 1989, the other parties have instituted a cordon sanitaire against Vlaams Belang, forcing them into the opposition, notwithstanding their increasing electorial success.	not_entailment
416	hypothesis: JonBenét Ramsey killed John Mark Karr in 1996. premise: John Mark Karr, 41, a former elementary school teacher, has confessed to killing 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey in 1996. Karr, an American, was arrested in an apartment located in Bangkok, Thailand. Karr called the killing an "accident", thereby implying that it was not murder, which requires intent. "I was with JonBenét when she died. I loved JonBenét. She died accidentally. I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenét. It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident," Karr told reporters in a press conference yesterday. When Karr was asked by a reporter if he was innocent, regarding Ramsey's murder, he simply replied "no." Karr also said that it would take "several hours" to describe what happened to Ramsey.	not_entailment
2,357	hypothesis: An Israeli official was killed by patriotic union leftist militants. premise: According to an Israeli official, the murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.	not_entailment
1,719	hypothesis: Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%. premise: The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.	entailment
1,575	hypothesis: Mental health problems increase in the young. premise: Mental health problems in children and adolescents are on the rise, the British Medical Association has warned, and services are ill-equipped to cope.	entailment
217	hypothesis: Xochimilco is a popular tourist attraction because of its chinampas, or floating gardens. premise: At the southeastern tip of the city, Xochimilco, another small town subsumed by the city, is a popular tourist destination because of its chinampas, or "floating gardens," boats made out of reeds on which the Indians have grown plants since pre-Columbian times.	entailment
1,979	hypothesis: Over the coming days, thousands of people are expected to make the decision to return to New Orleans. premise: Thousands of people are expected to return to New Orleans this week, as areas of the city are opened up to residents.	entailment
2,460	hypothesis: The Commission investigated 200 people and oragnisations, before charging them, in order to prevent them from responding prior to the official release of the report. premise: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigators submitted the preliminary results of their work in early October to around 200 organisations and individuals to warn them of charges against them and to give them the opportunity to respond before final drafting of the report.	not_entailment
1,325	hypothesis: Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano. premise: Olympic officials familiar with Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games have described in recent weeks a process by which Salt Lake City Olympic officials targeted the votes of 17 African IOC members after losing by four votes to Nagano, Japan, for the right to play host to the 1998 Winter Olympics.	entailment
360	hypothesis: Jim Tracy was fired by Paul DePodesta. premise: Jim Tracy became the latest to be shown the door in Paul DePodesta's restructuring of the Los Angeles Dodgers.	entailment
1,300	hypothesis: Adrianna Bachan lived in the USC campus. premise: They were killed on the same day, in the same way. One of the deaths captured the attention of a city and spurred the Los Angeles Police Department into overdrive. The other slipped by unnoticed, leaving a lone detective with little more to go on than hope. Adrianna Bachan died first. Shortly after 3 a.m. March 29, Bachan, 18, and a friend stood at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street on the edge of the USC campus. Returning home after a night out, the two students stepped into the crosswalk and started across Jefferson.	not_entailment
2,070	hypothesis: Norovirus is the source of the outbreak on the ship. premise: Preliminary tests identified the source of the outbreak as the highly contagious norovirus, which had struck several guests just before they boarded the cruise Nov. 3 in Rome, Carnival officials said.	entailment
1,271	hypothesis: The Inner City Little League is sponsored by Chicago White Sox Charities. premise: Chicago White Sox Charities also provides annual ongoing support to programs such as Special Olympics and the Inner City Little League.	entailment
693	hypothesis: Ms. Miers was a leader of an evangelical church. premise: Ms. Miers' whole life was based in Dallas and revolved around her legal work, her family and an attachment to an evangelical church that led her to what her former pastor described as a flowering of faith late in life.	not_entailment
304	hypothesis: In Australia a toxin made birds healthy. premise: Western Australian government authorities say they believe a toxin may be responsible for the recent mysterious death of an estimated 5,000 birds found in the area of Esperance - on the state's south eastern coastline. Autopsies by toxicologists from the WA Department of Agriculture will test for organochlorins, organophosphates and heavy metals.	not_entailment
176	hypothesis: Alexander the Great's Tomb remains undiscovered. premise: The royal tombs at Vergina were identified as the ancient capital of Aigai in the 1930s. A royal tomb identified as possibly Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander the Great's father, was found in 1977 by Manolis Andronikos.	not_entailment
1,991	hypothesis: Rabies is fatal in humans. premise: Rabies is a viral disease of mammals and is transmitted primarily through bites. Annually, 7,000 to 8,000 rabid animals are detected in the United States, with more than 90 percent of the cases in wild animals.	not_entailment
