Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: When the last member of the Hasmonean Dynasty died in 37 B.C., Rome made Herod king of Judah.  With Roman backing, Herod (37-34 B.C.) ruled on both sides of the Jordan River.  After his death the Jewish kingdom was divided among his heirs and gradually absorbed into the Roman Empire.
Hypothesis: The Hasmonean Dynasty rules Jordan.
Premise: Mr David Herman, head of GM's local operations accused Mr Gerhardt Schroeder, prime Minister of Lower Saxony and a member of the VW supervisory board, of trying to use his political weight to influence the investigations by state prosecutors in Hesse into claims of industrial espionage against GM.
Hypothesis: Gerhardt Schroeder was accused of helping VW.
Premise: The GDP report showed growth in business outlays advanced at a solid 8.9% pace.
Hypothesis: The GDP was a disappointing report.
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.
Hypothesis: Wehkamp was based in the UK.
Premise: Edward VIII shocked the world in 1936 when he gave up his throne to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson.
Hypothesis: King Edward VIII abdictated in 1936.
Premise: He tried to persuade a local banker to loan more money to the villagers, but the banker refused, insisting they didn't qualify for credit. So, Yunus started his own bank to help the poorest of the poor lift themselves up.
Hypothesis: Yunus started his own bank to loan money to the villagers.
Premise: Animals are permitted to enter the UK 6 months later without quarantine as long as they have been treated for ticks, fleas and tapeworms between 24 and 48 hours before boarding the transport that will return the pets to the UK.
Hypothesis: Quarantine is compulsory for animals to enter the UK.
Premise: Though Wilkins and his family settled quickly in Italy, it wasn't a successful era for Milan, and Wilkins was allowed to leave in 1987 to join French outfit Paris Saint-Germain.
Hypothesis: Wilkins departed Milan in 1987.
Premise: Since '82 Federal Chancellor (elected by "constructive vote of no confidence" against former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Social Democratic Party (SPD); reelected 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1994). This makes Helmut Kohl the longest-serving chancellor of the Federal Republic, passing by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor, this October.
Hypothesis: The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: Blue Mountain Lumber is a subsidiary of Malaysian forestry transnational corporation, Ernslaw One.
Hypothesis: Blue Mountain Lumber owns Ernslaw One.
Premise: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and BJP prime ministerial candidate LK Advani are among candidates whose seats are holding voting in the third phase. Results are due on 16 May and no party is expected to win a clear majority.  Voters in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are casting ballots on Thursday. Voting is also being held in the federally-administered territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu.
Hypothesis: Sonia Gandhi is winning in the Uttar Pradesh state.
Premise: New Zealand's Qualifications Authority said Friday that it still strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.
Hypothesis: Full English is recommended by New Zealand's Qualifications Authority.
Premise: SCORES of fast food outlets have launched a legal challenge over payment and employment conditions for its workers, it emerged yesterday. The case is being taken by the newly formed Quick Service Food Alliance (QSFA), which also warned that current legislation would lead to job losses and businesses closures due to labour costs. The QSFA represents 170 businesses in the fast food sector including Subway, Supermacs and McDonald's. It said it was to take a High Court challenge to the rights of the Catering Joint Labour Committee (JLC) to set minimum wages and employment conditions for workers in the catering industry.
Hypothesis: The Quick Service Food Alliance also includes McDonald's.
Premise: As hurricane Katrina moves beyond the Floridian peninsula, death tolls have begun to surface. On Friday, the official count was seven dead, at least five missing. 4 people in Broward, 3 in Miami. The forecast for Hurricane  Katrina predicts that it will continue on its present northwesterly course and approach the panhandle of Florida and the Mississippi delta region in the next few days.
Hypothesis: Hurricane Katrina hit Florida.
Premise: The Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics will take place from February 8th to February 24th 2002. The Paralympics will take place in Salt Lake City from March 7th to March 16th 2002.
Hypothesis: 2002 Olympic Winter games take place in Salt Lake.
Premise: LISBON, Jan. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Anibal Cavaco Silva, a former prime minister, won Portugal's presidential election on Sunday.
Hypothesis: New Portuguese prime minister is elected.
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.
Hypothesis: Renzo Piano is an architect.
Premise: Whilst the Government has an absolute majority in the Australian Senate, it is not guaranteed that the necessary legislation will pass this house. Garnering the support of key Senator Joyce is critical to ensure that the bills will pass (as he will have the deciding vote) and he has already stated that, due to a damning report released earlier in the House of Representatives showing that fourteen percent of lines were faulty amongst other criticsm, that it has turned the "green [light] to amber" [1].
Hypothesis: Mr Joyce is an Australian Senator.
