Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) provides funding for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis treatment in 15 focus countries among the world's poorest, mainly in Africa. As of September 30, PEPFAR supported life-saving antiretroviral treatment for over 2.1 million men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS around the world, including more than two million people in Sub Saharan Africa, Perino said. Nearly 9.7 million people affected by HIV/AIDS in PEPFAR countries, including nearly four million orphans and other children, had received "compassionate care" by that date, she said. "Nearly 240,000 babies have been born HIV-free due to the support of the American people for programs to prevent mothers from passing the virus on to their children," Perino added.
Hypothesis: Pepfar was founded by President Bush.
Premise: David Marshall, responsible for customer training at ABB Robotics in Milton Keynes, fervently hopes that the food, drinks and confectionery industry will become the next big market for robots.
Hypothesis: Robots are used in the food industry, in general.
Premise: The Dayton Peace Accords for Bosnia and Herzegovina was the first major peace agreement adopted after the Beijing conference, in December 1995.
Hypothesis: The Dayton Peace Treaty was formulated to end the war in Bosnia.
Premise: A jet filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday, in Venezuela.
Hypothesis: A plane carrying vacationers home to the island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in Venezuela.
Premise: The capacity people have to adjust and make peace with a new situation, even if they feel vulnerable, is really remarkable, said Randy Quevillon, chair of the psychology department and the Disaster Mental Health Institute at the University of South Dakota.
Hypothesis: Randy Quevillon is employed at the University of South Dakota.
Premise: Eddeh reasserted his opinion that President Al-Hrawi ought to be reinstated for another 3 years, claiming that the he "has considerable experience in the running of the state, but his resignation would be appropriate after the withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian forces."
Hypothesis: Eddeh calls for an extension to Al-Hrawi's presidency, saying that he should resign after the withdrawal of the Israeli and Syrian forces."
Premise: The first dinosaur remains in south-east Asia were found in Laos as early as 1936, but little else eventuated until the 1980s. Much of the area is heavily vegetated, and although difficult to explore, promises many significant finds in the future. Thailand has provided the best finds, particularly from the Khorat Group, which covers the period from the late Triassic to the early Cretaceous .
Hypothesis: Dinosaur remains were found in Asia.
Premise: Friday, June 9, 2006 Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry signed SB 1800 that allows the death penalty or life without parole for those convicted of sexually abusing a child under the age of 14. Additionally, the bill also establishes a Child Abuse Response Team within the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Oklahoma has now joined Florida, Louisiana, Montana, and South Carolina to have similar measures for repeat child molestation.
Hypothesis: SB 1800 is a law that protects children.
Premise: The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.
Hypothesis: The Pharos Lighthouse was built around 280 BC.
Premise: United States astronaut Sunita Williams, currently on board the International Space Station, has today broken the record for the longest unbroken space flight by a woman. At 5:47 a.m. UTC Williams passed the previous record of 188 days and four hours set by Shannon Lucid in 1996. This is not the only record Williams has broken. Earlier this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on space walks.
Hypothesis: Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.
Premise: Like the United States, U.N. officials are also dismayed that Aristide killed a conference called by Prime Minister Robert Malval in Port-au-Prince in hopes of bringing all the feuding parties together.
Hypothesis: Aristide kills Prime Minister Robert Malval
Premise: Michael Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and the star cast, including Scottie Pippen, took the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships.
Hypothesis: The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago.
Premise: A Miami International Airport concourse was evacuated for three hours Wednesday, after a pepper spray can discharged, causing 43 people to suffer respiratory distress.
Hypothesis: An Airport concourse was evacuated Wednesday, after people began having trouble breathing.
Premise: Hinostroza's children told police that four hooded individuals broke into the house and shot their mother after having insulted her.
Hypothesis: Hinostroza's children attaked their mother with a gun.
Premise: Food and Drug Administration, which regulates human experiments, says its regulations forbid human cloning without prior agency permission, and it has launched an investigation into whether Clonaid illegally performed any work on U.S. soil.
Hypothesis: Food and Drug Administration forbids human cloning without prior permission.
Premise: Three major bombings in less than a week will be causing some anxiety among political leaders in Baghdad and Washington.  Last Thursday 10 people were killed by a car bomb at a crowded cattle market in Babel province, south of Baghdad.  On Sunday more than 30 died when a suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up at a police academy in the capital. Tuesday's bombing in Abu Ghraib also killed and wounded a large number of people - including journalists and local officials.
