stjokerli/TextToText_axb_seqio · Datasets at Hugging Face

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1,006	hypothesis: There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW. premise: GM established grounds for suspicion of industrial spying by presenting affidavits from its employees. The aim will be to determine if VW's project was copied from GM data - essential if industrial espionage is to be proved.	entailment
697	hypothesis: Klaus Pohl is a German dramatist. premise: A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.	entailment
1,340	hypothesis: A case of rabies was confirmed. premise: By the time a case of rabies is confirmed, the disease may have taken hold in the area.	not_entailment
76	hypothesis: Clay Roueche is 33 years old. premise: SEATTLE — United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche should spend at least 30 years behind bars after his surprise guilty plea here Tuesday for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and illicit drug profits, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan said. Sullivan said outside court that Roueche's leadership of the violent UN gang and the sophistication of the international drug conspiracy will all be factors used to argue for a longer sentence — up to life — for the 33-year-old Canadian. And he stressed that the plea agreement reached with Roueche did not include "any kind of break with respect to sentencing.".	entailment
733	hypothesis: The Pharos Lighthouse was built around 280 BC. premise: The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.	entailment
2,410	hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during hostilities between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces.	entailment
496	hypothesis: Denmark and Sweden tie. premise: Euro-Scandinavian media cheer Denmark v Sweden draw.	entailment
105	hypothesis: Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank. premise: The British tabloids portrayed Nicholas Leeson as a working-class villain who single-handedly brought down Barings PLC, a 233-year-old London merchant bank that helped finance the Napoleonic wars.	not_entailment
314	hypothesis: Two people were killed in Bangladesh. premise: On Tuesday morning police in Bangladesh have blamed Islamic militants for what's believed to be the country's first suicide bombings. Up to ten people were killed and dozens of others injured in the two attacks. The attacks left at least 50 people wounded with many of them said to be in critical condition. The government has accused the hardline Jamayetul Mujahideen, which wants to introduce strict Islamic law in the Muslim-majority democracy, of staging the attacks targeting the legal system. Bangladesh police have arrested six men, including a suicide squad member in different parts of the country, in the last two days.	not_entailment
1,313	hypothesis: The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as Hamas. premise: Muslim fundamentalists such as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the smaller Islamic Jihad are determined to torpedo the peace process.	entailment
2,296	hypothesis: Ahmadinejad is a citizen of Iran. premise: Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.	entailment
666	hypothesis: An Alzheimer patient was in Michigan for an assisted suicide. premise: Janet Elaine Adkins, 54, used a controversial machine to commit suicide in Michigan.	not_entailment
1,668	hypothesis: Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party. premise: President Bill Clinton on Tuesday passed the leadership of the Democratic Party to Vice President Al Gore, describing his deputy as the right person to be the first U.S. President of the 21st century.	entailment
1,796	hypothesis: Tuesday, preliminary quarterly results will be announced. premise: San Francisco (Reuters) -- Dell Inc. plans to announce preliminary quarterly results after the market closes Tuesday, after last week delaying their release due to accounting complexities related to a regulatory probe.	entailment
2,265	hypothesis: It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union. premise: Also ruled out, for the moment, is any tie-up with a new alliance of Social Democrat dissidents and former communists known as the Left Party, which garnered 8.7%.	not_entailment
831	hypothesis: Alexander Bortnikov lives in Chechnya. premise: The Russian government announced the termination of its "counterterrorism operation" in Chechnya effective April 16. According to the leader of the Russian secret service, Alexander Bortnikov, 20,000 soldiers will leave Chechnya in order to normalise the situation in the autonomous republic of Russia. This happened on behalf of the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who had already announced a possible withdrawal of the Russian troops at the G20 summit in the beginning of April this year. But some forces, the special forces of Moscow's ministry of the interior, will still stay in Chechnya. Human rights activist Lew Ponomarjov welcomed the situation, saying that the counterterrorism situation in Chechnya had been a severe violation of human rights.	not_entailment
2,331	hypothesis: Parliamentary elections may lead to a new government in France. premise: France is the only country with two fully governmental elections. Parliamentary elections in France, when they create a new parliamentary majority, lead to a new government.	entailment
2,128	hypothesis: Jack Straw holds the position of UK Foreign Secretary. premise: UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Iraqis had "shown again their determination to defy the terrorists and take part in the democratic process".	entailment
253	hypothesis: Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds. premise: Most of the mines are in arid areas and animals searching for water are attracted to the cyanide-laced holding ponds that are an integral part of the mining operations.	not_entailment
1,103	hypothesis: Greenhouse effect changes global climate. premise: Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost.	not_entailment
2,139	hypothesis: Millions of dollars of art were recovered, including works by Dali. premise: Stolen Warhol works recovered: Amsterdam police said Wednesday that they have recovered stolen lithographs by the late U.S. pop artist Andy Warhol worth more than $1 million. Dali's paintings are still missing.	not_entailment
596	hypothesis: Renzo Piano is an architect. premise: Practically every architect of international stature has vied for the bonanza of public and private projects -- including Renzo Piano, Peter Eisenman, Philip Johnson, Rafael Moneo, Helmut Jahn and Richard Rogers.	entailment
2,209	hypothesis: Three Iraqi soldiers also died Saturday when their convoy was attacked by gunmen near Adhaim. premise: Also Friday, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine wounded in a bombing, targeting their convoy near Beiji, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.	not_entailment
759	hypothesis: Michael McLendon has killed his child in Samson. premise: A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself. Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents. The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border. Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family. The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon.	not_entailment
2,478	hypothesis: Wal-Mart complains about negative publicity. premise: Wal-Mart has received a lot of negative publicity recently, including allegations that it used illegal workers and made employees work without pay during lunch breaks, as well as complaints that it generally underpays employees.	not_entailment
1,986	hypothesis: The slender tower is the tallest building in Japan. premise: The slender tower is the second tallest building in Japan.	not_entailment
1,957	hypothesis: Jennifer Lopez will not perform in Portugal. premise: Among the 21 candidates left over after the previous election round ended on January 1, 2006, the Acropolis and the Maya archeological site of Chichen Itza were doing well in earlier rankings. A spokeswoman for the Foundation said earlier this month that the result is wide open. The election ceremony will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Hollywood actress Hilary Swank, British actor Sir Ben Kingsley and Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu have been announced as hosts, astronaut Neil Armstrong will be present, and performers will include Jennifer Lopez and Chaka Khan.	not_entailment