Premise: The six-member delegation included lawyers from the Justice, State, and Homeland Security Departments, according to U.S. military sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because only Justice was allowed to officially disclose the mission. They were to spend a minimum of one hour with each of the Uighur (WEE-gur) captives, who are part of China's Muslim minority and who risk religious persecution if returned to their homeland. Each was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001 and handed over to U.S. forces, who interrogated them to learn about al-Qaeda's paramilitary training camp structure.
Hypothesis: Six Uighurs were captured to gain information about al-Qaeda.
Premise: Though owning no trees and no waters, Takeshima Island has become the subject of a bitter political dispute between Japan and South Korea.
Hypothesis: There is a territorial waters dispute.
Premise: After graduating in 1977, Gallager chose to accept a full scholarship to play football for Temple University.
Hypothesis: Gallager attended Temple University.
Premise: For women who are HIV negative or who do not know their HIV status, breastfeeding should be protected, promoted and supported for six months.
Hypothesis: For HIV-positive mothers, the decision about whether or not to breastfeed a child can be difficult.
Premise: The recovery of the capsule, which carried astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on a brief suborbital flight on July 21, 1961, took place on the 30th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing.
Hypothesis: The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.
Premise: The conference found that many Australians experience discrimination through the Governmental, penal, legal and health care systems because of their mental health, race, skin colour, sexuality, sexual formation or refugee status.
Hypothesis: Mental health problems increase in the young.
Premise: Tourists pay millions of dollars a year to come and see Africa 's wildlife and smugglers pay millions more in strictly illegal purchases of ivory and rhino horn from poachers.
Hypothesis: African countries encourage keeping animals alive to attract tourists.
Premise: Rehnquist served longer as chief justice than anyone in a century, and his 33-year career as a justice was among the half-dozen longest in the court's history.
Hypothesis: Rehnquist served the second-longest tenure, as chief justice, in US history.
Premise: The Red Planet is thought to have no magnetic field. It has the greenhouse effect which raises the temperature about 5 degrees. It has a very thin atmosphere consisting of 95.3% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, 0.15% oxygen, and 0.03% water.
Hypothesis: Mars is called the red planet.
Premise: When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.
Hypothesis: Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn.
Premise: Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, along with top members of the Automobile Club of Southern California, along with will announce the kickoff of a $9 billion plan to fund Los Angeles County's Top Ten Traffic Busters.
Hypothesis: James Hahn is a member of the Automobile Club of Southern California.
Premise: Getty also starred in several movies after the show including Mask where she played the mother of singer and song writer Cher and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot where she also played the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone. She also starred in the television show spin off of The Golden Girls titled The Golden Palace and made a two episode appearance on another spin off called Empty Nest. Getty was born in New York City on July 25, 1923, passing away just three days before her 85th birthday.
Hypothesis: Stallone played Getty's father.
Premise: Strong competition in industries such as shipping has resulted in waves of investment in labour saving technology such as steel and aluminium cutting tools, processing machine and welding robots.
Hypothesis: The automotive industry has seen advances in robotic metal cutting.
Premise: Cuban Leader Fidel Castro sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan assuring him that Cuba will follow anti-terrorism treaties in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks against New York and Washington.
Hypothesis: Castro visits the UN.
Premise: We've never had a core (business) thing, founder Richard Branson told Reuters at the launch this month of Virgin Vodka, which, with Virgin cola and Virgin computers, are his latest bright ideas.
Hypothesis: Richard Branson's cola is called Virgin Cola.
Premise: Actor Christopher Reeve, best known for his role as Superman, is paralyzed and cannot breathe without the help of a respirator after breaking his neck in a riding accident in Culpeper, Va., on Saturday.
Hypothesis: Christopher Reeve had an accident.
Premise: One year on since he was elected to office as President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo is making headlines in the country he leads, but for all the wrong reasons. Newspapers and TV programmes have been dominated by stories of women coming forward to claim they had a child with the former Catholic bishop. This "political soap opera", complained one of these reports, is "paralysing the government".  Three women have made allegations so far and there were reports in the Paraguay media that there may be more claims to come.
Hypothesis: Fernando Lugo was a Catholic bishop.
Premise: The London Eye in London, England sits 443ft over the River Thames. It has attracted more than 27 million visitors since its formal opening on December 31, 1999. Each compartment is set to be air-conditioned and hold up to 30 people. Three possible locations for the wheel to sit have been selected. This is not the first attempt by the Iraqi Tourism Board to bring tourists into the capital. The board are seeking investors for a resort island. The island would include a six star hotel and a 18 hole golf course.
Hypothesis: The River Thames flows through London.
Premise: Women are poorly trained for politics.
Hypothesis: Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Premise: About two weeks before the trial started, I was in Shapiro's office in Century City.
Hypothesis: Shapiro works in Century City.
Premise: The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Monday that repairing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will cost up to €16.6 million or $21 million. The LHC, which is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, is located near the border of France and Switzerland and crosses the border four times. It has a diameter of 27 km (17 miles). It is designed to simulate the conditions shortly after the Big Bang, but it broke down on September 19 due to an electrical failure.
