Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: Worldwide, child labor is most prevalent in the agricultural sector, where children are widely used as day laborers. Working long hours, children working in agriculture are often exposed to harmful pesticides, dangerous machinery, backbreaking loads, and many other hazardous conditions.
Hypothesis: Child labor is widely used in Asia.
Premise: Mr Lopez Obrador, who lost July's presidential election by less than one percentage point, declared himself Mexico's "legitimate" president.
Hypothesis: Mr Lopez Obrador didn't loose the presidential election in July.
Premise: The ceasefire declaration by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its immediate rejection by the government have emphasised the starkness of the situation in which the guerrilla group finds itself, 37 years after first taking up arms for the cause of a Tamil homeland and 26 years after the start of all-out war. Masters of communication, the Tigers were quick to disseminate their message to journalists all over Colombo and overseas, too. But to many it seemed like a cry of desperation from the losing side.
Hypothesis: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is a guerrilla group.
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.
Hypothesis: Rachida Dati has Moroccan origins.
Premise: The airline now flew under the name Sabena - Belgian World Airlines.
Hypothesis: Sabena is an airline.
Premise: The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable.
Hypothesis: People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession.
Premise: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at its lowest level in over six years on Thursday, having lost 1.16%, or 89.68 points, bringing it to a level of 7,465.95. It had, at one point, set an intraday bear market low of 7,447.55. It was the lowest ending for the index since October 9, 2002. The Dow has fallen almost fifteen percent since the start of this year.
Hypothesis: The Dow Jones has gained points.
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
Hypothesis: Crude oil prices rise.
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.
Hypothesis: A Sioux ghost shirt was returned by a Scottish museum.
Premise: Romano Prodi will meet the US President George Bush in his capacity as president of the European commission.
Hypothesis: George Bush is the president of the European Commission.
Premise: Dr Raynard Kington, of the US National Institutes of Health, which funded the research, said: "These findings establish that genetic factors play a strong role in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). "Detailed analysis of the genes and how they affect brain development is likely to yield better strategies for diagnosing and treating children with autism." People with ASD, which include autism and Asperger's syndrome, have problems with social interaction, poor communication skills and tend to engage in repetitive behaviours.
Hypothesis: The ASD includes diseases such as autism and Asperger's syndrome.
Premise: Felipe González Márquez (born March 5, 1942) is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997.
Hypothesis: Felipe González is the President of Spain.
Premise: In 1973, the United States and Communist China agreed to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington.
Hypothesis: Communist China is an organisation based in Beijing and Washington.
Premise: In 1999, Victor Conte was sent two vials of a new drug by a chemist he knew and he started giving it to some of his clients. Including says Conte, one of Americas most iconic sportswomen, Marion Jones, who was about to compete in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Hypothesis: Sportswomen have been suspected of doping.
Premise: It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.
Hypothesis: APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.
Premise: On June 28, 1997, in what would become known as the bite fight, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear, purportedly in retaliation for Holyfield headbutting him.
Hypothesis: Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear on June 28, 1997.
Premise: The documents commented by the magazine date of April 25, 2002, epoch in which the Brazilian president was Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
Hypothesis: The Brazilian President is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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.
Hypothesis: There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW.
Premise: Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.
Hypothesis: A woman passionately wanted to watch the soccer championship.
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.
Hypothesis: Franz Liszt lived from 1811 to 1886.
Premise: Polish-born Pope John Paul II, credited for inspiring Poland's return to democracy after more than 40 years of communism, is expected to dedicate the church during his visit next summer.
Hypothesis: Pope John Paul II was born in Poland.
Premise: Conservationists fear that one of Namibia's most precious resources, its abundant wildlife and especially its threatened black rhinoceros, faces a major menace from poaching.
Hypothesis: In Africa, rhinos are seriously endangered by poaching.
Premise: Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, are gathering in Laos to discuss topics ranging from terrorism and economic integration to non-aggression treaties with several regional neighbors.
Hypothesis: Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations work for ASEAN.
Premise: French is the mother tongue of 80.9 percent of Québeckers, while 7.8 percent cite English as their mother tongue.
Hypothesis: French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.
Premise: Witnesses of genocide attacks on minority Tutsis in Rwanda are being singled out for execution by extremist Hutus in refugee camps in southwest Rwanda, a U.N. spokesman said in Kigali, the capital.
Hypothesis: The Hutu and Tutsi groups fought in Rwanda.
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.
Hypothesis: AIDS spreads in Africa.