1,874	hypothesis: Mabel Normand starred in The Extra Girl. premise: The Extra Girl (1923) is a story of a small-town girl, Sue Graham (played by Mabel Normand) who comes to Hollywood to be in the pictures. This Mabel Normand vehicle, produced by Mack Sennett, followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidors Show People (1928).	entailment
2,156	hypothesis: The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times. premise: Talks between the Boston Globe and its unions continued past a midnight deadline amid threats that the newspaper could be closed within weeks. Its owner, The New York Times, said it would file a notice with the government on Monday that it would shut the paper if there was no agreement on cost cuts. The owners want the unions to agree to $20m (£13.4m) in money saving measures. Guaranteed jobs for life are expected to be a sticking point, with the unions saying they are not negotiable.	entailment
1,367	hypothesis: Over 2 million people died of AIDS last year. premise: The memorandum noted the United Nations estimated that 2.5 million to 3.5 million people died of AIDS last year.	entailment
560	hypothesis: In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. premise: He interviewed Shigeko Sasamori in December 2004. Ms. Sasamori was thirteen when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).	entailment
3	hypothesis: The previous name of Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon. premise: Judie Vivian, chief executive at ProMedica, a medical service company that helps sustain the 2-year-old Vietnam Heart Institute in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), said that so far about 1,500 children have received treatment.	entailment
1,351	hypothesis: The American Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Russia called the United States about the bombings on Iraq. premise: The American State Department announced that Russia recalled her ambassador to the United States "for consultation" due to the bombing operations on Iraq.	not_entailment
1,983	hypothesis: Felipe Calderon is the President of Mexico. premise: Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, seems to be doing all the right things in cracking down on Mexico's drug traffickers. He's appointed new people to key military and criminal justice positions, deployed troops to quell drug violence, reasserted federal police power, extradited a few major traffickers to the United States, and given a green light to legislation clarifying Mexico's drug laws. But all this provides little reason to hope that Mexico has really turned a corner in its efforts to control the illegal drug trade. For a guide to what's in store, one need only look at past sexenios (the six year terms of Mexican presidents).	entailment
698	hypothesis: The Dow Jones has gained points. premise: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), one of the main stock indices in the United States, has broken an all-time closing record, to close at 14,000.41 points which is up 82.19 points (0.59%) from its last close. Just 59 days before, the Dow hit an all-time high when it passed 13,000. This is the first time the DJIA has ever closed above 14,000 since its debut on May 26, 1896.	entailment
290	hypothesis: The U.S. chose Paul Bremer as new governor of Iraq. premise: The U.S. handed power on June 30 to Iraq's interim government chosen by the United Nations and Paul Bremer, former governor of Iraq.	not_entailment
537	hypothesis: Lucy fossils have been discovered 3.3 million years ago. premise: The world's oldest known child has been discovered in East Africa in an area known appropriately as the Cradle of Humanity. The 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in north Ethiopia's badlands along the Great Rift Valley (map of Ethiopia). The skeleton, belonging to the primitive human species Australopithecus afarensis, is remarkable for its age and completeness, even for a region spectacularly rich in fossils of our ancient ancestors, experts say. The new find may even trump the superstar fossil of the same species: "Lucy," a 3.2-million-year-old adult female discovered nearby in 1974 that reshaped theories of human evolution. (Related: "Fossil Find Is Missing Link in Human Evolution, Scientists Say" [April 2006].) .	not_entailment
335	hypothesis: Lord Ganesha is important for Hindus. premise: Lord Ganesha occupies a special god status in Hindu tradition, and is considered as the bestower of all auspiciousness and destroyer of all negativity. Typically these festive celebrations last from one to 11 days, concluding with a Nimajjan ceremony (immersing the deity in the waters of lake/pond/river/sea/ocean etc). These celebrations are splendidly carried out in India amidst strict security as thousands participate. However; several Indian Hindu communities spread across the globe from Australia to North America have celebrated with no less pomp.	entailment
305	hypothesis: Adrian Lyne is the director of "Indecent Proposal". premise: The biopic of wannabe actor, Johnny Stompanato, may be directed by Adrian Lyne of "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" fame.	entailment
69	hypothesis: Hugh Jackman plays the role of Wolverine in the movie. premise: The Tempe Hometown Premiere will have all the trappings of a mega-Hollywood event including red carpet arrivals, klieg lights, screaming fans, paparazzi and media coverage of the film`s stars headed by Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman and including Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, will.i.am and director Gavin Hood. Following a hard-fought contest stretching over thousands of cities and towns across the United States, Tempe emerged triumphant in a far-reaching, citywide bid to nab the gala event. Mayor Hugh Hallman himself rallied the community, which stepped up with dozens of videos that were posted on YouTube.	entailment
1,621	hypothesis: Deng Xiaoping is 90 years old. premise: Amid rumors that China's 90-year-old senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, is near death, the visit also comes at a propitious moment to establish relationships with top officials, both military and civilian, who are likely to play a role in the post-Deng succession period as China struggles to find a new leader.	entailment