Hypothesis: Some journalists and local officials were killed in one of the three bombings in the Baghdad area.
Premise: In an interview this week, the president said that Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be a valued part of his administration until his presidency comes to an end.
Hypothesis: Dick Cheney is Vice President of the Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Premise: Estimates vary widely, but it is believed there are up to 100 million children toiling in homes, factories, shops, fields, brothels and on the streets of rural and urban India.
Hypothesis: Child labor is widely used in Asia.
Premise: The group, along with a broad coalition of disarmament, environmental, peace, and religious organizations, expects the boycott to put pressure on French companies to exert their economic influence and encourage Chirac to end all nuclear weapons testing.
Hypothesis: International pressure is exerted to end French nuclear tests.
Premise: The answer to the number one question, "how many continents are there?", is seven.
Hypothesis: There are seven continents.
Premise: Dr. David Nabarro, of the World Health Organization, said a pandemic could come at any time and claim anywhere between 5 million and 150 million lives, depending on the world's response to bird flu.
Hypothesis: The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.
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 on 1 November 1945.
Premise: After two years, the aspirin subjects experienced a reduced risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke.
Hypothesis: People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.
Premise: A teenager, belonging to the anti-scientology group Anonymous, has admitted that he launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the official website of the Church of Scientology, scientology.org. Dmitriy Guzner, aged 18, will admit to the charges related to carrying out the DDoS attack. He now faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment. In response to incidents such as these, Scientology have called Anonymous "cyber-terrorists." A DDoS attack occurs when multiple computers are used to attack a certain website with so much traffic that it is not accessible. The hackers attack the servers taking up all the available space, preventing the legitimate user from accessing.
Hypothesis: The 18 year-old D. Guzner is a member of the Anonymous group which attacked Scientology website.
Premise: It is an independence movement among the Tamil peoples of northern Sri Lanka -- the ancient land of Ceylon independent from Britain in 1948 and took the name Sri Lanka, a Sinhalese word, in 1972.
Hypothesis: The current name of Ceylon is Sri Lanka.
Premise: The biopic of wannabe actor, Johnny Stompanato, may be directed by Adrian Lyne of "Fatal Attraction" and "Indecent Proposal" fame.
Hypothesis: Johnny Stomponato starred in Fatal Attraction.
Premise: The Sea-Viewing wide Field-of-View Sensor, SeaWiFS, has brought to oceanographers a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing data.
Hypothesis: Ocean remote sensing is developed.
Premise: 20 million years ago there were apes, and by 5 million years ago our closest ancestors and cousins, early ape-humans, had split from the other apes.
Hypothesis: Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Premise: The American Defense Department reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircraft carriers and B52 bombers.
Hypothesis: The Pentagon reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircrafts.
Premise: During that time, Wilson received the best-play Tony Award for "Fences," plus best-play Tony nominations for six of his other plays, the Pulitzer Prize for both "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson," and (a record) seven New York Drama Critics' Circle prizes.
Hypothesis: Wilson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Premise: Canada is officially a bilingual country but, with nearly 60% of the population speaking English as their mother-tongue, and only 24% speaking French as their first language, some people are questioning whether Canada is truly a bilingual nation or rather, a bilingual nation on paper only. French is not the only linguistic minority in Canada, and some of the languages spoken, in order of popularity, are Chinese, Italian, German, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Ukrainian, Arabic, Dutch, Tagalog, Greek, Vietnamese, Cree and Inuktitut.
Hypothesis: French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.
Premise: Anglo/Dutch Royal Dutch Shell, Total, of France, and Spain's Repsol were all named as examples of established oil companies involved in the oil-for-food programme before surcharges began in 2001.
Hypothesis: Total participated in the oil-for-food programme.
Premise: Alzheimer's disease is successfully treated, and controlled by drugs which inhibit the synthesis of beta-amyloid protein.
Hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs.
Premise: Glue-sniffing and other forms of solvent abuse are being overlooked in the fight against drugs, according to a new report.
Hypothesis: Glue-sniffing is common among youngsters.
Premise: A gunman has killed at least nine people in a series of shootings across two towns in the southern US state of Alabama before killing himself. Officials say there were at least four separate shooting incidents. The gunman fired on homes, a petrol station, shops and vehicles in Samson and Geneva near the Florida border.  Five people - including a child - were killed in one home. Several of the victims are believed to have been members of the gunman's family.  The gunman has not been formally identified, but was named in the local press as Michael McLendon.