Premise: In 1932 he joined the then illegal Communist party and held high government and party posts from 1942, becoming home secretary in 1948, when the Communist party took control in Hungary.
Hypothesis: Communist control in Hungary ended in 1948.
Premise: Experimenting on a raft anchored on the river Elbe, Alfred Nobel tries to make nitroglycerine safer to handle. Finds that the addition of kieselguhr turns nitroglycerine into a dough that can be kneaded, and calls it "dynamite".
Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.
Premise: A.S. Roma suffered their second home defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 loss to 10-man Siena.
Hypothesis: Siena was beaten by A.S. Roma.
Premise: Athletics' governing body, the IAAF, last week cleared Ottey of accusations of steroid use and lifted a two-year ban after their arbitration panel said the IOC-accredited lab in Lausanne improperly tested Ottey's urine sample.
Hypothesis: Sportswomen have been accused of doping.
Premise: Security preparations kept protestors at bay at the recent G8 Summit on Sea Island (USA).
Hypothesis: Demonstrations against G8 Summit took place at Sea Island bay.
Premise: But most Israelis, including those sympathetic to the settlers' efforts to reclaim all the territory that was part of the biblical Land of Israel, reacted with horror to the Hebron killings and the subsequent violence.
Hypothesis: Hebron is located 20 miles south of Jerusalem.
Premise: More than 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank in 1912.
Hypothesis: The Titanic sank in 1912.
Premise: Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied Friday, in the southern city of Basra, to show support for Iraq's new constitution and the Shiite-dominated government.
Hypothesis: Sunni Arabs say they're not ready to re-join the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution.
Premise: Les Paul, who continues to perform weekly at New York Iridium Jazz Club, has finished recording "Les Paul & Friends."
Hypothesis: Iridium Jazz Club is located in New York.
Premise: The area is used by both nomadic herders, who follow their herds and stay in mobile cattle camps, and sedentary farmers. "Attacks in this region could be the work of the (Tuareg rebel) Niger Justice Movement (MNJ) or they could be the work of Malian bandits," a security source, who declined to be identified, told Reuters. The rebels say that wealth generated from Niger's vast uranium deposits has not been distributed equally, and demand more autonomy for the Tuareg inhabitants of the northern Agadez region, where most of Niger's uranium is mined. At least 300 rebels and 80 government soldiers have been killed since the MNJ began its military campaign in early 2007.
Hypothesis: MNJ is a group of Malian bandits.
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.
Hypothesis: The Berlin Wall was torn down in November, 1989.
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.
Hypothesis: India and Pakistan have decided to free hundreds of civilian prisoners in each others jails.
Premise: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has been accused of editing pages in the encyclopedia in return for a donation to the Wikimedia  Foundation. In an article published Tuesday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that former Novell computer scientist Jeff Merkey alleged Wales had made  edits to his article on his behalf, in exchange for a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. The news hit the website Slashdot later Tuesday, where the incident was dubbed "DonorGate".
Hypothesis: Readers of online encyclopedias can edit the contents.
Premise: Moog's synthesiser, which bears his name, revolutionised music from the 1960s onwards, and was used by bands like The Beatles and The Doors.
Hypothesis: Moog's instruments were used by The Beatles and The Doors among others.
Premise: With half of the vote counted, the ANC has 66% of the vote. Its nearest rival, the Democratic Alliance, has 16%, while ANC splinter-group the Congress of the People trails with 8%.  The results will see ANC leader Jacob Zuma elected as President of South Africa when the National Assembly reconvenes in May.  Provincial elections are also being held, and the ANC looks likely to lose power in the province of Western Cape to the Democratic Alliance. This will be the first time an opposition party has won control of a provincial parliament since the end of apartheid.  The election campaign has focused on crime, poverty, and the suitability of Zuma to be President. Zuma was acquitted of rape in 2006, and corruption charges against him were withdrawn shortly before the election after prosecutors found the charges had been politically motivated.
Hypothesis: Jacob Zuma is the leader of the ANC party.
Premise: The report, released by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, compared substance abuse statistics from their latest survey, in 2004, with statistics collected in 2002. It was based on interviews of more than 135,000 people. Nationwide, the rate of underaged drinking remained basically unchanged, but in California, it rose from 15.28 percent of California children between 12 and 17-years-old who said they had consumed alcohol in the previous month in 2002, to 16.81 percent who said they had in 2004. Binge drinking, defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least one day in the past 30 days, was reported by 10.27 percent of kids in 2004, up from the 9.16 percent who said they binged in 2002.