Hypothesis: CERN head office is in Paris.
Premise: The Walt Disney Co. donated one of the world's most significant private collections of African artwork, yesterday, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Hypothesis: Disney gave the Smithsonian a trove of sought-after African art.
Premise: PM has now firm projects which include a stake in a joint venture called Constellation in Samara involving the city's main tobacco factory.
Hypothesis: PM acquired three Russian factories.
Premise: Aides to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose Labor Party won power 13 months ago and who is the current EU president, said the leaders acknowledged jointly - and without trying to blame each other - that the EU's Belgian-based bureaucracy is regarded as both remote and overbearing.
Hypothesis: Tony Blair belongs to the Labor Party.
Premise: A Spanish man who murdered a Welsh couple with a hammer on the island of Fuerteventura has been jailed for 39 years by a court in the Canary Islands. Brian and Tina Johnson were bludgeoned to death by tenant Juan Carmelo Santana, 42, when they tried to collect overdue rent from him in July 2006. Santana was sentenced to 17 years for Mrs Johnson's murder and 22 for the more "brutal" killing of her husband. He was ordered to pay their son Sam £270,000 in a private prosecution.
Hypothesis: Juan Carmelo Santana was killed by Brian and Tina Johnson.
Premise: First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band GCB, ADC of the United Kingdom, the most senior serving officer in the Royal Navy, said that "...the submarines came into contact at very low speed. Both submarines remained safe. No injuries occurred. We can confirm the capability remains unaffected and there was no compromise to nuclear safety." "Both navies want quiet areas, deep areas, roughly the same distance from their home ports. So you find these station grounds have got quite a few submarines, not only French and Royal Navy but also from Russia and the United States. Navies often used the same nesting grounds," said John H. Large, an independent nuclear engineer and analyst primarily known for his work in assessing and reporting upon nuclear safety and nuclear related accidents and incidents.
Hypothesis: Two submarines have collided.
Premise: By law, Mexico can only export half the oil it produces to the United States.
Hypothesis: Mexico produces more oil than any other country.
Premise: The wait time for a green card has risen from 21 months to 33 months in those same regions.
Hypothesis: It takes longer to get green card.
Premise: Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, will meet his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, in London today.
Hypothesis: Jack Straw is a partner of Celso Amorim.
Premise: The West Pharmaceutical Services plant, which had been cited for numerous safety violations last fall, made syringe plungers and IV supplies.
Hypothesis: The West Pharmaceutical Services plant had been cited for numerous safety violations last autumn.
Premise: If confirmed as rabies, the case could be the first occurence of the infection acquired in the UK since 1902.
Hypothesis: A case of rabies was confirmed.
Premise: Busby countered, telling The Iconoclast, the point is that material from Chernobyl which is 1,800 miles to the east of Great Britain traveled to Great Britain and contaminated Wales, Scotland, and various parts of the United Kingdom. And they might as well have said that it was equally unfeasible for it to travel that distance in the opposite direction to the general flow of the wind, but we have examined computer Models of wind directions over the period of the Gulf War and its quite clear the material from Iraq could have come through the United Kingdom because of the particular types of depressions and anticyclone systems that were there.
Hypothesis: The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.
Premise: Carmen was only slightly put out to find that women are as poorly represented among Australian political scientists as they are in parliament (Leonie was asking, 'where are all the women?').
Hypothesis: Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Premise: Canadian wireless technology licensing company Wi-LAN has begun legal action against Cisco, alleging the networking giant's Linksys and Aironet products are making use of its intellectual property without permission.
Hypothesis: Linksys and Aironet begin legal action against a Canadian company.
Premise: Actual statistics about the deterrent value of capital punishment are not available because it is impossible to know who may have been deterred from committing a crime.
Hypothesis: Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Premise: If we could put a man on the moon within decades back in the 1960s, I think we can eliminate TB if we develop the will to do so said O'Brien, who called for a significant investment for the research, particularly the large field trials necessary to demonstrate efficacy.
Hypothesis: The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.
Premise: Councilman Pierce had built the home for his daughter on E. 28th Street off Rossville Blvd, as he lives nearby.
Hypothesis: Pierce lives on E. 28th Street.
Premise: Argentina and Britain announced an agreement Thursday to restore full diplomatic ties nearly eight years after they fought a 74-day war over the Falkland islands.
Hypothesis: Full diplomatic relations were re-established in 1990.
Premise: Hooper, a salesman of Portland, is accused of posing as a potential home buyer on July 26, then forcing himself inside the residence and raping a 19-year-old woman.
Hypothesis: Hooper bought a house in Portland.