521	hypothesis: It's unclear whether Wednesday's twist will affect the timing of Google's initial public offering. premise: In Wednesday's filing, Google said it planned to complete the IPO "as soon as practicable."	not_entailment
2,356	hypothesis: Oil prices surged. premise: Energy analysts said oil prices could soar as high as $80 a barrel and drivers in the U.S. could soon be paying $3 a gallon for gasoline, if damage reports from oil companies bear bad news.	not_entailment
66	hypothesis: Some Australians have fasted to protest. premise: The former leader of Iraq was rushed to hospital last Sunday after refusing to eat for sixteen days. But according to news agencies, he has ended the hunger strike by eating lunch at the court in Baghdad. "Saddam ate beef and rice and cola with bread which he brought from hospital," one source told Reuters news agency. He was fasting with three co-defendants, and they were demanding more security for their defence lawyers, three of whom have been murdered.	not_entailment
405	hypothesis: MCI shareholders accepted a $6.7 billion offer over Qwest's initial $8 billion. premise: Qwest's revised bid, which did not offer more cash for MCI stock as expected, was deemed disappointing by one major MCI shareholder, and Qwest's shares fell more than 8 percent.	not_entailment
291	hypothesis: The best scorer at the World Championship in 1966 was "The Black Pearl." premise: The Black Panther, or "The Black Pearl", as he was known, was top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, with nine goals to his name.	entailment
1,170	hypothesis: Cruise was in Leicester Square when he was squirted with water. premise: The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square, doing press interviews, Sunday, when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.	entailment
52	hypothesis: The soldiers were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols. premise: The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.	not_entailment
2,458	hypothesis: MNJ is an organization of Tuareg rebels. premise: Tuareg fighters launched uprisings in the Sahara in the 1960s and 1990s, and renewed rebellions since early 2007 against the central governments of Niger and Mali have increased instability in a region where al Qaeda cells also operate. Fighting in Niger's rebellion, instigated by the Niger Justice Movement (MNJ), has killed more than 300 rebels and around 80 government soldiers. The MNJ says it is fighting for equality with black Africans in the south of the country, more political autonomy and a greater say in the use of mineral resources from the north, which has a booming uranium mining industry.	not_entailment
1,587	hypothesis: Voting will take place in the American House of Representatives today, on the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal. premise: The American House of Representatives is due to vote today, on a resolution submitted by the Chairman of the Judicial Committee, Henry Hyde, asking Congress to launch an investigation over charges brought forward by Independent Prosecutor-General Kenneth Star against President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair.	entailment
1,651	hypothesis: After the service, Lennon attempted to speak to victims and protesters. premise: After the service, Lennon left the cathedral, made his way through a crush of reporters and television cameras and talked briefly with protesters, some of whom say they are victims of abusive priests.	entailment
118	hypothesis: A woman succeeds in climbing Everest solo. premise: British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to climb Mount Everest alone and without oxygen tanks.	entailment
1,613	hypothesis: Workers strike in response to Norwegian employers' threats. premise: Oil prices edged up today as Norwegian employers said they would respond to a strike by locking out all workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output.	not_entailment
462	hypothesis: A railway disaster caused a fire. premise: Between 143 and 152 people have now been hospitalized in the wake of Monday's train derailment near Lviv, Ukraine, and subsequent phosporous cloud. According to the Ukrainian Healthcare Ministry's spokesperson, Igor Gerych, 43 of the injured are children, 13 are firemen and three are medical personnel. None are considered to be in mortal danger, yet some cases remain at medium risk level.	not_entailment
1,078	hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: Lt. Mark Banks, of Savannah, Ga., tends to a patient who was medically evacuated by U.S. Navy helicopter to a temporary triage site in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.	not_entailment
688	hypothesis: Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow. premise: The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.	not_entailment
866	hypothesis: Documents included secret plans for a new factory. premise: Mr Ferdinand Piech said that the German company did not have any confidential plans or documents about GM's ultra-low-cost factory project.	not_entailment
1,518	hypothesis: Sophie's World is a best seller. premise: A former philosophy teacher whose best-known novel, Sophie's World, was a surprise international best-seller.	entailment
852	hypothesis: Claudia Lawrence is 35 years old. premise: The disappearance of York University chef Claudia Lawrence is now being treated as suspected murder, North Yorkshire Police said. However detectives said they had not found any proof that the 35-year-old, who went missing on 18 March, was dead. Her father Peter Lawrence made a direct appeal to his daughter to contact him five weeks after she disappeared. His plea came at a news conference held shortly after a £10,000 reward was offered to help find Miss Lawrence. Crimestoppers said the sum they were offering was "significantly higher" than usual because of public interest in the case.	entailment