1,282	hypothesis: We estimate that the Big Bang happened 20 years ago. premise: Perhaps there is no expansion, at least not due to a big bang which never happened. About 20 years ago, Halton Arp and John Bahcall published a debate in The Redshift Controversy, presenting both sides of the argument.	not_entailment
1,327	hypothesis: Microsoft Windows is an operating system. premise: Hoping to loosen Microsoft's ironclad grip on the personal computer desktop, a tiny Seattle company will unveil an onscreen menu bar Monday that bypasses Windows with direct links to programs and the Internet.	not_entailment
929	hypothesis: Dam building prevents life-threatening situations. premise: For example, the fields of Western farmers feed the United States and many other parts of the world, and India's irrigation systems have enabled that country to be self-sufficient in food production since 1974. In addition, in many parts of the world dams have helped to remedy life-threatening problems such as poverty from lack of economic development, famine as a result of drought, devastation from floods, and continued disease from lack of potable water supplies.	entailment
1,025	hypothesis: The Berlin Wall was torn down in November, 1989. premise: When the Berlin Wall fell in early November, 1989 Berlin's east and west sections were rejoined to create the third-largest city in Europe , with a population of about 3 million.	entailment
86	hypothesis: Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci. premise: On April 28 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot and hanged in a spectacle that was photographed repeatedly.	entailment
2,341	hypothesis: Time Warner is the world's largest company. premise: Time Warner is the world's largest media and Internet company.	not_entailment
968	hypothesis: David Petraeus is the director of the CIA. premise: Mr Fitzgibbon expects some of the 17,000 additional US troops heading for Afghanistan will bolster Australian forces operating in the dangerous Oruzgan province in the south. The defence minister was planning to raise the issue specifically with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. He has already held talks with US central command chief General David Petraeus and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta. General Petraeus discussed the new US strategy for Afghanistan and the troop surge in which an extra 17,000 troops will be deployed in the southern provinces where Taliban insurgents have been most active.	not_entailment
441	hypothesis: It was like removing the lottery. premise: It was like hitting the jackpot.	not_entailment
971	hypothesis: Staten Island ferry captain has refused to talk with investigators. premise: City officials fired the captain of the crashed Staten Island ferry.	not_entailment
262	hypothesis: An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank. premise: According to the captain, the 1999 ferry was inspected by the Transport Ministry on December 9 and was certified to be in good condition. "It seems that due to the weather conditions the chance is little, but we still hope," Djamal stated. With 17 crew members, and carrying 200 tons of cargo, the ill-fated PT Nur Budi owned and operated ferry sank so fast that the crew "had no chance to ask the passengers to wear life jackets."	not_entailment
1,824	hypothesis: The AU said it may send a 2 000-strong peacekeeping force. premise: Francis Deng believes the government will be receptive to the plan to deploy 1,800 peacekeeping troops.	not_entailment
272	hypothesis: Lana Clarkson and Phil Spector were engaged. premise: (CBS/ AP) Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago. A Superior Court jury returned the verdict after an estimated 29 to 30 hours of deliberations. The jury had the option of choosing involuntary manslaughter, but did not do so. Spector had no obvious reaction. His attorney argued that he should remain free on bail pending the May 29 sentencing but Judge Larry Paul Fidler accepted the prosecution's argument that he be remanded to jail immediately.	not_entailment
1,784	hypothesis: The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: Naval units evacuated U.S. civilians and military personnel from the Tachen Islands.	entailment
1,948	hypothesis: There is a territorial waters dispute. premise: The disputed waters lie close to the Sipadan and Ligitan islands, which Indonesia lost to Malaysia in a legal battle in the International Court of Justice in December 2002.	entailment
997	hypothesis: A Sioux ghost shirt was returned by a Scottish museum. premise: The Sioux Ghost Shirt was a feature of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum for more than 100 years before being repatriated to its land of origin.	entailment
25	hypothesis: Pibul was a young leader. premise: The two young leaders of the coup, Pibul Songgram and Pridi Phanomyang, both educated in Europe and influenced by Western ideas, came to dominate Thai politics in the ensuing years.	entailment
1,897	hypothesis: Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics. premise: Well, the yolk is on us, the bacteria are winning, and at a record pace.	not_entailment
1,746	hypothesis: A tiger attacked three people in San Francisco. premise: A zoo worker is dead and two visitors are seriously injured after a Siberian tiger escaped from the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California in the United States and attacked three people who were inside a cafe. The tiger was shot dead by police who were called to the scene. They found the tiger attacking one of the zoo visitors when they killed it.	entailment
506	hypothesis: Jose Padilla did not support terrorism. premise: Jose Padilla, who is a former Chicago gang member, was found by jury to be guilty of supporting Islamic terrorist groups abroad. The co-defendants, Adham Hassoun and Kifan Jayyousi were also found guilty on conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim people in a foreign country; conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists; and providing material support for terrorists.	not_entailment
349	hypothesis: Muslims are monotheistic. premise: Like Jews and Christians, Muslims believe there is only one God.	entailment
2,321	hypothesis: New Orleans Saints are property of Tom Benson. premise: A force majeure is an act of God, said attorney Phil Wittmann, who represents the New Orleans Saints and owner Tom Benson's local interests.	entailment
455	hypothesis: The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York. premise: Elephants have never lost the capacity to astonish and delight. But in New York City in the not-so-distant future, they will not be doing their astonishing and delighting at a zoo. The Bronx Zoo, the only zoo left in the city that keeps elephants, said yesterday that it planned to shut down its exhibit after the death of two of its three elephants, or even one. The current generation of children need not despair: The zoo's three elephants — Patty, Maxine and Happy — are in their mid-30's and could live for decades more. But if one elephant dies, the remaining two may not get along. And if two die, officials say it would be inhumane to sustain an exhibit with a single elephant.	not_entailment
1,110	hypothesis: In the Netherlands five grams of cannabis can be legally held in possession. premise: Cannabis is freely available in the Netherlands for sale in "coffee shops" in small quantities. The cost of five grammes, the maximum amount that can be legally purchased, is about £.50 ($19), enough to make about a dozen cigarettes.	entailment
1,287	hypothesis: Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation. premise: Then China rolled out the fake Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, a teenager chosen as the reincarnation of a major lama by the atheist Communist leaders and trained since childhood to spout nationalist slogans while wearing robes. Newspapers reporting on the debacle generally tried to present both sides, but it seems fair to say there's really only one side to this sham and that pretty much nobody in the Tibetan community accepts Norbu as the real Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama's choice for Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, has been in secret Chinese custody since 1995.	entailment