Hypothesis: Michael McLendon has killed his child in Samson.
Premise: China's announcement of a rival Panchen Lama to the boy already recognized by the Dalai Lama are indications that its Communist regime is desperate in using any means possible to strengthen control over Tibet and Tibetan affairs.
Hypothesis: Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation.
Premise: Although Eurodisney is a great family day out, visit also the chateaux in the area and the various parks and pretty small villages.
Hypothesis: EuroDisney is located in the various parks.
Premise: Vodafone's share of net new subscribers in Japan has dwindled in recent months.
Hypothesis: There have been many new subscribers to Vodafone in Japan in the past few months.
Premise: The loss offered a minor moral victory for Liverpool, as they scored only the second goal this season against Chelsea in league play.
Hypothesis: Liverpool beat Chelsea.
Premise: However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.
Hypothesis: Some of the gunmen showed loyalty to Baquba's group.
Premise: About 10 million people live in the Paris metropolitan area, more than 15 percent of the country's total population. France's second largest city is Marseille (795,600) on the Mediterranean coast.
Hypothesis: About 10 million people live in France.
Premise: The Scots pioneered the idea of a single currency, when they shared the Ecu with France during the Auld Alliance, and therefore they are certain to join in the monetary union process again when the EU states amalgamate their currencies under Maastricht.
Hypothesis: France still maintains Ecu is the best denomination for the Maastricht single-currency..
Premise: A.C. Milan is in second place with 13 points, after two first-half goals from captain Paolo Maldini earned them a 2-1 victory over Reggina.
Hypothesis: A.C. Milan lost to Reggina.
Premise: The plane involved in the incident was a Bombardier Dash 8, which crashed into a home located at 6038 Long Street in Clarence Center, a suburb of Buffalo. It went down at approximately 10:17 p.m. EST (03:20 UTC), February 12. 44 passengers, an off-duty pilot, and four crew members died in the accident, as well as one person on the ground.
Hypothesis: A plane crashed while flying on autopilot.
Premise: The surge in violence has occurred while U.S. Marines and Iraqi troops battle insurgents near Karabilah on the Syrian border. British and American warplanes pounded targets to support a 1,000 Marine force. A Marine statement also said patrols in the devastated city of Fallujah came under attack Sunday. According to the statement, 15 insurgents were killed while the attack was repulsed.
Hypothesis: Fallujah is not far from Karabilah.
Premise: O.J. Simpson has been arrested at the Palms Hotel and Casino on charges related to an alleged armed robbery on Thursday. Simpson is accused of taking items from memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station casino-hotel in Las Vegas. Simpson claims that the items belonged to him and were "things he hadn't seen in years or that had been stolen." Simpson denies guns were involved and that the incident was a robbery. The exact charges are currently unknown.
Hypothesis: O.J. Simpson was released in Las Vegas.
Premise: According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a cholera epidemic in the African country of Zimbabwe has now infected over 80,200 people. The epidemic is the worst cholera outbreak in Africa for fifteen years. The United Nations agency stated that approximately half of all the patients that died of the disease did not reach any of the 365 cholera treatment centers located in the country.
Hypothesis: A cholera outbreak hit Zimbabwe.
Premise: Unlike the three subtypes, Zaire, Sudan and Ivory Coast, which can cause hemorrhagic symptoms, Reston does not. There has been no evidence that Reston can cause significant illness in humans. When Reston was previously found in monkeys, few animal handlers were infected but only one had very mild symptoms, the DOH's official website announced. In January 1997, the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered the immediate slaughter of some 600 monkeys in Ferlite, a breeding farm in Laguna, to prevent an outbreak of Reston ebolavirus.
Hypothesis: DOH stands for Department of Hurricanes.
Premise: In 1969, more than 500 million people around the world sat in front of television sets, watching grainy images of two men in white bulky spacesuits planting a U.S. flag on the lunar landscape with its black horizon.
Hypothesis: The Apollo astronauts waved the American flag on the moon in 1969.
Premise: Manuel Rosales, who ran against Mr Chavez in the 2006 presidential election, faces corruption charges he says are baseless. He had been in hiding since the charges were filed last month. Venezuela's Interior Minister Tareck el-Aissami said Mr Rosales was a criminal on the run. "If he doesn't appear before the appropriate courts, he would be a fugitive from justice, and as a result the court will activate mechanisms for his international capture," said Mr Aissami, denying that the charges were political.