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hypothesis: Medicare will choose 10 percent of applicants to receive benefits by Aug. 16. premise: Medicare will select by lottery 10 percent of those who apply by Aug. 16 to begin receiving benefits starting Sept. 1.

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hypothesis: Slovenia has 5.5 million inhabitants. premise: In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.

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hypothesis: In the early 1990s Brazil began to take action to save the rainforest. premise: Since 1987, however, Brazil has taken steps to dramatically reduce the destruction, including stepped-up enforcement and the elimination of tax incentives that led to large-scale land clearing.

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hypothesis: North Korea says it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and is building more. premise: World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.

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hypothesis: baby elephant born premise: On November 25, 2001, a baby Asian elephant was born at the National Zoo in Washington, DC.

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hypothesis: Obama's dog is called Bo. premise: The nation got its long-awaited first look at Bo in action as the Obamas showed off the family's new dog on the South Lawn. First lady Michelle Obama did most of the walking while the 6-month-old Portuguese water dog scampered about. Then daughter Malia took a turn, and Bo took off running. The girls grinned as they played with Bo. Sasha clapped her hands at one point, calling for the dog's attention. Plainly pleased, the president said, "He's a star. He's got star quality."

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hypothesis: Sakina M'Sa has Comoros origins. premise: In the glamorous, exclusive world of French haute couture, Sakina M'Sa is an unlikely star. Like her creations, M'Sa is the sum of many parts - a tiny woman from the Comoros, an immigrant from a working-class neighbourhood in Marseille, and a designer who follows her own dreams and embroiders the fashion world with a social conscience. "My only strength in life is my difference," says M'Sa, dressed all in black and sitting in her workshop and showroom in La Goutte d'Or, a working-class neighbourhood in Paris which is home to a large population of Africans.

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hypothesis: Rennyo reached Yoshizaki in 1471. premise: Forced to flee attack again in 1471 Rennyo travelled to Yoshizaki, where he built a popular temple which attracted many peasant converts from the region.

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hypothesis: John Grace works for QSFA. premise: The Catering JLC formulates pay and conditions proposals of workers in the industry which, if approved by the Labour Court, legally binds employers to pay certain wage rates and provide conditions of employment. However,the QSFA now contends that the JLC has no right to make such a legally binding provision, as Section 15 of the Constitution states that the sole and exclusive power to make laws is vested in the Oireachtas, and no other authority has power to make laws for the State. It also argued that the existence of the minimum wage and 25 other pieces of legislation protecting employees' rights means that there is no need for JLCs. The chairman of the QSFA, John Grace, warned that the situation would lead to job losses and closures.

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hypothesis: Most of the illegal votes cast in the election went to Gregoire. premise: He determined that there were 1,678 illegal votes cast in the election, but he said Republicans had provided no real proof that illegal votes benefited Gregoire.

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hypothesis: Andreotti collaborates with the Mafia. premise: September 26 - Trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins.

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hypothesis: British servicemen detained premise: Iran will soon release eight British servicemen detained along with three vessels

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hypothesis: The Extra Girl was produced by Sennett. premise: The Extra Girl (1923) is a story of a small-town girl, Sue Graham (played by Mabel Normand) who comes to Hollywood to be in the pictures. This Mabel Normand vehicle, produced by Mack Sennett, followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidor's "Show People" (1928).

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hypothesis: J.K. Rowling is the author of "Harry Potter". premise: Bless Me, Ultima has survived a challenge in New York without being banned, or indeed, burned. It came in 75th on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. By comparison, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh positions are occupied by Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, respectively.

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hypothesis: Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines. premise: Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.

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2,374

hypothesis: Cyprus was divided on April 24, 2004. premise: The two sectors of the divided island of Cyprus held a referendum on reunification on Saturday, April 24, 2004.

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hypothesis: Stalin deported 800,000 Chechens. premise: Historians estimate that 800,000 Chechens were stuffed into rail cars and deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and 240,000 of them died en route.

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hypothesis: Mr Carstens lost his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month. premise: Mr Carstens left his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month to work with Mr Calderon, and will now lead efforts to push through market reforms and create more jobs.

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2,464

hypothesis: EU leaders take part in an EU-Japan summit. premise: Ahern, who was travelling to Tokyo for an EU-Japan summit yesterday, will consult with other EU leaders about the election of the EU commission president.

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2,198

hypothesis: Peru debates border region with Ecuador. premise: The presidents of Ecuador and Peru say they have agreed to work together to try to find a peaceful solution to their long-running border dispute.

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1,264

hypothesis: Mahmoud Abbas has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election. premise: Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.

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hypothesis: David Wells' comments drew a quick response from the players' union and the commissioner's office. premise: The comments made by Wells today, regarding the commissioner of baseball, do not in any way reflect the views of the club, Sox said in a statement.

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hypothesis: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the center of Italy. premise: In Jerusalem, the faithful celebrated Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to mark the site where Jesus was crucified, buried and then resurrected. Brown-robed friars marched into the church to the sound of bagpipes, followed by clergymen in purple capes and others bearing crosses. And in the earthquake-ravaged central Italian city of L'Aquila, survivors gathered in makeshift chapels set up in tent cities that are housing some of the 55,000 people driven from their homes by Monday's 6.3-magnitude temblor.

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hypothesis: Nicolas Cage's son is called Kal-el. premise: Although they were born on different planets, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's new son and Superman have something in common - both were named Kal-el.

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hypothesis: In the late 1980s Budapest became the center of the reform movement. premise: Budapest again became the focus of national political drama in the late 1980s, when Hungary led the reform movement in eastern Europe that broke the communist monopoly on political power and ushered in the possibility of multiparty politics.

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hypothesis: Matthias Egger, MD, director of the department of social and preventive medicine (ISPM) at the University of Berne, Switzerland, led the study. premise: According to Professor Matthias Egger, from the University of Berne, and Swiss colleagues from Zurich University and a UK team at the University of Bristol, homeopathy has no such evidence.

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hypothesis: Cyrus issued a declaration in 538 that would allow the Jews to go back to their homeland. premise: In the year 538, Cyrus set in place a policy which demanded the return of the various gods to their proper places.

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2,423

hypothesis: Women are poorly represented in parliament. premise: Women form half the population and 54% of the voters in the country, yet are very poorly represented in parliament.

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hypothesis: skin cancer numbers increase. premise: Weinstock painstakingly reviewed dozens of studies for evidence of any link between sunscreen use and either an increase or decrease in melanoma.