16	hypothesis: Sierra once reached the finals of "American Idol". premise: Sierra is likely to remain in jail at the Hillsborough County jail in her native Tampa until her next hearing on December 20, where she is being held without bail, which would prevent her attending the Washington event on Friday even if she still had permission to perform. Sierra has been in jail since the start of the month after an altercation with police officers outside a Tampa nightclub, which she had been ejected from. She is charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest.	not_entailment
1,476	hypothesis: The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1950. premise: The Dalai Lama has offered to send 50 trained teachers from the exile community to help the educational development of Tibet.	not_entailment
675	hypothesis: Mawlavi Waqifi lived in the southeastern province of Khost. premise: Hakimi also claimed that the rebels killed Mawlavi Waqifi, a religious leader in the southeastern province of Khost.	entailment
1,588	hypothesis: Victoria Petrucelly is a student from the Christ School. premise: Two 8-year-old girls in Orlando, Florida, located in the United States have made a big donation to the research and curing of breast cancer. Victoria Petrucelly and Jesse Theobald along with classmates from their third grade class at The Christ School, raised almost US$24,000 by setting up lemonade stands and selling pink lemonade. The two girls were thinking about starting the lemonade stand in 2008, but were inspired to donate money when Petrucelly's mother, who suffered from the disease, died on Valentine's Day, February 14.	entailment
853	hypothesis: Offers by individual European governments, involved supplies of crude or refined oil products. premise: Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.	entailment
2,450	hypothesis: Greece and Macedonia are in dispute over name. premise: Macedonia seems confident it can weather the storm, but some fear Athens may soon take things up a notch.	not_entailment
500	hypothesis: Zhao was arrested in 1989. premise: Zhao, who died at 85, was a reformer who was removed from office, and imprisoned, in 1989 after denouncing the use of force against student protesters in Tiananmen Square.	entailment
2,302	hypothesis: Seal-hunting endangers species. premise: Seal hunting has been a tradition in Norway for thousands of years, but has dwindled recently with only about half the annual 1,200 quota being killed each year.	not_entailment
2,129	hypothesis: EU leaders found an agreement about a candidate to the post of European commission president. premise: Ahern, who was travelling to Tokyo for an EU-Japan summit yesterday, will consult with other EU leaders by telephone later this week in an effort to find an agreed candidate to presidency of the European commission.	not_entailment
2,485	hypothesis: Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. premise: There is none. They found as many weapons in this masjid as they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.	not_entailment
2,010	hypothesis: Abuja is located in Adamawa State. premise: I recently took a round trip from Abuja to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State and back to Abuja, with a fourteen-seater bus.	not_entailment
639	hypothesis: 24 people died in an airplane crash. premise: Twenty-four people, among them seven children, were killed on Sunday after their airplane crashed in a river in Brazil. Four people survived the crash, including a 9-year-old boy. The aircraft, which was a twin-engine Embraer turboprop chartered by Manaus Aerotaxis, was carrying 26 passengers and two crew members when it crashed. The pilots of the plane, which had departed from Coari, had supposedly contacted the air traffic control near their destination of Manaus to announce that they were turning back. The plane, however, then disappeared from radar. The plane made an emergency landing in the river Manacapuru, a branch the Amazon river in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Manaus.	entailment
717	hypothesis: A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life. premise: Hurricane Isabel was a tropical storm when she entered Virginia, but caused damage to 75% of the state, making it one of the costliest disasters in Virginia's history.	entailment
1,909	hypothesis: A chartered jet, filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday in Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. premise: Investigators in Venezuela have been combing the grisly wreck of a Colombian plane which crashed on Tuesday, killing all 160 people on board.	not_entailment
2,361	hypothesis: Cameroon honey gatherers use cyanide to stun bees. premise: At the very outskirts of commerce, Baka pygmies in southeastern Cameroon use a cyanide compound to stun bees while raiding their nests for honey.	entailment
1,671	hypothesis: Time Warner is based in Cingular. premise: A bid topping $17.7 billion was jointly proffered by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation on Thursday to buy beleaguered Adelphia Communications Corporation in an industry consolidation move. Adelphia is the fifth largest cable service provider in the United States with nearly 5 million subscribers. The market-share grabbing bid trumps the previous Cablevision offer of $16.5 billion. The bid is under scrutiny by the presiding judge over the Adelphia's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and must also be approved by the company's creditors owed in the range of $20 million.	not_entailment
288	hypothesis: Weapons inspectors will go back to Iraq. premise: The weapon Inspectors have had since 1991 to peacefully disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.	not_entailment
1,971	hypothesis: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is affiliated with Al-Qaeda. premise: There have been reports that the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was wounded in Iraq. Internet statements on Al-Qaeda websites Tuesday and Thursday asked Muslims to pray for al-Zarqawi and said that an interim leader named Abu Hafs al-Gerni had been appointed. The credibility of these statements is currently unverified. Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr did allege that the statements were correct, however. During a news conference, he reported, "We are not sure whether he is dead or not, but we are sure that he is injured."	entailment
1,017	hypothesis: Siena was beaten by A.S. Roma. premise: A.S. Roma suffered their second home defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 loss to 10-man Siena.	not_entailment
648	hypothesis: A FEMA team is based in California. premise: The two rescuers who retrieved him are firefighters with a California-based FEMA team: J.D. Madden of Santa Clara and Eric Mijangos of Menlo Park.	entailment
1,012	hypothesis: French is the most widely spoken language in Québec. premise: French is the mother tongue of 80.9 percent of Québeckers, while 7.8 percent cite English as their mother tongue.	entailment
1,972	hypothesis: CIA secret prisons were located in Eastern Europe. premise: A leading human rights group on Wednesday identified Poland and Romania as the likely locations in eastern Europe of secret prisons where al-Qaeda suspects are interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency.	entailment
583	hypothesis: Wehkamp was based in the UK. premise: GUS on Friday disposed of its remaining home shopping business and last non-UK retail operation with the 390m (265m) sale of the Dutch home shopping company, Wehkamp, to Industri Kapital, a private equity firm.	not_entailment
1,370	hypothesis: Pilar is the mother of Schneider. premise: Although Schneider's father, Marvin, died of complications from diabetes only two weeks after "Deuce Bigalow" was released, his Filipino mother Pilar continues to live in Pacifica.	entailment
252	hypothesis: John Kerry was friends with Hunter S. Thompson. premise: On Feb. 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. The family will shortly provide more information about memorial service and media contacts. Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family, Juan Thompson said in a statement issued to Aspen Daily News. The death was confirmed by Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis. Hunter S. Thompson was best known for his 1972 book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". He was recently married and had emotionally supported his friend John Kerry's candidacy.	entailment