Premise: In the 1970s, she was one of the most popular female vocalists in France, and became well-known internationally. Anne Marie David, from Arles in the south of France, parlayed her initial success from playing Mary Magdalene in the French production of Jesus Christ Superstar into taking home the "grand prix" at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1973. Her winning song, "Tu te reconnaîtras" (You will recognize yourself), became a Europe-wide hit that spring.
Hypothesis: Anne Marie David won the Eurovision Song Contest.
Premise: In France, art dealers are obliged by law to register all purchases except those bought at a public auction.
Hypothesis: In France, works of art bought at public auction are exempt from registration.
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.
Hypothesis: 24 people died in an airplane crash.
Premise: A young gunman known as Scarface has been jailed for life for the murder of a promising teenage footballer. Richard Harrison-Allen, 20, shot Etem Celebi dead in November 2007 as he tried to flee the scene in the Smalley Close estate, Stoke Newington, north London. Gang member Harrison-Allen, from Hackney, east London, who was convicted of the teenager's murder earlier this month, was sentenced to a minimum of 26 years at St Albans Crown Court. He sat motionless as sentence was passed.
Hypothesis: Scarface is the nickname of Richard Harrison-Allen.
Premise: Some large Russian oil companies, including Lukoil, Zarubezhneft, the state-owned oil company, and Alpha Eco, the trader, were implicated by the report.
Hypothesis: Zarubezhneft trades in oil.
Premise: Some of the stolen trade secrets were seized from the defendants at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) while they were attempting to fly to China.
Hypothesis: Trade secrets were stolen.
Premise: Westbridge manufactures certified organic fertilizers including liquid growth enhancers and biostimulants.
Hypothesis: Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.
Premise: The optimal style of dam building is specific to the particular macroproject, the nature of the geophysical worksite (Anon., 2005) as well as social uncertainty, the undertaking management organizations experience, the operational complexities of many kinds of construction machinery and worker nationalities, the macroprojects situational geography and the logistics of its required compositional materials.
Hypothesis: Dam building prevents life-threatening situations.
Premise: Earlier this year, Kai-Uwe Ricke, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, floated the possibility that T-Mobile USA might be sold.
Hypothesis: Deutsche Telekom sold T-Mobile USA.
Premise: For a western European country, the birth rate in Finland is high.
Hypothesis: Finland is the European country with the highest birth rate.
Premise: Typhoon Chanchu, packing winds up to 170 kph (106 mph) and the strongest typhoon on record to enter the South China Sea in May, made landfall between the cities of Shantou and Xiamen and was advancing northeast, the Hong Kong Observatory said.
Hypothesis: A typhoon batters the Philippines.
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.
Hypothesis: A FEMA team is based in California.
Premise: The resignation came amid recent allegations by Massachusetts' attorney general that the Boston archdiocese engaged in "an elaborate scheme" to keep quiet the issue of child sexual abuse by priests.
Hypothesis: The state attorney general claimed that the archdiocese engaged in a coverup.
Premise: At approximately 3:20 p.m., an unnamed caller reported sight of the suspects on a near street, East 27th Street, causing police to create a blockade, surrounding the suspect. This is where the other two officers were shot, this time in an exchange of gunfire while attempting to take the alleged shooter of the two officers into custody. The suspect was killed by police gunfire. The suspects name was Lovelle Mixon, aged 26, who had a warrant issued for his arrest after his bail was revoked for violation of parole. All four of the officers were taken to Highland Hospital in critical condition where they all later died of their injuries. There names were: Sargent Erv Romans, aged 43, Sargent Dan Sakai, 35, John Hege aged 41 and Mark Dunakin, 40.
Hypothesis: Sargent Dan Sakai was a colleague of John Hege.
Premise: The Royal Navy servicemen being held captive by Iran are expected to be freed today.
Hypothesis: British servicemen detained
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 doe.
Premise: A song proclaiming that United States president-elect Barack Obama is Irish has got more than 600,000 views on video sharing site YouTube, with many of those views coming after he was elected on November 4. "O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara, There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama," states the song. "You don't believe me, I hear you say. But Barack's as Irish, as was JFK. His granddaddy's daddy came from Moneygall, a small Irish village, well known to you all".
Hypothesis: According to a song, Barack Obama is Irish.
Premise: On Wednesday night people in the Bahçelievler district of Yenibosna in Istanbul, Turkey, claimed that they had seen a UFO flying in the sky, the Turkish newspaper Sabah reports. They said that the UFO was glowing with white lights and that it revolved around itself. Istanbul has had previous UFO incidents in the past, and in 2002, the Istanbul UFO Museum was opened to the public.
Hypothesis: A UFO might have been seen in Turkey.
Premise: A massive polio immunization drive is under way in more than 20 nations of West and Central Africa, but in Cote d'Ivoire violence has forced a postponement of the vaccination campaign, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced November 18.
Hypothesis: Polio is under control in the world.