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hypothesis: Ms. Sheehan, whose son was killed last year in an attack in Iraq, left her camp Thursday, for Los Angeles to be with her mother, Shirley Miller, who suffered a stroke. premise: Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, died last year in Iraq, started her antiwar demonstration along the roadside in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, demanding to meet with the president.

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hypothesis: Buffalo is not far from Newark. premise: A Continental Connection flight from Newark to Buffalo crashed into a house about four to six miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport on Thursday night, killing 50 people, officials said. Continental Airlines Flight 3407 is a daily commuter flight from Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York, operated under the Continental Connection brand by Virginia-based regional airline Colgan Air.

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hypothesis: Castro visits the UN. premise: Cuban Leader Fidel Castro sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan assuring him that Cuba will follow anti-terrorism treaties in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks against New York and Washington.

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1,526

hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: President Ford reported that a force of 70 evacuation helicopters and 865 Marines had evacuated about 1,400 U.S. citizens and 5,500 third country nationals and South Vietnamese from landing zones near the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the Tan Son Nhut Airfield.

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hypothesis: Republicans control both Houses and the White House. premise: As a late September report by the Democrats points out, Republicans have done a poor job at getting their own small business bills through Congress even though they control both Houses and the White House.

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hypothesis: Zibo is in the vicinity of Beijing. premise: Two trains collided in Shandong, China 4:41am local time on Monday killing at least 71 people and injuring over 400, including four French citizens. It is still not known exactly how many people were on either of the trains. The collision occurred in Zibo when one of the trains traveling from Beijing to Qingdao jumped tracks and collided head on with a train traveling in the opposite direction from Yantai to Xuzhou. Both of the trains are reported to have been traveling at their maximum speeds when they collided.

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hypothesis: John Glenn was the first man in orbit. premise: Nine months later, John Glenn becomes the first American man to orbit the Earth.

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1,801

hypothesis: Majel Roddenberry died of cancer. premise: Roddenberry was probably most known for her role as the voice of the computers in nearly every Star Trek television spinoff series from the 1960's to present time. She is also the voice of the computer in the upcoming movie by director J.J. Abrams, Star Trek. Majel also played Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek series starring William Shatner and later played Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

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2,406

hypothesis: The Bracamonte Battalion was attacked by guerrillas. premise: According to COPREFA, another soldier was wounded in a guerrilla ambush against the elite Bracamonte Battalion on a highway in central El Salvador.

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hypothesis: Hugo Chávez acts as Venezuela's president. premise: As leaders gather in Argentina ahead of this weekends regional talks, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's populist president is using an energy windfall to win friends and promote his vision of 21st-century socialism.

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hypothesis: Rachida Dati has Moroccan origins. premise: THE French justice minister who returned to work five days after having a baby, only to lose her job, launched a political comeback last week, letting it be known that she will run for mayor of Paris. Rachida Dati, 43, long seen as President Nicolas Sarkozy's favourite among the "Sarko-zettes" - his women ministers - lost his confidence and was ordered to leave the cabinet and instead run for the European parliament. She used the launch of her party's European election campaign to deny she was a Sarkozy creation and to add gravitas to the "bling-bling" image attached to her since she posed in a £15,000 Christian Dior dress at a fashion gala.

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hypothesis: The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union. premise: Since '82 Federal Chancellor (elected by "constructive vote of no confidence" against former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Social Democratic Party (SPD); reelected 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1994). This makes Helmut Kohl the longest-serving chancellor of the Federal Republic, passing by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor, this October.

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hypothesis: Vanunu's disclosures in 1968 led experts to conclude that Israel has a stockpile of nuclear warheads. premise: Vanunu, 49, was abducted by Israeli agents and convicted of treason in 1986 after discussing his work as a mid-level Dimona technician with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.

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699

hypothesis: Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake. premise: It is the country's aging nuclear facility that currently concerns Armenian environmental groups as well as those in neighboring countries. Twenty miles west of the capital Yerevan, Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1970s and houses two VVER-440 Model V230 nuclear reactors. Metsamor, which currently produces about 40 percent of the country's electricity, is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union because of the devastating Dec. 7, 1988, earthquake in Spitak.

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hypothesis: The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva. premise: RED VERSUS YELLOW In broad terms, Thailand's crisis is a battle between the "yellow shirts" -- royalists, the military and urban Thais, who back Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva -- and the "red shirts" -- supporters of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra whose power base was mainly drawn from the country's millions of rural poor. Bureaucratic and military elites have run Thailand for decades, with the poor excluded except during elections when competing parties would try to buy their votes. When Thaksin swept to power in 2000, promising a raft of policies aimed at the poor, things changed.

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hypothesis: The terrorist may have caused suicide attacks and kidnappings. premise: The terrorist is suspected of being behind several deadly kidnappings and dozens of suicide attacks in Iraq.

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556

hypothesis: American tobacco companies began to diversify production. premise: PM tried to buy the Belin biscuit company from RJR Nabisco two years ago.

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hypothesis: Mine waste-water poses an environmental hazard. premise: The dam covering what used to be its football pitch fill up with millions of tons of poisonous mining waste.

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hypothesis: UK troops stormed a police station in Iraq. premise: British armor crashed into a jail in order to free the two soldiers who were arrested by Iraqi police and militiamen.