Hypothesis: Manuel Rosales was mayor of Maracaibo.
Premise: Vivid spokesperson Jackie Markham has said the footage was created earlier this year and was purchased by the company two months ago from an unidentified third party. Markham said Jessica's attorney has not contacted them and she is unsure if any proceeds will reach Sierra. The tape also shows her making abusive comments about other contestants, such as Carrie Underwood, who has gone on to have some success.
Hypothesis: Jessica Sierra once reached the finals of "American Idol".
Premise: 20th Century spokesman Rick Dinon said that between the time it applied for the rate increase and changed its mind, the estimated quake losses had ballooned by several hundred million dollars.
Hypothesis: Rick Dinon is the senior vice president of 20th Century Insurance Co.
Premise: Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held.
Hypothesis: Two British soldiers' imprisonment prompted UK troops to storm a police station.
Premise: A Colombian airliner has crashed in a remote area of Venezuela killing all 160 people on board.
Hypothesis: A Colombian plane crashed in a remote region of Venezuela.
Premise: The World Bank has also been criticized for its role in financing projects that have been detrimental to human rights and the natural environment.
Hypothesis: The World Bank is criticized for its activities.
Premise: Qatar and Oman are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, which also groups Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Hypothesis: The members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain.
Premise: Oracle had fought to keep the forms from being released
Hypothesis: Oracle released a confidential document
Premise: The ivory ban was imposed by CITES in 1989 after a wave of poaching across Africa saw elephant numbers fall from an estimated 1.3 million to a few hundred thousand.
Hypothesis: The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.
Premise: A run by Mr. Feinblatt would complicate what is already a three-person race because he most likely would have the support of the powerful mayor, who is running for a third term. Such a move could also irritate the outgoing district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, because it could hurt the chances of his preferred candidate, Cyrus R. Vance Jr. The relationship between Mr. Morgenthau and Mr. Bloomberg has been strained, in part because of the district attorney's investigation into the fire at the former Deutsche Bank building, which found that lapses by the city had contributed to the deaths of two firefighters.
Hypothesis: Feinblatt works for Bloomberg.
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: The Olsen twins star in "New York Minute."
Premise: Still, the storm surge was both stronger and earlier than expected, apparently coming through waterways southeast of the city, said Col. Richard Wagenaar, the Army Corps of Engineers' district chief in New Orleans.
Hypothesis: Col. Richard Wagenaar said the problems would set back repairs at least three weeks, but June was still the target for having the levees back to pre-Katrina strength.
Premise: On Thursday, Syria said that it supports Iran's nuclear stance and said it "has a right to atomic technology," and said Western objections to Tehran's nuclear ambitions were "not persuasive." It comes in the wake of demands by US and European countries for Iran to halt its nuclear fuel enrichment activities. Iran notes that its nuclear program is civilian and consistent with Article IV of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which establishes the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and that it in line with Article IV, it will not abandon its enrichment efforts.
Hypothesis: Iran is backed up by Syria.
Premise: Guggenheim Museum, officially Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, was founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Art.
Hypothesis: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was opened in 1939.
Premise: State Police issued bulletins via teletype requesting patrols to be on the lookout for Robert Senacal, 35, of Cortlandt Manor.
Hypothesis: Robert Senacal was arrested by police.
Premise: Neil Armstrong was an aviator in the Navy and was chosen with the second group of astronauts in 1962. Made seven flights in the X-15 program (1960 photo), reaching an altitude of 207,500 feet. Was backup command pilot for Gemini 5, command pilot for Gemini 8, backup command pilot for Gemini 11, backup commander for Apollo 8, and commander for Apollo 11: successfully completing the first moonwalk.
Hypothesis: Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.
Premise: So far Sony BMG has not released a list of how many of its CDs are protected or how many have been sold.
Hypothesis: Sony BMG sells protected CDs.
Premise: At the time, neither "USA Today" nor "The Observer" was able to verify which of the sixty-plus candidates it was.
Hypothesis: USA Today is a subsidiary of "The Observer."
Premise: Every year, about a quarter of all children sustain an injury serious enough to require medical attention, school absences, and/or bed rest.
Hypothesis: Fireworks may cause serious injuries.