Hypothesis: People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young.
Premise: Witching hour passed and Potter fans poured into bookshops around the world on Saturday, snatching up copies of the latest instalment in the series that promises to be the fastest-selling book in history.
Hypothesis: Potter fans rushed to tills in order to purchase the book.
Premise: Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.
Hypothesis: Toshiba Corp. is a partner of Sony Corp.
Premise: The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and their eventual attack on China in 1937 also lead to vast areas of China not being under Chiang's control.
Hypothesis: The Japanese seized Manchuria in 1931, and began a war against China in 1937.
Premise: The Titanic sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.
Hypothesis: The Titanic sank in 1912.
Premise: I've always said he's the closest I will ever come to meeting Gandhi, he's simply unmoved by any obstacle or any argument, said Bill Clapp, an heir to the Weyerhaeuser fortune and founder of Global Partnerships, a Seattle microfinance group that has partnered with Grameen in Central America.
Hypothesis: Bill Clapp is the founder of the Global Partnerships.
Premise: The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index rose 0.1 percent to 1573.65.
Hypothesis: The Philippine Stock Exchange Composite Index dropped.
Premise: The 31 states initially affected are: (in alphabetical order) : Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. Signs of salmonella include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. Those most vulnerable are the young, the elderly or those with an already compromised health condition. This recall follows the long list of recalled peanut related products, peanut butter and candy bars which caused a salmonella outbreak at the end of January.
Hypothesis: Nebraska is not far from West Virginia and Wyoming.
Premise: Accardo founded the Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Naples and the Cremona String Festival in 1971, and in 1996, he re-founded the Orchestra da Camera Italiana (O.C.I.), whose members are the best pupils of the Walter Stauffer Academy.
Hypothesis: Accardo was a member of the Walter Stauffer Academy.
Premise: Like the corporate logos, the ear is a representation, in mouth-watering chocolate, a delicious reminder of the infamous boxing incident in 1997, when an enraged Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.
Hypothesis: Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1997.
Premise: Medicare will select by lottery 10 percent of those who apply by Aug. 16 to begin receiving benefits starting Sept. 1.
Hypothesis: Medicare will choose 10 percent of applicants to receive benefits by Aug. 16.
Premise: It has been nearly 27 years since Nicole, then a high school student from the Saarland in extreme western Germany, sang a heartfelt plea for world peace on the stage at the Eurovision Song Contest held in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. That simple message was wrapped with success; she became the first German in Contest history to take home the grand prize. The song was a brainchild of her former record producer, Ralph Siegel, and would be their greatest achievement in their nearly three-decade partnership.
Hypothesis: Nicole won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Premise: Binge drinking among young women is on the rise, bringing with it a number of health consequences, including fetal alcohol syndrome.
Hypothesis: Young women are binge drinking more, which can lead to the health risk of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Premise: New research shows there has been a sharp increase in disfiguring skin cancers, particularly in women under the age of 40, providing more evidence that young people are not heeding warnings about the dangers of tanning.
Hypothesis: Tanning may cause skin cancers.
Premise: Over a course of days, the bank went from apparent strength to bankruptcy. Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank. It had financed the Napoleonic wars, the Louisiana purchase, and the Erie Canal. Barings was the Queen's bank.
Hypothesis: Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank.
Premise: The trip was about doing what he hasn't done for what many troops feel has been too long - visiting the thousands of servicemen and women fighting a war in southern Afghanistan.
Hypothesis: Servicemen and women are fighting a war in southern Afghanistan.
Premise: Gen. Maza Marquez said that the fact that a payment is being offered for the capture of Pablo Escobar does not mean that other persons accused of being capos of the mafia are not being sought, and that if anyone being held in connection with the investigation of the killing of Luis Carlos Galan is released, that does not mean that the investigations are not proceeding well.
Hypothesis: Luis was killed by the capos of the mafia.
Premise: Others argue that Mr. Sharon should have negotiated the Gaza pullout - both to obtain at least some written promises of better Palestinian behavior, and to provide Mr. Abbas with a prime prize to show his people that diplomacy, not violence, delivered Gaza.
Hypothesis: Mr. Abbas is a member of the Palestinian family.
Premise: Arroyo was the favorite of investors because of her experience as a trained economist and government manager.
Hypothesis: Arroyo has experience as an economist and as a government manager.
Premise: Polio is no longer a serious health problem for people living in the developed nations, such as the United States, Germany, or France.
Hypothesis: Polio is under control in the world.
Premise: Asia has the highest number of child workers, but Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of working children relative to population.