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618

hypothesis: CERN head office is in Paris. premise: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday that repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost up to €16.6 million or $21 million. The LHC, which is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, is located near the border of France and Switzerland and crosses the border four times. It has a diameter of 27 km (17 miles). It is designed to simulate the conditions shortly after the Big Bang, but it broke down on September 19 due to an electrical failure.

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hypothesis: Our substances remove stains. premise: The substances that our company uses do not leave stains, do not have an unpleasant smell and are not toxic.

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hypothesis: The Murray-Darling Basin is in central Australia. premise: THE persistence and severity of the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin has been described as "unprecedented" after late summer inflows to the river system fell to a 117-year low. The "bleak'' outlook for next three months was adding to the grim news, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority said. Irrigation water for Australia's food bowl will be dependent almost entirely on rainfall as basin states hold back water for critical human needs. "The persistence and severity of this drought, particularly over the past three years, is unprecedented,'' authority chief executive Rob Freeman said as he delivered the basin's latest drought update.

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hypothesis: Guido Demoor was assassinated by Joe Van Holsbeeck. premise: Just one week before the elections, Antwerp was the scene of the 0110 concerts, organised against racism, extremism and gratuitous violence. The event was spurred by a series of acts of "pointless violence" during the last year (the murder of Joe Van Holsbeeck, the case Hans Van Themsche and the events surrounding Guido Demoor. However, Vlaams Belang asked many musicians to boycott the event, because it "only targets Vlaams Belang". The party considered the concerts as a direct attack by the political establishment. Since 1989, the other parties have instituted a cordon sanitaire against Vlaams Belang, forcing them into the opposition, notwithstanding their increasing electorial success.

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hypothesis: JonBenét Ramsey killed John Mark Karr in 1996. premise: John Mark Karr, 41, a former elementary school teacher, has confessed to killing 6-year-old JonBenét Ramsey in 1996. Karr, an American, was arrested in an apartment located in Bangkok, Thailand. Karr called the killing an "accident", thereby implying that it was not murder, which requires intent. "I was with JonBenét when she died. I loved JonBenét. She died accidentally. I am so very sorry for what happened to JonBenét. It's very important for me that everyone knows that I love her very much, that her death was unintentional, that it was an accident," Karr told reporters in a press conference yesterday. When Karr was asked by a reporter if he was innocent, regarding Ramsey's murder, he simply replied "no." Karr also said that it would take "several hours" to describe what happened to Ramsey.

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2,357

hypothesis: An Israeli official was killed by patriotic union leftist militants. premise: According to an Israeli official, the murders of Galan, a high-ranking police officer, and a judge last week were probably carried out by an Israeli mercenary paid by the Medellin cartel - the world's most powerful drug-trafficking mafia - which has set up paramilitary squads accused of hundreds of individual murders and massacres against political and labor leaders, as well as peasants and patriotic union leftist militants in different parts of the country.

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hypothesis: Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%. premise: The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.

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hypothesis: Mental health problems increase in the young. premise: Mental health problems in children and adolescents are on the rise, the British Medical Association has warned, and services are ill-equipped to cope.

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hypothesis: Xochimilco is a popular tourist attraction because of its chinampas, or floating gardens. premise: At the southeastern tip of the city, Xochimilco, another small town subsumed by the city, is a popular tourist destination because of its chinampas, or "floating gardens," boats made out of reeds on which the Indians have grown plants since pre-Columbian times.

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hypothesis: Over the coming days, thousands of people are expected to make the decision to return to New Orleans. premise: Thousands of people are expected to return to New Orleans this week, as areas of the city are opened up to residents.

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hypothesis: The Commission investigated 200 people and oragnisations, before charging them, in order to prevent them from responding prior to the official release of the report. premise: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's investigators submitted the preliminary results of their work in early October to around 200 organisations and individuals to warn them of charges against them and to give them the opportunity to respond before final drafting of the report.

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hypothesis: Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano. premise: Olympic officials familiar with Salt Lake City's bid for the 2002 Winter Games have described in recent weeks a process by which Salt Lake City Olympic officials targeted the votes of 17 African IOC members after losing by four votes to Nagano, Japan, for the right to play host to the 1998 Winter Olympics.

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hypothesis: Jim Tracy was fired by Paul DePodesta. premise: Jim Tracy became the latest to be shown the door in Paul DePodesta's restructuring of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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hypothesis: Adrianna Bachan lived in the USC campus. premise: They were killed on the same day, in the same way. One of the deaths captured the attention of a city and spurred the Los Angeles Police Department into overdrive. The other slipped by unnoticed, leaving a lone detective with little more to go on than hope. Adrianna Bachan died first. Shortly after 3 a.m. March 29, Bachan, 18, and a friend stood at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Hoover Street on the edge of the USC campus. Returning home after a night out, the two students stepped into the crosswalk and started across Jefferson.

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hypothesis: Norovirus is the source of the outbreak on the ship. premise: Preliminary tests identified the source of the outbreak as the highly contagious norovirus, which had struck several guests just before they boarded the cruise Nov. 3 in Rome, Carnival officials said.