Premise: Pop star Madonna has suffered "minor injuries" and bruises after falling from a startled horse on New York's Long Island on Saturday. According to her spokeswoman, the 50-year-old singer fell when her horse was "startled by paparazzi who jumped out of the bushes" to photograph her. Madonna was treated at a hospital in Southampton and was later released. A previous horse-riding accident in 2005 left her with three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand. She got back on a horse a couple of months later for an appearance on David Letterman's US talk show.
Hypothesis: Madonna is 50 years old.
Premise: King Tut Tomb Fetuses May Reveal Pharaoh's Mother - Egypt Mummies Moved for DNA Tests; Pharaoh Among Them? - March 30, 2009—Researchers may have finally come face-to-face with the real—and wrinkled—Nefertiti, thanks to sophisticated CT scanning technology. A carefully carved limestone face in the inner core of the Egyptian queen's famous bust (above, right) has emerged in new images, a new study says. The object, currently on display in Berlin's Altes Museum, was discovered in 1912 during an excavation of the studio of Egyptian royal sculptor Thutmose. The artist had sculpted Nefertiti—wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten—more than 3,300 years ago.
Hypothesis: Nefertiti was the stepmother of King Tutankhamen.
Premise: Orhan Pamuk, a prominent, post-modern writer whose work is translated into more than 40 languages, received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. Pamuk was an admired writer in Turkey until the events in 2005, when lawyers of two Turkish professional associations brought criminal charges against him for "insulting Turkishness" after the author's controversial statements regarding the disputed Armenian Genocide of 1915-1917. He claimed, and repeated his claim, that  ... one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey.
Hypothesis: Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.
Premise: Based on a worldwide study of smoking-related fire and disaster data, UC Davis epidemiologists show smoking is a leading cause of fires and death from fires globally.
Hypothesis: Domestic fires are the major cause of fire death.
Premise: Cooper has never lost sight of these goals, Redford continued. "He brings to the position an infectious enthusiasm as well as a deep understanding of the Sundance brand and culture... He is a natural choice of succession to lead the festival into the 21st century." Among his other accomplishments for Sundance are helping foster the development of New Frontier on Main program, a multimedia conjunction of film, music and other art forms, and helping boost the festival's Internet presence — through its official Web site (www.sundance.org/festival), an online version of the festival, as well as the Sundance Institute's agreements with iTunes and Netflix to showcase and distribute short films.
Hypothesis: Robert Redford is the founder of Sundance Film Festival.
Premise: Two new Les Paul books arrive in stores this year: The Les Paul Legacy by Rob Lawrence is due from Hal Leonard Publishing on October 27.
Hypothesis: Rob Lawrence works for The Les Paul Legacy.
Premise: The New-York based company said, Tuesday, that profits totaled a record $946 million, or 75 cents a share, in the January-March period, up from $794 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier.
Hypothesis: Net income grew to $369 million, or 83 cents per share, in the January-March period from $291 million, or 65 cents per share, a year ago.
Premise: The Santa Barbara Airlines plane took off just before dusk from the city of Mérida en route to Simón Bolívar International Airport outside the capital city of Caracas. Noel Marquez, director of Venezuela's emergency management agency in Mérida, said the plane has failed to contact control towers. Civil Defense chief General Antonio Rivero told reporters that it is unknown whether or not the plane crashed or is simply missing.
Hypothesis: A plane with 46 passengers has not contacted control towers.
Premise: In an interview on a television show called the No Drug Show, hosted by Larry Byrnes, the Church of Scientology blamed both the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the attack on Pearl Harbor on psychiatrists and the drugs they prescribe their patients. Scientology considers psychiatry to be barbaric and a violation of human rights. The video was posted on the video sharing website YouTube, but was later removed "due to a copyright claim by Axiom 10 Productions, Inc." Mark Bunker of XenuTV questioned why Axiom 10 would utilize the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to remove the video from YouTube, as it was promoting their ideology about psychiatrists. It was later re-added to another site called Vimeo.com.
Hypothesis: Scientology is against psychiatry.
Premise: George H.W. Bush served this country not only as President but also as Vice President, Member of Congress, United Nations Ambassador, chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and also, as a naval aviator in World War II. Coming back from the war, he married his sweetheart, Barbara Pierce of Rye, New York, and later that year made his first civilian adult decision when he made the appropriate choice of moving to Texas, where he lived the rest of his life.