Hypothesis: Child labor is widely used in Asia.
Premise: In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.
Hypothesis: Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.
Premise: Referring to the April 2 car bomb explosion perpetrated in Santa Tecla, the FMLN-FDR claimed responsibility for the attack in a communique, and said that it was "an action aimed directly at the police" and that "they regret the death of a civilian," but they did not mention compensation for the relatives.
Hypothesis: A civilian was killed by a car bomb.
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.
Hypothesis: Virgin Radio was the employer of Chris Evans.
Premise: The Pentagon is rejecting demands by Kyrgyzstan to pay for the past use of Manas air base, a key military facility for US aircraft flying missions to Afghanistan.
Hypothesis: Manas air base is located in Kyrgyzstan.
Premise: Earlier this year, 78 local, state and federal agencies took part in a chemical attack drill, called Rotunda Thunda, at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Strip.
Hypothesis: A chemical attack took place at the Las Vegas Convention Center and the Strip.
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.
Hypothesis: J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle.
Premise: In 2003, Yunus brought the microcredit revolution to the streets of Bangladesh to support more than 50,000 beggars, whom the Grameen Bank respectfully calls Struggling Members.
Hypothesis: Yunus supported more than 50,000 Struggling Members.
Premise: It's Biodiesel, and Bio-Beetle is the first all-BD rental car company.
Hypothesis: Biodiesel produces the 'Beetle'.
Premise: In the United Kingdom, The Carphone Warehouse, Celebrity Big Brother's sponsor, has pulled out after some of the reality TV show's contestants were accused of racism, with which the company did not want to be associated. The Perfume Shop has announced they will withdraw the perfume Shh... of Jade Goody, one of the contestants accused of bullying with a racist undertone. Motorcycle insurance company Bennetts unilaterally terminated its deal with former Miss England Danielle Lloyd to front an advertisement campaign.
Hypothesis: Jade Goody is a contestant in Celebrity Big Brother.
Premise: He is the professor of theater and drama at Loyola University and the director of Wilson's "Two Trains Running," now onstage at Pegasus Players.
Hypothesis: Two Trains Running was written by Wilson.
Premise: Iraq's representative to the United Nations, Nizar Hamdoun, announced today, Sunday, that thousands of people were killed or injured during the four days of air bombardment against Iraq.
Hypothesis: Nizar HAMDOON, Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, announced that thousands of people could be killed or wounded due to the aerial bombardment of Iraq.
Premise: To break the grinding cycle of debt and poverty, Yunus loaned $27 to Begum and more than 40 of her neighbours in the village of Joba. He allowed them to pay him back over the next year as their businesses started to produce stable profits.
Hypothesis: Some people in the village of Joba received loans from Yunus.
Premise: There is growing evidence that magnesium may be an important factor in the qualitative changes of the bone matrix that determine bone fragility.
Hypothesis: Dietary intake of magnesium prevents osteoporosis.
Premise: In the early hours of April 15, 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg.
Hypothesis: The Titanic sank in 1912.
Premise: Gibbs also said that Obama planned to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but poor weather in Baghdad means that Obama will likely talk to the prime minister and Iraqi President Jalal Talibani by telephone. American troops are slated to leave Iraq by August 2010, with The New York Times reporting that troop levels will continue to be high until Iraq's federal elections in December. Obama told a group of university students in Turkey that despite his original opposition to the war in 2003, he realized that the troop withdrawal must be done carefully.
Hypothesis: Jalal Talibani is friends with Obama.
Premise: Putin and Bush say Iran doesn't have evil nuclear ambitions.
Hypothesis: Bush and Putin urge Iran to give up nuclear ambitions.
Premise: Medieval Christians said the rosary as Catholics still do today: by praying five decades of Ave Marias (Hail Marys), each introduced by a Pater Noster (Our Father), while meditating on three series of five mysteries each.
Hypothesis: Christians pray the rosary.
Premise: With a Queensland state election coming up in Australia, many minor parties and independents will be looking to hold balance of power and making the major parties listen to what they have to say. The Patrica Petersen are one of the independents. Wikinews reporter Patrick Gillett held an exclusive email interview with Ms Peterson, candidate for the electoral district of Bundamba.
Hypothesis: Patrica Petersen was brought up in Bundamba.
Premise: Only 18 states, including Massachusetts, have specific provisions that allow women who quit their jobs due to domestic violence to qualify for UI.
Hypothesis: 18 states have provisions that permit women who quit their jobs because of domestic violence to collect unemployment insurance.