Premise: BEIJING — In the decade since the Chinese government began repressing Falun Gong, a crusade that human rights groups say has led to the imprisonment of tens of thousands of practitioners and claimed at least 2,000 lives, the world's attention has shifted elsewhere. The drive against the spiritual group has eliminated its leadership, decimated the ranks of faithful and convinced many Chinese that the group is an "evil cult," as the government contends. But 10 years on, the war on Falun Gong remains unfinished.
Hypothesis: Falun Gong is a spiritual group.
Premise: A four-day state of emergency has been declared in the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar after violent protests occurred after allegations of vote rigging and fraud in Sunday's elections. Reports state that 5 people have been killed, and over 300 injured. The injured were police and protesters alike, suffering from smoke poisoning, rubber bullets, and stoning. Among the injured was a Japanese citizen, who was reportedly flown to Japan in the morning.
Hypothesis: 300 people were killed in Mongolia.
Premise: Ecuador has received short shrift in U.S. policy debates. Yet in recent years, significant public debate has taken place in Ecuador on the joint U.S./Colombian initiative and its effects on Ecuador and its citizens.
Hypothesis: Peru debates border region with Ecuador.
Premise: Reagan was seriously wounded by a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr. in an attempted assassination, but made a remarkably speedy recovery.
Hypothesis: Reagan survived an attempted assassin's bullets.
Premise: With more than 223,000 refugees already in Texas, Perry said officials at relief centers, around the state, say they are running out of room.
Hypothesis: With more than 220,000 refugees in Texas, Perry warned that his state was running out of room.
Premise: The prize is named after Alfred Nobel, a pacifist and entrepreneur who invented dynamite in 1866. Nobel left much of his wealth to establish the award, which has honoured achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts to promote peace since 1901.
Hypothesis: Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
Premise: Ostriches put their heads into the sand to avoid the wind.
Hypothesis: Ostriches bury their heads in the sand.
Premise: Hugh Jackman has done it all - almost. He's hosted the Oscars, danced on Broadway, flashed his winning grin and flexed his acting muscles, but Friday is the first time the Australian actor will claw his way into movie theaters as the main attraction. In "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," there's no Halle Berry or Nicole Kidman by his side to buoy the box office. This time it's just Jackman, his claws and a heap of Hollywood expectations to the tune of $150 million.
Hypothesis: Hugh Jackman will play the magician Harry Houdini.
Premise: The rapidly mixed brigades of former enemies have been sent to the front lines with no salaries, rations, or any formal training, increasing the likelihood of future human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a statement. Among the former rebels integrated into the regular army are Bosco Ntaganda, who was recently promoted to the position of general. He is wanted on an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court for enlisting child soldiers and is accused of commanding the rebel troops that massacred 150 villagers in the town of Kiwanja last November.
Hypothesis: Bosco Ntaganda is a general.
Premise: The 84-year-old pope was wheeled to a hospital window, and blessed the crowd by making the sign of the cross in clear gestures, as a Vatican photographer snapped pictures.
Hypothesis: The pope made the sign of the cross.
Premise: Janet Elaine Adkins, 54, used a controversial machine to commit suicide in Michigan.
Hypothesis: An Alzheimer patient was in Michigan for an assisted suicide.
Premise: The bet, which won him dinner for four, was regarding the existence and mass of the top quark, an elementary particle discovered in 1995.
Hypothesis: The Top Quark is the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.
Premise: The drive towards this new law was driven in part from a string of transport-related disasters in the late 1980s, such as the sinking of cross-Channel ferry the Herald of Free Enterprise in 1987, the oil platform Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, and the Marchioness Thames river boat collision in 1989. More than 400 people lost their lives in these three disasters, but no one individual or organisation was brought to account.
Hypothesis: 100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Premise: Brent Frei, the co-founder of midmarket CRM vendor Onyx Software Corp., plans to step down as chief executive and chairman.
Hypothesis: Brent Frei quits ceo position.
Premise: As leaders gather in Argentina ahead of this weekends regional talks, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's populist president is using an energy windfall to win friends and promote his vision of 21st-century socialism.
Hypothesis: Hugo Chávez acts as Venezuela's president.
Premise: Al-Qaida-linked militants have carried out a series of suicide bombings targeting Western interests in Indonesia since 2002.
Hypothesis: Since 2002 Al-Qaida militants have tried to hit Western interests in Indonesia.
Premise: France is to compensate people who suffered health problems as a result of three decades of nuclear weapons tests, its government says.  It was time to investigate health complaints reported by staff who took part in tests, Defence Minister Herve Morin said.  Mr Morin told Le Figaro France should be "true to its conscience".  France carried out more than 200 tests, firstly in Algeria and later in French Polynesia, between 1966 and 1996.  Mr Morin said about 150,000 civil and military workers were "theoretically affected" by the tests.  Mr Morin said an independent commission would examine claims on a case-by-case basis.  He added that 10m euros ($13.6m; £9.3m) had already been earmarked to compensate victims.