1,877	hypothesis: FIFA selects world football player of the year 1994. premise: Zinedine Zidane has beaten Thierry Henry and Ronaldo to the Fifa 2003 World Player of the Year award.	not_entailment
1,842	hypothesis: The world population is 5.6 billion. premise: The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.	entailment
996	hypothesis: Crude oil prices rise. premise: Crude oil prices shot to new highs yesterday as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company	entailment
2,319	hypothesis: Chris Evans worked for Radio 1. premise: Warrington-born Chris Evans denies he went wild, despite quitting Radio 1 in 1997 and later being sacked by Virgin Radio for not turning up for work during a five-day drinking binge.	entailment
1,525	hypothesis: Tom Cruise is married to Oprah Winfrey. premise: Tom Cruise has returned to The Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about his love for Katie Holmes, but this time he was denying marital problems instead of jumping on the couch to prove his passion for the young actress. "That's laughable to me," Cruise said when Winfrey told him there was speculation that "what you and Katie have is not real". It was the first time Cruise appeared on the show since his couch-hopping stunt three years ago drew a flood of satire and ridicule. "It was something that I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her. That's just how I felt," he said in the interview, which aired on Friday in the US.	not_entailment
1,019	hypothesis: Demonstrations against G8 Summit took place at Sea Island bay. premise: Security preparations kept protestors at bay at the recent G8 Summit on Sea Island (USA).	not_entailment
323	hypothesis: U.N. officials take part in a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval. premise: Like the United States, U.N. officials are also dismayed that Aristide killed a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval in Port-au-Prince in hopes of bringing all the feuding parties together.	not_entailment
2,206	hypothesis: A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York was arrested. premise: A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of hundreds of ancient Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York 11 years ago was arrested Thursday at his South Los Angeles home, where he had been hiding the antiquities.	entailment
1,026	hypothesis: India and Pakistan have decided to free hundreds of civilian prisoners in each others jails. premise: India and Pakistan have agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails, a goodwill measure that comes as part of a peace process between the two countries.	entailment
1,663	hypothesis: Priscilla Presley told fans, "you're helping Elvis make history again." premise: Priscilla Presley greeted thousands of cheering Elvis fans at a concert Friday night, marking the 25th anniversary of the King's death, telling them "you're helping Elvis make history again."	entailment
1,642	hypothesis: Mark David Chapman killed Lennon. premise: Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980.	entailment
1,014	hypothesis: AIDS spreads in Africa. premise: The most recent figures from UNAids show a continent divided in two. In north Africa, up to 0.5% of the population has been infected with HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, that figure is 8.8% but rising to almost 40% in some countries. In four countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - at least one in three of the population is HIV positive.	entailment
1,368	hypothesis: The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3746 kilometers. premise: Mars has the smallest confirmed moon, Deimos, which is about 7.5 miles in diameter.	not_entailment
1,056	hypothesis: J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle. premise: Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.	not_entailment
694	hypothesis: RJR built factories in Turkey. premise: RJ Reynolds Tobacco announced yesterday that it plans to build a factory in Turkey to produce cigarettes by late 1993.	not_entailment
928	hypothesis: The United States threatened the "severest consequences" if Iraq were to use chemical or biological weapons against the United States, destroy Kuwaiti oil fields or participate in terrorism. premise: Sentiment is growing in the Bush administration and global energy circles to place Iraqi professionals in charge of their country's oil production after any war, despite a push by some officials for the United States to seize control of the lucrative oil fields.	not_entailment
406	hypothesis: A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia. premise: The summit was marred by criticism of Tunisia for allowing attacks on journalists and human rights defenders to occur in the days leading up to the event. A French journalist for "Libération" was stabbed and beaten by unidentified men after he reported on local human rights protesters. A Belgian television crew was harassed and forced to hand over footage of Tunisian dissidents, while local human rights defenders were roughed up and prevented from organising a meeting with international civil society groups. A representative from the French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, Robert Menard, was prevented from disembarking from his Air France flight to Tunis to attend the summit.	entailment
1,421	hypothesis: Maulana Sufi Muhammad is the leader of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi. premise: Taliban have started to pull out of the Buner district in northwestern Pakistan in the light of successful talks among all stakeholders, local newspaper The News reported on Saturday. The administration of North West Frontier Province, Taliban and an outlawed group Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Friday held successful talks in Batkhela to stave off a looming military operation, said the report. The Taliban holding Buner district eventually agreed to vacate the area along with their arms. Soon after the talks, the administration and Taliban representatives accompanied Maulana Sufi Muhammad, founding chief of TNSM to evict the militants from Buner in their presence.	entailment
1,356	hypothesis: David Cameron works as the shadow education secretary. premise: Parents also had to contribute "much more fully", while "coasting" schools would be tackled, Ms Kelly told MPs. But shadow education secretary David Cameron, who backed some ideas, said other parts were a "complete muddle".	entailment
1,685	hypothesis: American Airlines will recall hundreds of flight attendants. premise: American Airlines began laying off hundreds of flight attendants on Tuesday, after a federal judge turned aside a union's bid to block the job losses.	entailment
937	hypothesis: The Church of Scientology murdered Lisa McPherson. premise: The Internet group Anonymous today held protests critical of the Church of Scientology. The protests marked what would have been the 49th birthday of Lisa McPherson, who is claimed to be a victim of the Church of Scientology's practices. Lisa died in 1995 during a running of what Scientologists refer to as an Introspection Rundown, a procedure intended to help Church members deal with a psychotic or deeply traumatic event.	not_entailment
1,220	hypothesis: The Dayton Peace Treaty was formulated to end the war in Bosnia. premise: In Bosnia, diplomatic determination combined with military muscle to create an opportunity to secure a peace rather than permit instability to undermine this fragile region and U.S. interests.	not_entailment
845	hypothesis: Ruth Madoff is Bernard Madoff's daughter. premise: Prosecutors, who stated their intent on Sunday to seize bonds and cash from Madoff, filed another notice on Tuesday listing assets that they intend to seize, among them "various pieces of jewelry owned or held in the name of Ruth Madoff valued at approximately $2,624,340," and "approximately 35 sets of watches and cufflinks owned by Bernard Madoff," as well as $31.5 million in loans made to Madoff's sons.	not_entailment
1,008	hypothesis: Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886. premise: Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) was a Hungarian/Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer who lived from 1811 to 1886. Liszt is widely considered to be one of the greatest piano virtuosi of all time, and certainly the most famous of the nineteenth century.	entailment