Premise: Suncreams designed for children could offer less protection than they claim on the bottle.
Hypothesis: Suncreams designed for children protect at the level they advertise.
Premise: Meanwhile, at a Pushkin-Goethe Festival held recently in Moscow to observe the poets' birthdays (this year is Goethe's 250th), Dmitri Prigov, a post-modernist poet and conceptual artist, took the first line from "Onegin" ("My uncle - high ideals inspire him") and set it to Buddhist and Muslim mantras and Russian Orthodox and Gregorian chants.
Hypothesis: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.
Premise: A British Dynamite Company (Ardeer, Scotland, UK) is founded. In 1877 the company name was changed to Nobel's Explosives Company.
Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.
Premise: In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.
Hypothesis: Slovenia has 2 million inhabitants.
Premise: The first Windows DNA lab outside Microsoft was established in suburban Philadelphia in June 1998.
Hypothesis: Microsoft was established in June 1998.
Premise: Nancy Grace and the others, they just bashed her to the end, said Duckett's grandfather, Bill Eubanks, during an interview with The Orlando Sentinel. "She wasn't one anyone ever would have thought of to do something like this. She and that baby just loved each other, couldn't get away from each other. She wouldn't hurt a bug." Grace's spokeswoman called the suicide "a sad development," and Grace herself issued a statement saying, "I do not feel that our show is to blame for what happened to Melinda Duckett."
Hypothesis: Bill Eubanks was Melinda Duckett's grandad.
Premise: Durham is the 'City of Medicine' and home of Duke University and North Carolina Central.
Hypothesis: Duke University is in Durham.
Premise: Mike Wilson, marketing manager at Fanuc Robotics in Coventry, says of the improvements in robot performance: 'Our new ARC Mate welding robot, for example, is 30 per cent cheaper in real terms than a similar model three years ago.
Hypothesis: Welding is a common use for robots in the auto industry.
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.
Hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Premise: Nevertheless, the international reputation of some Polish artists, notably the film maker Krzysztof Kieslowski, has never been higher. To use a crass commercial yardstick, the DVD boxed set of his Decalogue series (ten one-hour dramas based loosely on the Ten Commandments, made for Polish TV in 1988) is currently number 3,700 in Amazon.com's sales rankings (about even with The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection).
Hypothesis: Kieslowski is a film and TV director.
Premise: Tropical Storm Arthur is projected to weaken tonight, but it will likely regain strength after entering the Bay of Campeche on Sunday.The 2008 Atlantic  hurricane season got off to an early start today when a tropical storm formed off the coast of Belize, one day before the season officially begins. Tropical Storm Arthur formed Saturday afternoon and quickly made landfall at the Yucatan Peninsula, near the border between Belize and Mexico. Both  countries issued a tropical storm warning for the peninsula's eastern coastline. In the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, ports were closed to small boats,  water sports were banned, and those living in coastal areas were encouraged to take precautions.
Hypothesis: Tropical Storm Arthur is approaching the US coast.
Premise: Ebola haemorrhagic fever is a fatal disease caused by a new virus which has no known cure. When a new epidemic was detected in Zaire in the spring of 1995, it was widely perceived as a threat to the West. Public attention was intense.
Hypothesis: Ebola Epidemic breaks out in Zaire.
Premise: The Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.
Hypothesis: The SEC's new rule will give boards independence.
Premise: The Osaka World Trade Center is the tallest building in Western Japan.
Hypothesis: The Osaka World Trade Center is the tallest building in Japan.
Premise: In "Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, JR.", by Gerald Posner (Harvest/Harcourt Brace, $15), the writer who attacked Kennedy conspiracy theories in "Case Closed" takes on Ray's claim of innocence in the 1968 murder of King.
Hypothesis: Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.
Premise: The government of South Ossetia has announced that it will evacuate children in danger zones to Russia. This came after a speech made by Eduard Kokoity, President of South Ossetia, which accused the Georgian government of "attempting to spark a full-scale war." Kokoity said that the conflict's victim count has reached 1400. As of 10:51pm August 8th, 12 Russian peacemakers are reported dead and 150 wounded. A video tape showing Georgian Su-25 aircraft being downed was aired on Vesti Russian TV channel late night of August 8th. The pilot of the jet reportedly ejected, but was captured and killed on the ground by Ossetian military.
Hypothesis: South Ossetia chose Eduard Kokoity as President.
Premise: Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.
Hypothesis: US officials are concerned by the political vacuum and fear that it is feeding sectarian tensions, correspondents say.