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hypothesis: The Inner City Little League is sponsored by Chicago White Sox Charities. premise: Chicago White Sox Charities also provides annual ongoing support to programs such as Special Olympics and the Inner City Little League.

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hypothesis: Ms. Miers was a leader of an evangelical church. premise: Ms. Miers' whole life was based in Dallas and revolved around her legal work, her family and an attachment to an evangelical church that led her to what her former pastor described as a flowering of faith late in life.

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hypothesis: In Australia a toxin made birds healthy. premise: Western Australian government authorities say they believe a toxin may be responsible for the recent mysterious death of an estimated 5,000 birds found in the area of Esperance - on the state's south eastern coastline. Autopsies by toxicologists from the WA Department of Agriculture will test for organochlorins, organophosphates and heavy metals.

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hypothesis: Alexander the Great's Tomb remains undiscovered. premise: The royal tombs at Vergina were identified as the ancient capital of Aigai in the 1930s. A royal tomb identified as possibly Philip II of Macedonia, Alexander the Great's father, was found in 1977 by Manolis Andronikos.

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hypothesis: Rabies is fatal in humans. premise: Rabies is a viral disease of mammals and is transmitted primarily through bites. Annually, 7,000 to 8,000 rabid animals are detected in the United States, with more than 90 percent of the cases in wild animals.

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hypothesis: Mabel Normand starred in The Extra Girl. premise: The Extra Girl (1923) is a story of a small-town girl, Sue Graham (played by Mabel Normand) who comes to Hollywood to be in the pictures. This Mabel Normand vehicle, produced by Mack Sennett, followed earlier films about the film industry and also paved the way for later films about Hollywood, such as King Vidors Show People (1928).

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hypothesis: The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times. premise: Talks between the Boston Globe and its unions continued past a midnight deadline amid threats that the newspaper could be closed within weeks. Its owner, The New York Times, said it would file a notice with the government on Monday that it would shut the paper if there was no agreement on cost cuts. The owners want the unions to agree to $20m (£13.4m) in money saving measures. Guaranteed jobs for life are expected to be a sticking point, with the unions saying they are not negotiable.

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hypothesis: Over 2 million people died of AIDS last year. premise: The memorandum noted the United Nations estimated that 2.5 million to 3.5 million people died of AIDS last year.

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hypothesis: In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. premise: He interviewed Shigeko Sasamori in December 2004. Ms. Sasamori was thirteen when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).

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hypothesis: The previous name of Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon. premise: Judie Vivian, chief executive at ProMedica, a medical service company that helps sustain the 2-year-old Vietnam Heart Institute in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), said that so far about 1,500 children have received treatment.

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hypothesis: The American Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Russia called the United States about the bombings on Iraq. premise: The American State Department announced that Russia recalled her ambassador to the United States "for consultation" due to the bombing operations on Iraq.

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hypothesis: Felipe Calderon is the President of Mexico. premise: Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon, seems to be doing all the right things in cracking down on Mexico's drug traffickers. He's appointed new people to key military and criminal justice positions, deployed troops to quell drug violence, reasserted federal police power, extradited a few major traffickers to the United States, and given a green light to legislation clarifying Mexico's drug laws. But all this provides little reason to hope that Mexico has really turned a corner in its efforts to control the illegal drug trade. For a guide to what's in store, one need only look at past sexenios (the six year terms of Mexican presidents).

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hypothesis: The Dow Jones has gained points. premise: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), one of the main stock indices in the United States, has broken an all-time closing record, to close at 14,000.41 points which is up 82.19 points (0.59%) from its last close. Just 59 days before, the Dow hit an all-time high when it passed 13,000. This is the first time the DJIA has ever closed above 14,000 since its debut on May 26, 1896.

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hypothesis: The U.S. chose Paul Bremer as new governor of Iraq. premise: The U.S. handed power on June 30 to Iraq's interim government chosen by the United Nations and Paul Bremer, former governor of Iraq.

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hypothesis: Lucy fossils have been discovered 3.3 million years ago. premise: The world's oldest known child has been discovered in East Africa in an area known appropriately as the Cradle of Humanity. The 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in north Ethiopia's badlands along the Great Rift Valley (map of Ethiopia). The skeleton, belonging to the primitive human species Australopithecus afarensis, is remarkable for its age and completeness, even for a region spectacularly rich in fossils of our ancient ancestors, experts say. The new find may even trump the superstar fossil of the same species: "Lucy," a 3.2-million-year-old adult female discovered nearby in 1974 that reshaped theories of human evolution. (Related: "Fossil Find Is Missing Link in Human Evolution, Scientists Say" [April 2006].) .

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hypothesis: Lord Ganesha is important for Hindus. premise: Lord Ganesha occupies a special god status in Hindu tradition, and is considered as the bestower of all auspiciousness and destroyer of all negativity. Typically these festive celebrations last from one to 11 days, concluding with a Nimajjan ceremony (immersing the deity in the waters of lake/pond/river/sea/ocean etc). These celebrations are splendidly carried out in India amidst strict security as thousands participate. However; several Indian Hindu communities spread across the globe from Australia to North America have celebrated with no less pomp.

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hypothesis: Adrian Lyne is the director of "Indecent Proposal". premise: The biopic of wannabe actor, Johnny Stompanato, may be directed by Adrian Lyne of "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" fame.