1,006

hypothesis: There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW. premise: GM established grounds for suspicion of industrial spying by presenting affidavits from its employees. The aim will be to determine if VW's project was copied from GM data - essential if industrial espionage is to be proved.

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hypothesis: Klaus Pohl is a German dramatist. premise: A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.

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hypothesis: A case of rabies was confirmed. premise: By the time a case of rabies is confirmed, the disease may have taken hold in the area.

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76

hypothesis: Clay Roueche is 33 years old. premise: SEATTLE — United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche should spend at least 30 years behind bars after his surprise guilty plea here Tuesday for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and illicit drug profits, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan said. Sullivan said outside court that Roueche's leadership of the violent UN gang and the sophistication of the international drug conspiracy will all be factors used to argue for a longer sentence — up to life — for the 33-year-old Canadian. And he stressed that the plea agreement reached with Roueche did not include "any kind of break with respect to sentencing.".

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hypothesis: The Pharos Lighthouse was built around 280 BC. premise: The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.

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2,410

hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during hostilities between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces.

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496

hypothesis: Denmark and Sweden tie. premise: Euro-Scandinavian media cheer Denmark v Sweden draw.

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105

hypothesis: Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank. premise: The British tabloids portrayed Nicholas Leeson as a working-class villain who single-handedly brought down Barings PLC, a 233-year-old London merchant bank that helped finance the Napoleonic wars.

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hypothesis: Two people were killed in Bangladesh. premise: On Tuesday morning police in Bangladesh have blamed Islamic militants for what's believed to be the country's first suicide bombings. Up to ten people were killed and dozens of others injured in the two attacks. The attacks left at least 50 people wounded with many of them said to be in critical condition. The government has accused the hardline Jamayetul Mujahideen, which wants to introduce strict Islamic law in the Muslim-majority democracy, of staging the attacks targeting the legal system. Bangladesh police have arrested six men, including a suicide squad member in different parts of the country, in the last two days.

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1,313

hypothesis: The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as Hamas. premise: Muslim fundamentalists such as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the smaller Islamic Jihad are determined to torpedo the peace process.

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hypothesis: Ahmadinejad is a citizen of Iran. premise: Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.

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666

hypothesis: An Alzheimer patient was in Michigan for an assisted suicide. premise: Janet Elaine Adkins, 54, used a controversial machine to commit suicide in Michigan.

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1,668

hypothesis: Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party. premise: President Bill Clinton on Tuesday passed the leadership of the Democratic Party to Vice President Al Gore, describing his deputy as the right person to be the first U.S. President of the 21st century.

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hypothesis: Tuesday, preliminary quarterly results will be announced. premise: San Francisco (Reuters) -- Dell Inc. plans to announce preliminary quarterly results after the market closes Tuesday, after last week delaying their release due to accounting complexities related to a regulatory probe.

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2,265

hypothesis: It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union. premise: Also ruled out, for the moment, is any tie-up with a new alliance of Social Democrat dissidents and former communists known as the Left Party, which garnered 8.7%.

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hypothesis: Alexander Bortnikov lives in Chechnya. premise: The Russian government announced the termination of its "counterterrorism operation" in Chechnya effective April 16. According to the leader of the Russian secret service, Alexander Bortnikov, 20,000 soldiers will leave Chechnya in order to normalise the situation in the autonomous republic of Russia. This happened on behalf of the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who had already announced a possible withdrawal of the Russian troops at the G20 summit in the beginning of April this year. But some forces, the special forces of Moscow's ministry of the interior, will still stay in Chechnya. Human rights activist Lew Ponomarjov welcomed the situation, saying that the counterterrorism situation in Chechnya had been a severe violation of human rights.

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2,331

hypothesis: Parliamentary elections may lead to a new government in France. premise: France is the only country with two fully governmental elections. Parliamentary elections in France, when they create a new parliamentary majority, lead to a new government.

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2,128

hypothesis: Jack Straw holds the position of UK Foreign Secretary. premise: UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Iraqis had "shown again their determination to defy the terrorists and take part in the democratic process".

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hypothesis: Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds. premise: Most of the mines are in arid areas and animals searching for water are attracted to the cyanide-laced holding ponds that are an integral part of the mining operations.

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1,103

hypothesis: Greenhouse effect changes global climate. premise: Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in disappearing Arctic ice and permafrost.

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2,139

hypothesis: Millions of dollars of art were recovered, including works by Dali. premise: Stolen Warhol works recovered: Amsterdam police said Wednesday that they have recovered stolen lithographs by the late U.S. pop artist Andy Warhol worth more than $1 million. Dali's paintings are still missing.

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596

hypothesis: Renzo Piano is an architect. premise: Practically every architect of international stature has vied for the bonanza of public and private projects -- including Renzo Piano, Peter Eisenman, Philip Johnson, Rafael Moneo, Helmut Jahn and Richard Rogers.

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hypothesis: Three Iraqi soldiers also died Saturday when their convoy was attacked by gunmen near Adhaim. premise: Also Friday, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine wounded in a bombing, targeting their convoy near Beiji, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.

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759

hypothesis: Michael McLendon has killed his child in Samson. premise: A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself. Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents. The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border. Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family. The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon.

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2,478

hypothesis: Wal-Mart complains about negative publicity. premise: Wal-Mart has received a lot of negative publicity recently, including allegations that it used illegal workers and made employees work without pay during lunch breaks, as well as complaints that it generally underpays employees.

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1,986

hypothesis: The slender tower is the tallest building in Japan. premise: The slender tower is the second tallest building in Japan.

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1,957

hypothesis: Jennifer Lopez will not perform in Portugal. premise: Among the 21 candidates left over after the previous election round ended on January 1, 2006, the Acropolis and the Maya archeological site of Chichen Itza were doing well in earlier rankings. A spokeswoman for the Foundation said earlier this month that the result is wide open. The election ceremony will be held in Lisbon, Portugal. Hollywood actress Hilary Swank, British actor Sir Ben Kingsley and Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu have been announced as hosts, astronaut Neil Armstrong will be present, and performers will include Jennifer Lopez and Chaka Khan.