Premise: Shares of Salesforce closed Wednesday at $17.20, more than 50% above their offering price.
Hypothesis: Salesforce shares were more than 50% above their offering price of $17.20.
Premise: The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry.
Hypothesis: I am delighted and wish The Prince of Wales and Parker Bowles a happy life.
Premise: We are ... deploying more people into Côte d'Ivoire -- police, military people and people to work directly with the office of the prime minister Mbeki told a news conference in Pretoria.
Hypothesis: Mbeki holds the office of Prime Minister.
Premise: Quite simply, Tsutomu Yamaguchi is one of the luckiest men in the world. This slight 93-year-old with white hair, who is now largely confined to a wheelchair, was formally recognised last week as one of the tiny handful of people to have survived not one but both of the American atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 - bringing to an end to World War II. Known in Japan as one of the hibakusha - literally 'the explosionaffected people' - Mr Yamaguchi had long been recognised as a survivor of the nuclear explosion in his home town of Nagasaki.
Hypothesis: Yamaguchi survived two atomic bombings.
Premise: Spain will recruit 500 extra police to fight Basque separatists ETA and Islamist militants in the next four years, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said on Tuesday. Including the new recruits, the number of anti-terrorism officers will have increased by 1,800 since the Socialist government took office in 2004, days after Islamist militants killed 191 people by bombing Madrid trains, Rubalcaba told a parliamentary committee. ETA has killed more than 800 people in four decades in its fight for an independent Basque Country composed of part of northern Spain and southern France. Its last fatal attack came on May 14, authorities believe, when a car bomb wrecked a police barracks in the Spanish Basque Country, killing one officer. The government will also provide an additional 800 officers to combat organised crime and another 1,248 staff to tackle domestic violence, Rubalcaba said.
Hypothesis: ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.
Premise: Contrast the Leitrim story with that of Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian Nobel laureate who turned 100 last Wednesday. She still attends for work every day at the European Brain Research Institute in Rome, which she founded. She was appointed a senator for life in 2001, and in 2006, aged 97, she attended the opening assembly of the newly elected senate. She takes part in discussions in the Upper House, and in 2004 defended the teaching of evolution in Italian schools. There is no record of her having claimed a day off because of festival commitments. Apparently she even manages to work right through the Rose of Tralee without lifting her head from her Petri dish.
Hypothesis: Rita Levi-Montalcini is a Nobel prize winner.
Premise: In June 2004, top Russian oil producer Lukoil signed a $1 billion 35-year production-sharing agreement to develop Uzbek natural gas deposits.
Hypothesis: Lukoil earned $1 billion in 2004.
Premise: On opening day Salesforce.com's stock was up $6.20 to $17.20, a 56.4% increase over the initial offering price of $11.
Hypothesis: Opening day of the stock of Salesforce.com rose 56.4% over the initial offering price.
Premise: He met U.S. President, George W. Bush, in Washington and British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in London.
Hypothesis: Washington is part of London.
Premise: South Korea's deputy foreign minister says his country won't change its plan to send three-thousand soldiers to Iraq, despite the kidnapping of a South Korean man there.
Hypothesis: South Korea continues to send troops.
Premise: The mystery of Alexander the Great's tomb still has not unraveled, and locating the burial of Alexander seems to have become an impossible mission for archaeologists.
Hypothesis: Alexander the Great's Tomb remains undiscovered.
Premise: In the year 538, Cyrus set in place a policy which demanded the return of the various gods to their proper places.
Hypothesis: Cyrus issued a declaration in 538 that would allow the Jews to go back to their homeland.
Premise: Prolonged exposure to UV-B light can cause sunburn, and there are worries that damage to the ozone layer may lead to an increase in the incidence of skin cancer.
Hypothesis: UV-B light is damaging the ozone layer.
Premise: After leaving Time-Life, Shuker joined the Public Broadcast Laboratory, forerunner of PBS, and participated in two pioneering films -- 'The Chair,' about an attorney trying to save a condemned man, and 'Free At Last,' a 90-minute documentary about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that by chance was being made when King was murdered in 1968.
Hypothesis: Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.
Premise: According to official results, Abedelaziz Bouteflika, the 72-year-old president of Algeria, has been reelected to a third term as the country's leader in a landslide.  Yazid Zerhouni, the Algerian Interior Minister, stated that Bouteflika obtained 90.24% of the vote in the election, which was held on Thursday. Voter turnout was 74%, with some of the opposition parties boycotting the election amidst allegations of election fraud.  Zerhouni said at a news conference that the voter turnout was "exceptional", but insisted that the figures had not been manipulated, saying that anyone with evidence of fraud should take it to election officials.  Bouteflika's critics assert that the victory was a foregone conclusion — his opponents were not well known, and his campaign was well-funded. They continued to express outrage over a constitutional amendment adopted last November, which allowed Bouteflika to run for a third five-year term.