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hypothesis: Hugh Jackman plays the role of Wolverine in the movie. premise: The Tempe Hometown Premiere will have all the trappings of a mega-Hollywood event including red carpet arrivals, klieg lights, screaming fans, paparazzi and media coverage of the film`s stars headed by Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman and including Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, will.i.am and director Gavin Hood. Following a hard-fought contest stretching over thousands of cities and towns across the United States, Tempe emerged triumphant in a far-reaching, citywide bid to nab the gala event. Mayor Hugh Hallman himself rallied the community, which stepped up with dozens of videos that were posted on YouTube.

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hypothesis: Deng Xiaoping is 90 years old. premise: Amid rumors that China's 90-year-old senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, is near death, the visit also comes at a propitious moment to establish relationships with top officials, both military and civilian, who are likely to play a role in the post-Deng succession period as China struggles to find a new leader.

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hypothesis: It's unclear whether Wednesday's twist will affect the timing of Google's initial public offering. premise: In Wednesday's filing, Google said it planned to complete the IPO "as soon as practicable."

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hypothesis: Oil prices surged. premise: Energy analysts said oil prices could soar as high as $80 a barrel and drivers in the U.S. could soon be paying $3 a gallon for gasoline, if damage reports from oil companies bear bad news.

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hypothesis: Some Australians have fasted to protest. premise: The former leader of Iraq was rushed to hospital last Sunday after refusing to eat for sixteen days. But according to news agencies, he has ended the hunger strike by eating lunch at the court in Baghdad. "Saddam ate beef and rice and cola with bread which he brought from hospital," one source told Reuters news agency. He was fasting with three co-defendants, and they were demanding more security for their defence lawyers, three of whom have been murdered.

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hypothesis: MCI shareholders accepted a $6.7 billion offer over Qwest's initial $8 billion. premise: Qwest's revised bid, which did not offer more cash for MCI stock as expected, was deemed disappointing by one major MCI shareholder, and Qwest's shares fell more than 8 percent.

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hypothesis: The best scorer at the World Championship in 1966 was "The Black Pearl." premise: The Black Panther, or "The Black Pearl", as he was known, was top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, with nine goals to his name.

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hypothesis: Cruise was in Leicester Square when he was squirted with water. premise: The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square, doing press interviews, Sunday, when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.

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hypothesis: The soldiers were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols. premise: The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.

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hypothesis: MNJ is an organization of Tuareg rebels. premise: Tuareg fighters launched uprisings in the Sahara in the 1960s and 1990s, and renewed rebellions since early 2007 against the central governments of Niger and Mali have increased instability in a region where al Qaeda cells also operate. Fighting in Niger's rebellion, instigated by the Niger Justice Movement (MNJ), has killed more than 300 rebels and around 80 government soldiers. The MNJ says it is fighting for equality with black Africans in the south of the country, more political autonomy and a greater say in the use of mineral resources from the north, which has a booming uranium mining industry.

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hypothesis: Voting will take place in the American House of Representatives today, on the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal. premise: The American House of Representatives is due to vote today, on a resolution submitted by the Chairman of the Judicial Committee, Henry Hyde, asking Congress to launch an investigation over charges brought forward by Independent Prosecutor-General Kenneth Star against President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair.

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hypothesis: After the service, Lennon attempted to speak to victims and protesters. premise: After the service, Lennon left the cathedral, made his way through a crush of reporters and television cameras and talked briefly with protesters, some of whom say they are victims of abusive priests.

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hypothesis: A woman succeeds in climbing Everest solo. premise: British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to climb Mount Everest alone and without oxygen tanks.

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hypothesis: Workers strike in response to Norwegian employers' threats. premise: Oil prices edged up today as Norwegian employers said they would respond to a strike by locking out all workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output.

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hypothesis: A railway disaster caused a fire. premise: Between 143 and 152 people have now been hospitalized in the wake of Monday's train derailment near Lviv, Ukraine, and subsequent phosporous cloud. According to the Ukrainian Healthcare Ministry's spokesperson, Igor Gerych, 43 of the injured are children, 13 are firemen and three are medical personnel. None are considered to be in mortal danger, yet some cases remain at medium risk level.

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hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: Lt. Mark Banks, of Savannah, Ga., tends to a patient who was medically evacuated by U.S. Navy helicopter to a temporary triage site in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.

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hypothesis: Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow. premise: The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.

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hypothesis: Documents included secret plans for a new factory. premise: Mr Ferdinand Piech said that the German company did not have any confidential plans or documents about GM's ultra-low-cost factory project.

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hypothesis: Sophie's World is a best seller. premise: A former philosophy teacher whose best-known novel, Sophie's World, was a surprise international best-seller.

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hypothesis: Claudia Lawrence is 35 years old. premise: The disappearance of York University chef Claudia Lawrence is now being treated as suspected murder, North Yorkshire Police said. However detectives said they had not found any proof that the 35-year-old, who went missing on 18 March, was dead. Her father Peter Lawrence made a direct appeal to his daughter to contact him five weeks after she disappeared. His plea came at a news conference held shortly after a £10,000 reward was offered to help find Miss Lawrence. Crimestoppers said the sum they were offering was "significantly higher" than usual because of public interest in the case.

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