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1,282

hypothesis: We estimate that the Big Bang happened 20 years ago. premise: Perhaps there is no expansion, at least not due to a big bang which never happened. About 20 years ago, Halton Arp and John Bahcall published a debate in The Redshift Controversy, presenting both sides of the argument.

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1,327

hypothesis: Microsoft Windows is an operating system. premise: Hoping to loosen Microsoft's ironclad grip on the personal computer desktop, a tiny Seattle company will unveil an onscreen menu bar Monday that bypasses Windows with direct links to programs and the Internet.

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hypothesis: Dam building prevents life-threatening situations. premise: For example, the fields of Western farmers feed the United States and many other parts of the world, and India's irrigation systems have enabled that country to be self-sufficient in food production since 1974. In addition, in many parts of the world dams have helped to remedy life-threatening problems such as poverty from lack of economic development, famine as a result of drought, devastation from floods, and continued disease from lack of potable water supplies.

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1,025

hypothesis: The Berlin Wall was torn down in November, 1989. premise: When the Berlin Wall fell in early November, 1989 Berlin's east and west sections were rejoined to create the third-largest city in Europe , with a population of about 3 million.

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86

hypothesis: Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci. premise: On April 28 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot and hanged in a spectacle that was photographed repeatedly.

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hypothesis: Time Warner is the world's largest company. premise: Time Warner is the world's largest media and Internet company.

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hypothesis: David Petraeus is the director of the CIA. premise: Mr Fitzgibbon expects some of the 17,000 additional US troops heading for Afghanistan will bolster Australian forces operating in the dangerous Oruzgan province in the south. The defence minister was planning to raise the issue specifically with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. He has already held talks with US central command chief General David Petraeus and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta. General Petraeus discussed the new US strategy for Afghanistan and the troop surge in which an extra 17,000 troops will be deployed in the southern provinces where Taliban insurgents have been most active.

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441

hypothesis: It was like removing the lottery. premise: It was like hitting the jackpot.

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971

hypothesis: Staten Island ferry captain has refused to talk with investigators. premise: City officials fired the captain of the crashed Staten Island ferry.

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262

hypothesis: An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank. premise: According to the captain, the 1999 ferry was inspected by the Transport Ministry on December 9 and was certified to be in good condition. "It seems that due to the weather conditions the chance is little, but we still hope," Djamal stated. With 17 crew members, and carrying 200 tons of cargo, the ill-fated PT Nur Budi owned and operated ferry sank so fast that the crew "had no chance to ask the passengers to wear life jackets."

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1,824

hypothesis: The AU said it may send a 2 000-strong peacekeeping force. premise: Francis Deng believes the government will be receptive to the plan to deploy 1,800 peacekeeping troops.

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272

hypothesis: Lana Clarkson and Phil Spector were engaged. premise: (CBS/ AP) Rock music producer Phil Spector was convicted Monday of second-degree murder in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion six years ago. A Superior Court jury returned the verdict after an estimated 29 to 30 hours of deliberations. The jury had the option of choosing involuntary manslaughter, but did not do so. Spector had no obvious reaction. His attorney argued that he should remain free on bail pending the May 29 sentencing but Judge Larry Paul Fidler accepted the prosecution's argument that he be remanded to jail immediately.

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1,784

hypothesis: The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens. premise: Naval units evacuated U.S. civilians and military personnel from the Tachen Islands.

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1,948

hypothesis: There is a territorial waters dispute. premise: The disputed waters lie close to the Sipadan and Ligitan islands, which Indonesia lost to Malaysia in a legal battle in the International Court of Justice in December 2002.

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997

hypothesis: A Sioux ghost shirt was returned by a Scottish museum. premise: The Sioux Ghost Shirt was a feature of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum for more than 100 years before being repatriated to its land of origin.

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25

hypothesis: Pibul was a young leader. premise: The two young leaders of the coup, Pibul Songgram and Pridi Phanomyang, both educated in Europe and influenced by Western ideas, came to dominate Thai politics in the ensuing years.

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hypothesis: Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics. premise: Well, the yolk is on us, the bacteria are winning, and at a record pace.

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1,746

hypothesis: A tiger attacked three people in San Francisco. premise: A zoo worker is dead and two visitors are seriously injured after a Siberian tiger escaped from the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California in the United States and attacked three people who were inside a cafe. The tiger was shot dead by police who were called to the scene. They found the tiger attacking one of the zoo visitors when they killed it.

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506

hypothesis: Jose Padilla did not support terrorism. premise: Jose Padilla, who is a former Chicago gang member, was found by jury to be guilty of supporting Islamic terrorist groups abroad. The co-defendants, Adham Hassoun and Kifan Jayyousi were also found guilty on conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim people in a foreign country; conspiracy to provide material support for terrorists; and providing material support for terrorists.

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349

hypothesis: Muslims are monotheistic. premise: Like Jews and Christians, Muslims believe there is only one God.

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2,321

hypothesis: New Orleans Saints are property of Tom Benson. premise: A force majeure is an act of God, said attorney Phil Wittmann, who represents the New Orleans Saints and owner Tom Benson's local interests.

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455

hypothesis: The Bronx Zoo is the biggest zoo in New York. premise: Elephants have never lost the capacity to astonish and delight. But in New York City in the not-so-distant future, they will not be doing their astonishing and delighting at a zoo. The Bronx Zoo, the only zoo left in the city that keeps elephants, said yesterday that it planned to shut down its exhibit after the death of two of its three elephants, or even one. The current generation of children need not despair: The zoo's three elephants — Patty, Maxine and Happy — are in their mid-30's and could live for decades more. But if one elephant dies, the remaining two may not get along. And if two die, officials say it would be inhumane to sustain an exhibit with a single elephant.

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1,110

hypothesis: In the Netherlands five grams of cannabis can be legally held in possession. premise: Cannabis is freely available in the Netherlands for sale in "coffee shops" in small quantities. The cost of five grammes, the maximum amount that can be legally purchased, is about £.50 ($19), enough to make about a dozen cigarettes.

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1,287

hypothesis: Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation. premise: Then China rolled out the fake Panchen Lama, Gyaltsen Norbu, a teenager chosen as the reincarnation of a major lama by the atheist Communist leaders and trained since childhood to spout nationalist slogans while wearing robes. Newspapers reporting on the debacle generally tried to present both sides, but it seems fair to say there's really only one side to this sham and that pretty much nobody in the Tibetan community accepts Norbu as the real Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama's choice for Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, has been in secret Chinese custody since 1995.