Hypothesis: Abedelaziz Bouteflika won the Algerian presidential election.
Premise: Scientists had observed that mice with a defective Klotho gene aged prematurely and wondered if an enhanced gene would have an opposite effect.
Hypothesis: Scientists have discovered a gene that produces a hormone that raises the life expectancy in mice by 30 percent.
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.
Hypothesis: Greenhouse effect changes global climate.
Premise: The liner notes to the CD surmise that Farrakhan is the author of three selections, "Is She Is, or Is She Ain't", "Don't Touch Me Nylon," and "Female Boxer" and that is quite possible. The most interesting is the first of these three, a topical number on Christie Jorgensen, the subject of a series of sex change operations. While such transexual operations have since become more common, this was the first to receive high publicity.
Hypothesis: Sex-change operations become more common.
Premise: According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October, cited for safety violations, and fined about $10,000.
Hypothesis: According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the plant was inspected in October and fined for safety violations.
Premise: Iscor, the South African iron and steel manufacturer, has announced plans to develop a steel mini-mill at Saldanha Bay on the country's west coast in partnership with the state-run industrial development Corporation.
Hypothesis: The South African steel manufacturer Iscor plans to develop a mini-mill.
Premise: To write "The Persians," which opens Thursday at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, Ellen McLaughlin spent six days. Given the direction of U.S. foreign policy, McLaughlin says, the lessons of "The Persians" are particularly crucial today, 2,500 years after it was written.
Hypothesis: The Persians was written by Aeschylus.
Premise: Christopher Hitchens called him a "Bin Ladenist" and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he "blames the victims of terrorism" when he puts out a novel like Snowball's Chance, a biting send-up of George Orwell's Animal Farm which he was inspired to write after the terrorist attacks on September 11. "The clear references to 9/11 in the apocalyptic ending can only bring Orwell's name into disrepute in the U.S.," wrote William Hamilton, the British literary executor of the Orwell estate. That process had already begun: it was revealed Orwell gave the British Foreign Office a list of people he suspected of being "crypto-Communists and fellow travelers," labeling some of them as Jews and homosexuals. "I really wanted to explode that book," Reed told The New York Times. "I wanted to completely undermine it."
Hypothesis: Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".
Premise: Nevertheless, 58 percent of Americans expressed their satisfaction with the President's job performance. 44 percent supported Nixon at the very beginning of the investigation into Watergate.
Hypothesis: Although 58% of Americans are unsatisfied with Clinton's job performance, 44% found Nixon's work adequate at the start of the Watergate scandal.
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.
Hypothesis: In the Netherlands five grams of cannabis can be legally held in possession.
Premise: Switzerland has ratified bilateral agreements with the members of the European Union in March 2004, but the new members (Cyprus , Czech Republic , Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) were not included in the deal.
Hypothesis: Lithuania intends to introduce the use of the Euro as an official currency on January 1, 2007.
Premise: There are more than 4,000 street children in the capital city of Ulan Bator.
Hypothesis: The population of Ulan Bator is 4,000.
Premise: Across Africa, young boys and girls wake up each morning just like children here in the Washington D.C. area. The children are no different; they do chores, eat, play sports, and go to school. That is, if they can survive the mosquito bites that transmit the deadly malaria parasites. Those parasites kill an estimated 3,000 children each day in Africa. While malaria has been all but forgotten in the United States, it remains the leading cause of death for children under 5 in Africa, killing approximately 1 million people a year.
Hypothesis: Malaria is widespread in Africa.
Premise: CBS newsman Harry Reasoner is returning to his Iowa hometown to get married Saturday.
Hypothesis: CBS newsman Harry Reasoner was born in Iowa.
Premise: Australian cheerleaders have been told today to cover up their midriffs under calls by Gymnastics Australia, as they believe it encourages girls to be self-conscious. Nerine Cooper, head of Gymnastics Australia, told the Sunday Telegraph, "We don't want girls to feel under pressure to lose weight because of uniforms." Lisa Ince, head of Sydney Professional Dancers, disagreed. "It's ridiculous really, if the thinking is that a midriff is offensive, then every dance school and athletics club would face the same restrictions," she said. The ban will affect about 150 teams registered with Gymnastics Australia.