Hypothesis: France carried out more than 200 nuclear tests during 30 years.
Premise: Although he won with the lowest majority ever tallied by the ruling party , 48.7% of the votes , his ballots almost doubled those of outsider Diego Fernandez de Cevallos , the rightist runner-up . And insiders are now favored to win other Latin American elections in the coming months : In Brazil , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , a former Senate leader and Cabinet minister , is expected to finish ahead of outsider Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva , a leftist former labor leader , in the first round of president.
Hypothesis: Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.
Premise: Gold mining operations in California and Nevada use cyanide to extract the precious metal.
Hypothesis: Cyanide is used in gold mining.
Premise: Hakimi also claimed that the rebels killed Mawlavi Waqifi, a religious leader in the southeastern province of Khost.
Hypothesis: Mawlavi Waqifi lived in the southeastern province of Khost.
Premise: The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but they seem to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands, Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village, in the Middle Andaman Island, told Reuters by phone.
Hypothesis: Smriti Kana Saha is a resident of Ranjat village.
Premise: Budapest consists of two parts, Buda and Pest, which are situated on opposite sides of the river and connected by a series of bridges.
Hypothesis: Budapest consists of two principal parts that were merged in 1873.
Premise: The ship, owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and flagged in the Cayman Islands, came under attack at around 4 p.m. Somali time (UTC+3) as gunfire came from two small priate boats. The vessel, with a crew of eighteen from the Philippines, suffered light damage to its front and windows were broken. The Jasmine Ace was en-route from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates to Mombasa, Kenya. The 126.75m car carrier had loaded with 377 used cars in Sharjah on March 17.
Hypothesis: Mitsui O.S.K is the owner of the Cayman Islands.
Premise: Consumers continued buying fewer lattes and coffees at Starbucks in its second quarter and restructuring charges led to a 77 percent in net income, but the drop in sales was something of an improvement. Starbucks Corp. - hurt in recent quarters by the perception that its drinks are too pricey - said Wednesday that sales at established locations fell 8 percent both worldwide and in the U.S. the first three months of 2009 compared with a year earlier. In the last three months of last year, Starbucks' global same-store sales fell 9 percent and U.S. same-store sales declined 10 percent.
Hypothesis: Starbucks is a US coffee giant.
Premise: Israel controls an area of about 850 square kilometres in the south of the Lebanese Republic, while Syria has about 30 thousand soldiers over two thirds of the Lebanese territory.
Hypothesis: Syria has 30,000 soldiers in 60% of Lebanon, and Israel controls an area in the south of 850 square kms.
Premise: Ashley Olsen has decided to remain with her twin sister, Mary-Kate, instead of going on a planned trip to Australia to promote the opening of the siblings' latest movie adventure "New York Minute," reports the AP.
Hypothesis: Ashley Olsen plans a trip to Australia with Mary-Kate.
Premise: The privately owned spacecraft only got about 400 feet into space, according to radar measurements, but it was enough to confirm that it no longer takes a well-heeled government project to organize space travel.
Hypothesis: private spaceship launches
Premise: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was elected March 28 with a mandate to reform Italy's business regulations and pull the economy out of recession.
Hypothesis: The Italian Prime Minister is Silvio Berlusconi.
Premise: Although the number of the confirmed Ebola cases has risen slightly to 26 in Gabon and to 16 in Congo Brazzaville, new infections are now so low that it seems the epidemic is "burning out".
Hypothesis: Ebola Epidemic breaks out in Zaire.
Premise: According to research done by an anti-spam research company Sophos, the United States is the point of origin of over 42% of all spam. Trailing are South Korea with 13% and China with 8% of the world's spam. The security firm performed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures ―a honeypot is a special system set up to attract spam or spammers in order to gauge spammer activity. Such activity is not entirely unexpected. The United States accounts for slightly over 25% of all Internet usage, whereas South Korea and China have about 4% and 11% of the world's Internet users, respectively. Yet these percentages still point to the U.S. as being a disproportionate source for spam.
Hypothesis: The United States produces spam.
Premise: Glue sniffing is most common among teenagers. They generally grow out of it once other drugs such as alcohol and cannabis become available to them. Seven-year-olds have been known to start "glue sniffing". Because of the social stigma attached to "glue sniffing" most snifters stop around 16 or 17 years, unless they are seriously addicted.
Hypothesis: Glue-sniffing is common among youngsters.
Premise: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf held talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London on Tuesday, reassuring his host that Pakistan will hold a fair election next month and is ready to continue a sustained fight against terrorism and extremism. The visit has been widely called President Musharraf's "charm offensive." The Pakistani leader has held talks in Brussels, Paris, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and now in London in an effort which has been seen as an attempt to shore up European support for his government.
Hypothesis: Musharraf met Brown in London.