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hypothesis: Sierra once reached the finals of "American Idol". premise: Sierra is likely to remain in jail at the Hillsborough County jail in her native Tampa until her next hearing on December 20, where she is being held without bail, which would prevent her attending the Washington event on Friday even if she still had permission to perform. Sierra has been in jail since the start of the month after an altercation with police officers outside a Tampa nightclub, which she had been ejected from. She is charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest.

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1,476

hypothesis: The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1950. premise: The Dalai Lama has offered to send 50 trained teachers from the exile community to help the educational development of Tibet.

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675

hypothesis: Mawlavi Waqifi lived in the southeastern province of Khost. premise: Hakimi also claimed that the rebels killed Mawlavi Waqifi, a religious leader in the southeastern province of Khost.

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1,588

hypothesis: Victoria Petrucelly is a student from the Christ School. premise: Two 8-year-old girls in Orlando, Florida, located in the United States have made a big donation to the research and curing of breast cancer. Victoria Petrucelly and Jesse Theobald along with classmates from their third grade class at The Christ School, raised almost US$24,000 by setting up lemonade stands and selling pink lemonade. The two girls were thinking about starting the lemonade stand in 2008, but were inspired to donate money when Petrucelly's mother, who suffered from the disease, died on Valentine's Day, February 14.

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853

hypothesis: Offers by individual European governments, involved supplies of crude or refined oil products. premise: Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.

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2,450

hypothesis: Greece and Macedonia are in dispute over name. premise: Macedonia seems confident it can weather the storm, but some fear Athens may soon take things up a notch.

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500

hypothesis: Zhao was arrested in 1989. premise: Zhao, who died at 85, was a reformer who was removed from office, and imprisoned, in 1989 after denouncing the use of force against student protesters in Tiananmen Square.

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2,302

hypothesis: Seal-hunting endangers species. premise: Seal hunting has been a tradition in Norway for thousands of years, but has dwindled recently with only about half the annual 1,200 quota being killed each year.

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2,129

hypothesis: EU leaders found an agreement about a candidate to the post of European commission president. premise: Ahern, who was travelling to Tokyo for an EU-Japan summit yesterday, will consult with other EU leaders by telephone later this week in an effort to find an agreed candidate to presidency of the European commission.

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2,485

hypothesis: Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq. premise: There is none. They found as many weapons in this masjid as they found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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2,010

hypothesis: Abuja is located in Adamawa State. premise: I recently took a round trip from Abuja to Yola, the capital of Adamawa State and back to Abuja, with a fourteen-seater bus.

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639

hypothesis: 24 people died in an airplane crash. premise: Twenty-four people, among them seven children, were killed on Sunday after their airplane crashed in a river in Brazil. Four people survived the crash, including a 9-year-old boy. The aircraft, which was a twin-engine Embraer turboprop chartered by Manaus Aerotaxis, was carrying 26 passengers and two crew members when it crashed. The pilots of the plane, which had departed from Coari, had supposedly contacted the air traffic control near their destination of Manaus to announce that they were turning back. The plane, however, then disappeared from radar. The plane made an emergency landing in the river Manacapuru, a branch the Amazon river in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, 50 miles (80 kilometers) from Manaus.

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hypothesis: A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life. premise: Hurricane Isabel was a tropical storm when she entered Virginia, but caused damage to 75% of the state, making it one of the costliest disasters in Virginia's history.

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1,909

hypothesis: A chartered jet, filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday in Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. premise: Investigators in Venezuela have been combing the grisly wreck of a Colombian plane which crashed on Tuesday, killing all 160 people on board.

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2,361

hypothesis: Cameroon honey gatherers use cyanide to stun bees. premise: At the very outskirts of commerce, Baka pygmies in southeastern Cameroon use a cyanide compound to stun bees while raiding their nests for honey.

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1,671

hypothesis: Time Warner is based in Cingular. premise: A bid topping $17.7 billion was jointly proffered by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation on Thursday to buy beleaguered Adelphia Communications Corporation in an industry consolidation move. Adelphia is the fifth largest cable service provider in the United States with nearly 5 million subscribers. The market-share grabbing bid trumps the previous Cablevision offer of $16.5 billion. The bid is under scrutiny by the presiding judge over the Adelphia's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and must also be approved by the company's creditors owed in the range of $20 million.

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288

hypothesis: Weapons inspectors will go back to Iraq. premise: The weapon Inspectors have had since 1991 to peacefully disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.

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1,971

hypothesis: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is affiliated with Al-Qaeda. premise: There have been reports that the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was wounded in Iraq. Internet statements on Al-Qaeda websites Tuesday and Thursday asked Muslims to pray for al-Zarqawi and said that an interim leader named Abu Hafs al-Gerni had been appointed. The credibility of these statements is currently unverified. Iraq's Interior Minister Bayan Jabr did allege that the statements were correct, however. During a news conference, he reported, "We are not sure whether he is dead or not, but we are sure that he is injured."

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1,017

hypothesis: Siena was beaten by A.S. Roma. premise: A.S. Roma suffered their second home defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 loss to 10-man Siena.

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648

hypothesis: A FEMA team is based in California. premise: The two rescuers who retrieved him are firefighters with a California-based FEMA team: J.D. Madden of Santa Clara and Eric Mijangos of Menlo Park.

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1,012

hypothesis: French is the most widely spoken language in Québec. premise: French is the mother tongue of 80.9 percent of Québeckers, while 7.8 percent cite English as their mother tongue.

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1,972

hypothesis: CIA secret prisons were located in Eastern Europe. premise: A leading human rights group on Wednesday identified Poland and Romania as the likely locations in eastern Europe of secret prisons where al-Qaeda suspects are interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency.

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hypothesis: Wehkamp was based in the UK. premise: GUS on Friday disposed of its remaining home shopping business and last non-UK retail operation with the 390m (265m) sale of the Dutch home shopping company, Wehkamp, to Industri Kapital, a private equity firm.

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1,370

hypothesis: Pilar is the mother of Schneider. premise: Although Schneider's father, Marvin, died of complications from diabetes only two weeks after "Deuce Bigalow" was released, his Filipino mother Pilar continues to live in Pacifica.