Hypothesis: Lisa Ince is the chief of Sydney Professional Dancers.
Premise: For such patients, regular aspirin use significantly decreased the risk for fatal and nonfatal strokes or heart attacks.
Hypothesis: People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
Premise: The situation is being monitored by the World Health Organization but says "it is too early to know whether the virus is changing in ways that would signal the start of a human flu pandemic," says Maria Cheng a spokeswoman for the WHO. "It's one isolate from a single virus from Turkey. The sample suggests the virus might be more inclined to bind to human cells rather than animal cells, but there's no evidence that it's becoming more infectious. If we started to see a lot more samples from Turkey with this mutation and saw the virus changing, we'd be more concerned."
Hypothesis: The World Health Organization is based in Turkey.
Premise: Bountiful arrived after war's end, sailing into San Francisco Bay 21 August 1945. Bountiful was then assigned as hospital ship at Yokosuka, Japan, departing San Francisco 1 November 1945.
Hypothesis: Bountiful reached San Francisco in August 1945.
Premise: Rodriguez told detectives he never touched the burning backpack, which was loaded with plastic pipes packed with gunpowder and BBs.
Hypothesis: The burning backpack contained plastic pipes packed with gunpowder and BBs.
Premise: Mr. Olsen paid $20 million for the space trip, but says that in the future space travel will likely become as routine as air travel is today.
Hypothesis: Air travel costs $20 million.
Premise: A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.
Hypothesis: A female rabbit is called a buck.
Premise: Only his comrades see him; we exchange messages with each other to share plans. We also go to the battlefield together. We actually meet very rarely, just for important consultations. It's hard for anyone to meet Bin Laden himself now, but we know he's still alive, said Dadullah. Dadullah also claims that there are "hundreds" of suicide bombers that are prepared and ready to hit the NATO peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan and that Americans will "reap the crop for a long time" also saying that the Taliban and al-Qaeda will get "revenge" on the United States either inside or outside Afghanistan.
Hypothesis: Dadullah is a Taliban.
Premise: Billy Werber, third baseman in Major League Baseball, has died at the age of 100. Werber died of natural causes on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at an assisted living center in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was moved there after his health deteriorated a month ago. His son said that when admitted, Werber refused to eat solid foods and would only drink liquids. "He just refused to eat and that was his plan," Bill Werber Jr. told the Associated Press. He added that his father was "sharp up until four weeks ago".
Hypothesis: Werber died in North Carolina at the age of 100.
Premise: Canadian traffickers also are reported to drop their marijuana loads across the border in remote areas (often without the knowledge of rural landowners), cross into the United States without drugs, later retrieve the marijuana, and continue on to U.S.  distribution sites.
Hypothesis: Most of the marijuana entering the United States comes from Canada.
Premise: Geoscience Australia said the 5.3 quake did not generate a tsunami. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had a magnitude of 9.0, triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26, 2004 that killed over 270,000 people, making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history.
Hypothesis: A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.
Premise: In 1969, he drew up the report proposing the expulsion from the party of the Manifesto group. In 1984, after Berlinguer's death, Natta was elected as party secretary.
Hypothesis: Natta supported the Manifesto group.
Premise: Levy Mwanawasa, the President of Zambia died yesterday at age 59. He died in a Paris hospital in France. His death was intially announced by an anonymous family member. It was later confirmed on television by vice president Rupiah Banda. Mwanawase suffered a stroke while in Egypt in June of this year for an African Union summit, whereafter he was flown to France. His condition suddenly deteriorated on Monday.
Hypothesis: The Zambian government has ordered to plant potatoes.
Premise: Mr Fitzgerald revealed he was one of several top officials who told Mr Libby in June 2003 that Valerie Plame, wife of the former ambassador Joseph Wilson, worked for the CIA.
Hypothesis: Joseph Wilson worked for CIA.
Premise: In addition to family, the memorial service was attended by actors and actresses who have worked with Ledger, including Cate Blanchett who starred with Ledger in the Bob Dylan bio-flick, I'm Not There. Blanchett spoke of the times she shared with Ledger in New York and Los Angeles. The Other speakers included his parents, sister and Neil Armfield, a director of Ledger's last Australian film, Candy. An emotional Williams, was wearing dark glasses and a white dress with black trim, she was not accompanied by her daughter Matilda. Williams walked in clutching the arm of Ledger's older sister, Kate.
Hypothesis: Williams has a daughter called Matilda.