Premise: The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.
Hypothesis: Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow.
Premise: This year, however, the contest has taken on a new urgency as the Clinton Administration, moving to block the Pyongyang government's bid to build a nuclear arsenal, has rekindled some of the passion in North Korea's defiance of the West.
Hypothesis: Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.
Premise: Sondhi Limthongkul, the founder of the political movement which overran Bangkok's airport last year, is in hospital after a gunman wielding an AK-47 ambushed his car at a petrol station and sprayed it with bullets early this morning. The unknown number of gunmen shot out the tyres of the car owned by Mr Sondhi, the head of the People's Alliance for Democracy 'yellow shirt' movement, and riddled the vehicle with bullets. Stray bullets also hit a nearby public bus.
Hypothesis: Sondhi Limthongkul has been hit by more than 100 bullets.
Premise: The Yankees split Hollywood with something to feel OK about after last night's 5-4 loss to the Dodgers.
Hypothesis: Dodgers lose first game ever at Fenway
Premise: The Yemeni Islamic Jihad group emerged in 1992, and it is comprised of old warriors from Afghanistan.
Hypothesis: Yemen's Islamic Jihad group was set up by old Afgan warriors in 1992.
Premise: Ms. Miers' whole life was based in Dallas and revolved around her legal work, her family and an attachment to an evangelical church that led her to what her former pastor described as a flowering of faith late in life.
Hypothesis: Ms. Miers was a leader of an evangelical church.
Premise: RJ Reynolds Tobacco announced yesterday that it plans to build a factory in Turkey to produce cigarettes by late 1993.
Hypothesis: RJR built factories in Turkey.
Premise: Yes, water is a critical area of dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict; but given the current climate of peacemaking, and given the general war-weariness among states and populations, such predictions are excitable pieces of subjectivism.
Hypothesis: There is a territorial waters dispute.
Premise: The organizers of the 15th International AIDS Conference, scheduled for next month in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday responded to press reports that a prominent hotel in Bangkok discriminated against HIV-positive visitors attending a different conference this month.
Hypothesis: HIV-positive visitors take part in the 15th International AIDS Conference.
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.
Hypothesis: Klaus Pohl is a German dramatist.
Premise: The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), one of the main stock indices in the United States, has broken an all-time closing record, to close at 14,000.41 points which is up 82.19 points (0.59%) from its last close. Just 59 days before, the Dow hit an all-time high when it passed 13,000. This is the first time the DJIA has ever closed above 14,000 since its debut on May 26, 1896.
Hypothesis: The Dow Jones has gained points.
Premise: It is the country's aging nuclear facility that currently concerns Armenian environmental groups as well as those in neighboring countries. Twenty miles west of the capital Yerevan, Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant was built in 1970s and houses two VVER-440 Model V230 nuclear reactors. Metsamor, which currently produces about 40 percent of the country's electricity, is located in a seismically active zone and was closed even before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union because of the devastating Dec. 7, 1988, earthquake in Spitak.
Hypothesis: Metsamor nuclear reactor was shut down after the 1988 Armenian earthquake.
Premise: Pratibha Patil has won the 12th Presidential Elections of the Republic of India, becoming the first woman president of the second most populous country in the world. Patil, 72, previously governor of the state of Rajasthan, had support from the governing coalition. She won approximately two thirds of the vote, almost double the number of votes of her nearest rival Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, who resigned as Vice-President after losing the poll.
Hypothesis: Chile has a female President.
Premise: In documents they filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, government lawyers argued that three inmates who committed suicide last month by hanging themselves coordinated their actions by using attorney-client confidentiality to communicate with each other. Government officials said that among papers marked "Attorney Client Privilege" were instructions on how to tie knots and a classified memo on camp activities and inmate locations.
Hypothesis: Three people committed suicide in jail.
Premise: The world's fast-growing thirst for water can only be met by purifying sea water as rivers and reservoirs become unable to meet demand, Spain said last week unveiling a major program to fight its own chronic shortages.
Hypothesis: The Ebro Delta is used for farming.
Premise: The Marriott is a popular place for foreigners to stay and a prominent enterprise in the city, despite a wave of violence the country suffers. The hotel had been victim of another attack in January 2007 where a security guard was killed and several people injured after the guard blocked a bomber from getting at the hotel, forcing him to detonate his explosives where he was.
Hypothesis: There is a Marriott Hotel in London.
Premise: This case is one of the first to be prosecuted under a new U.S. law regulating unwanted e-mail.
Hypothesis: There is a new U. S. law that bans e-mail.
Premise: Cage is a big fan of "Superman" (who was born on the fictional planet Krypton) and was to play the role in a film planned for the 1990s that never came to be.
Hypothesis: Cage played Superman.
Premise: The German-based team say their study is the only report of prolonged hibernation in a tropical mammal.
Hypothesis: The team studies hibernating mammals in Germany.