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hypothesis: John Kerry was friends with Hunter S. Thompson. premise: On Feb. 20, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson took his life with a gunshot to the head at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colorado. The family will shortly provide more information about memorial service and media contacts. Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family, Juan Thompson said in a statement issued to Aspen Daily News. The death was confirmed by Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis. Hunter S. Thompson was best known for his 1972 book "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". He was recently married and had emotionally supported his friend John Kerry's candidacy.

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1,877

hypothesis: FIFA selects world football player of the year 1994. premise: Zinedine Zidane has beaten Thierry Henry and Ronaldo to the Fifa 2003 World Player of the Year award.

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1,842

hypothesis: The world population is 5.6 billion. premise: The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.

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hypothesis: Crude oil prices rise. premise: Crude oil prices shot to new highs yesterday as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company

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2,319

hypothesis: Chris Evans worked for Radio 1. premise: Warrington-born Chris Evans denies he went wild, despite quitting Radio 1 in 1997 and later being sacked by Virgin Radio for not turning up for work during a five-day drinking binge.

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1,525

hypothesis: Tom Cruise is married to Oprah Winfrey. premise: Tom Cruise has returned to The Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about his love for Katie Holmes, but this time he was denying marital problems instead of jumping on the couch to prove his passion for the young actress. "That's laughable to me," Cruise said when Winfrey told him there was speculation that "what you and Katie have is not real". It was the first time Cruise appeared on the show since his couch-hopping stunt three years ago drew a flood of satire and ridicule. "It was something that I just felt that way, and I feel that way about her. That's just how I felt," he said in the interview, which aired on Friday in the US.

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1,019

hypothesis: Demonstrations against G8 Summit took place at Sea Island bay. premise: Security preparations kept protestors at bay at the recent G8 Summit on Sea Island (USA).

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hypothesis: U.N. officials take part in a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval. premise: Like the United States, U.N. officials are also dismayed that Aristide killed a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval in Port-au-Prince in hopes of bringing all the feuding parties together.

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2,206

hypothesis: A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York was arrested. premise: A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of hundreds of ancient Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York 11 years ago was arrested Thursday at his South Los Angeles home, where he had been hiding the antiquities.

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hypothesis: India and Pakistan have decided to free hundreds of civilian prisoners in each others jails. premise: India and Pakistan have agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails, a goodwill measure that comes as part of a peace process between the two countries.

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1,663

hypothesis: Priscilla Presley told fans, "you're helping Elvis make history again." premise: Priscilla Presley greeted thousands of cheering Elvis fans at a concert Friday night, marking the 25th anniversary of the King's death, telling them "you're helping Elvis make history again."

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1,642

hypothesis: Mark David Chapman killed Lennon. premise: Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980.

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1,014

hypothesis: AIDS spreads in Africa. premise: The most recent figures from UNAids show a continent divided in two. In north Africa, up to 0.5% of the population has been infected with HIV. In sub-Saharan Africa, that figure is 8.8% but rising to almost 40% in some countries. In four countries - Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe - at least one in three of the population is HIV positive.

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hypothesis: The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3746 kilometers. premise: Mars has the smallest confirmed moon, Deimos, which is about 7.5 miles in diameter.

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hypothesis: J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle. premise: Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.

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694

hypothesis: RJR built factories in Turkey. premise: RJ Reynolds Tobacco announced yesterday that it plans to build a factory in Turkey to produce cigarettes by late 1993.

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hypothesis: The United States threatened the "severest consequences" if Iraq were to use chemical or biological weapons against the United States, destroy Kuwaiti oil fields or participate in terrorism. premise: Sentiment is growing in the Bush administration and global energy circles to place Iraqi professionals in charge of their country's oil production after any war, despite a push by some officials for the United States to seize control of the lucrative oil fields.

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406

hypothesis: A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia. premise: The summit was marred by criticism of Tunisia for allowing attacks on journalists and human rights defenders to occur in the days leading up to the event. A French journalist for "Libération" was stabbed and beaten by unidentified men after he reported on local human rights protesters. A Belgian television crew was harassed and forced to hand over footage of Tunisian dissidents, while local human rights defenders were roughed up and prevented from organising a meeting with international civil society groups. A representative from the French media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, Robert Menard, was prevented from disembarking from his Air France flight to Tunis to attend the summit.

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hypothesis: Maulana Sufi Muhammad is the leader of Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi. premise: Taliban have started to pull out of the Buner district in northwestern Pakistan in the light of successful talks among all stakeholders, local newspaper The News reported on Saturday. The administration of North West Frontier Province, Taliban and an outlawed group Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) Friday held successful talks in Batkhela to stave off a looming military operation, said the report. The Taliban holding Buner district eventually agreed to vacate the area along with their arms. Soon after the talks, the administration and Taliban representatives accompanied Maulana Sufi Muhammad, founding chief of TNSM to evict the militants from Buner in their presence.

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hypothesis: David Cameron works as the shadow education secretary. premise: Parents also had to contribute "much more fully", while "coasting" schools would be tackled, Ms Kelly told MPs. But shadow education secretary David Cameron, who backed some ideas, said other parts were a "complete muddle".

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hypothesis: American Airlines will recall hundreds of flight attendants. premise: American Airlines began laying off hundreds of flight attendants on Tuesday, after a federal judge turned aside a union's bid to block the job losses.

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hypothesis: The Church of Scientology murdered Lisa McPherson. premise: The Internet group Anonymous today held protests critical of the Church of Scientology. The protests marked what would have been the 49th birthday of Lisa McPherson, who is claimed to be a victim of the Church of Scientology's practices. Lisa died in 1995 during a running of what Scientologists refer to as an Introspection Rundown, a procedure intended to help Church members deal with a psychotic or deeply traumatic event.

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hypothesis: The Dayton Peace Treaty was formulated to end the war in Bosnia. premise: In Bosnia, diplomatic determination combined with military muscle to create an opportunity to secure a peace rather than permit instability to undermine this fragile region and U.S. interests.

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hypothesis: Ruth Madoff is Bernard Madoff's daughter. premise: Prosecutors, who stated their intent on Sunday to seize bonds and cash from Madoff, filed another notice on Tuesday listing assets that they intend to seize, among them "various pieces of jewelry owned or held in the name of Ruth Madoff valued at approximately $2,624,340," and "approximately 35 sets of watches and cufflinks owned by Bernard Madoff," as well as $31.5 million in loans made to Madoff's sons.

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hypothesis: Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886. premise: Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) was a Hungarian/Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer who lived from 1811 to 1886. Liszt is widely considered to be one of the greatest piano virtuosi of all time, and certainly the most famous of the nineteenth century.

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