Premise: Nine soldiers and two police officers were killed in the ensuing gun battle, and two police officers were wounded, the officials said.
Hypothesis: Six policemen and two soldiers were killed in a gunbattle, officials said.
Premise: Iran will hold the first runoff presidential election in its history, between President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran's hard-line mayor, election officials said Saturday.
Hypothesis: Hashemi Rafsanjani will face Tehran's hard-line mayor in Iran's first runoff presidential election ever, officials said Saturday.
Premise: Edwin Hubble is recongized as having been one of the foremost astronomers of the modern era.
Hypothesis: Edwin Hubble was an astronomer.
Premise: The Herald is now pleased that Kennedy can vigorously pursue a re-examination of the Iraq war and how to extricate our nation from it. Speaking seriously, I'll take this change of heart as a sobering indication that all of us, wherever we stand on the liberal-conservative continuum, are deeply concerned about the damaging impacts of the Iraq war and are looking for ways to work together to resolve it as soon as possible.
Hypothesis: All are deeply concerned about the damage of the Iraq war and are looking for ways to resolve it.
Premise: To the south of Castle Hill rises the higher Gellert Hill ( 771 feet ), a steep limestone escarpment overlooking the Danube, which provides a panoramic view of the whole city.
Hypothesis: To the south is Gellert Hill, which features the 19th-century Citadel.
Premise: Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation,  Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died.
Hypothesis: Playwright Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Death of a Salesman', has died.
Premise: Coal company stocks got a lift Monday morning after an article in Barron's said the industry was benefiting from soaring natural gas prices and the advent of new power plants that emit less pollution.
Hypothesis: Coal stocks rise.
Premise: Discovery of the top quark, if confirmed, completes one set of subatomic building blocks whose existence is predicted by the prevailing theory, called the Standard Model, of the particles and forces that determine the fundamental nature of matter and energy. In the whimsical lexicon of modern physics, the elementary particles are called quarks, leptons and bosons.
Hypothesis: Quarks, leptons, and bosons are the three elementary particles of physics according to the Standard Model.
Premise: Beijing's hard-line stance on the Dalai Lama has grown considerably tougher in recent years. Ties with Germany nose-dived after Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the Dalai Lama in September 2007, recovering only after Berlin offered a pledge similar to that made by France on Wednesday. Companies alleged to have supported the exiles' activities have been subjected to smear campaigns and boycott calls in China, and an appearance in mainland China by the British rock group Oasis was axed by Beijing last month because guitarist and chief songwriter Noel Gallagher once took part in a free Tibet concert — in 1997.
Hypothesis: Angela Merkel is a Buddhist.
Premise: Kabul - A roadside bomb that injured six U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, was followed by a blast near a Kabul police station, Monday, that hurt two police officers and a civilian.
Hypothesis: The six U.S. soldiers were residents in Afghanistan.
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.
Hypothesis: A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.
Premise: It has become increasingly clear that Iran is making rapid progress toward attaining a nuclear weapons capability as U.S. officials have confirmed the presence of various nuclear sites that Tehran has failed to disclose
Hypothesis: Iranian chemical weapons threaten United States.
Premise: Kuwait becomes the fourth Gulf country where women as well as men can vote in elections. Saudi Arabia holds strictly limited, male-only elections.
Hypothesis: Women can vote in elections in Saudi Arabia.
Premise: In Seoul, Han confirmed that all North Korean media on Monday had started referring to Kim Jong Il as "His Excellency" or by the term previously reserved for his father, "the Great Leader." Until now, the younger Kim has been called "the Dear Leader."
Hypothesis: Kim Il Sung's son is called Kim Jong Il.
Premise: The Daily Mail has confirmed it has pulled out of the bidding for rival newspaper the Daily Telegraph.
Hypothesis: Daily telegraph is sold.
Premise: In a game ripe with controversy, Manchester United walked away with a crucial away win after a Ryan Giggs free kick gave them the lead. Lille protested the goal, saying the team was setting up its wall at the time Giggs took the kick, and the team nearly left the pitch. After goading by officials, the game was resumed, but Lille said it would be making a stake for a replay with UEFA. UEFA has rejected the claim and declared the goal valid, as well as deciding to "instigate proceedings against Lille for the improper behaviour of their players immediately after the goal."
Hypothesis: Lille has defeated Manchester United.
Premise: According to Nelson Beavers, who is a co-owner of the current company, Carolina Analytical Laboratories, LLC. and has ownership/employment history with Woodson-Tenent and Eurofins, the septic system was installed in the early 1990s.
Hypothesis: Nelson Beavers worked for Eurofins.
Premise: On the eve of a widely anticipated retaliation against Russian forces in Grozny, military commanders withdrew key units from the city, leaving it vulnerable to guerrilla infiltration.
Hypothesis: Russian forces vulnerable to guerrilla fighters