Hypothesis: The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
Premise: He had been hand-picked by John Sculley to take over Steve Jobs' position as head of the Macintosh group.
Hypothesis: John Sculley was an executive of the Macintosh group.
Premise: In a statement to reporters, Parker called the spilt with Gap a mutual decision, and walks away $38 million richer and recently signed a 2-year deal with former employer HBO to develop future programming for the network. Parker is also scheduled to appear in two upcoming comedy films, a movie adaptation of the Comedy Central series, Strangers with Candy, as well as The Family Stone, costarring Diane Keaton and Claire Danes.
Hypothesis: Claire Danes is an actress who played in "Stardust".
Premise: The 500,000 eligible, Muslim voters are likely to reward Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) in the September 18 parliamentary election, for its anti-Iraq war position and pro-Muslim policies.
Hypothesis: The parliamentary election takes place on September 18.
Premise: Bless Me, Ultima has survived a challenge in New York without being banned, or indeed, burned. It came in 75th on the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. By comparison, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh positions are occupied by Robert Cormier's The Chocolate War, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, respectively.
Hypothesis: J.K. Rowling is the author of "Harry Potter".
Premise: But these are only first hazards. "If the rain continues at the same magnitude and according to the forecast, then some of the rivers could reach flood stage either later [Tuesday] or Wednesday morning," said Allan Chapman, a hydrologist with the River Forecast Centre in Victoria.
Hypothesis: Allan Chapman is employed at the River Forecast Centre.
Premise: Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has left the Church of England and joined the Roman Catholic Church. Blair, currently the special envoy for Quartet on the Middle East, has long been attending mass with his wife and four children, who are all Catholic. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor received Blair into full communion with the Catholic Church during Mass at Archbishop's House, Westminster, on Friday.
Hypothesis: Blair belongs to the Church of England.
Premise: Vegetables help to preserve your bones, and help fight the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.
Hypothesis: Fruits and vegetables prevent osteoporosis.
Premise: A brain-dead teenager was removed from life-support equipment after giving birth to a premature daughter.
Hypothesis: Pregnant women are allowed to die after they deliver their babies.
Premise: Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.
Hypothesis: Nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties were attacked by the drug trafficking cartels.
Premise: The media always talk about the Dow being up or down a certain number of points.
Hypothesis: Dow Jones is down.
Premise: Cyanide is also used by Muru-ami fishermen in the Philippines to drive fish from the coral reefs.
Hypothesis: Philippine fishermen use cyanide in fishing.
Premise: Camacho is a Mexican version of Japan's Morihiro Hosokawa -- a pragmatic tactician using a crisis and the attendant outcry for reform to further his political standing.
Hypothesis: The Japanese Prime Minister is Morihiro Hosokawa.
Premise: In a move reminiscent for some of another actor, Ronald Reagan, who was twice elected governor of California, Schwarzenegger said he would be putting his movie career on hold so he can devote his time to running for governor.
Hypothesis: Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California.
Premise: Ramadan told reporters at the opening ceremony of the Baghdad International Exposition, "No cooperation and no inspection or monitoring by the American Zionist espionage commission (the Special Commission for disarming Iraq's banned weapons - UNSCOM) before Iraq's demands are met."
Hypothesis: Ramadan announced that Iraq will not cooperate with the inspectors.
Premise: The latest file-sharing service trying to go legit in a bid to avoid an expensive and dragged-out court battle is Grokster Ltd., according to a report published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday.
Hypothesis: File-sharing service, Grokster, is in talks to be acquired by Mashboxx, which is attempting to establish a legal peer-to-peer music company.
Premise: The main race track in Qatar is located in Shahaniya, on the Dukhan Road.
Hypothesis: Qatar is located in Shahaniya.
Premise: The university server containing the information relating to Mason's ID cards was illegally entered by computer hackers.
Hypothesis: Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
Premise: Following the assassination attempt in 1981, Reagan said he felt God had spared him for a purpose, and he intended to devote the rest of his life in dedication to his God and to that purpose.
Hypothesis: Regan was almost assassinated in 1981.
Premise: According to Professor Matthias Egger, from the University of Berne, and Swiss colleagues from Zurich University and a UK team at the University of Bristol, homeopathy has no such evidence.
Hypothesis: Matthias Egger, MD, director of the department of social and preventive medicine (ISPM) at the University of Berne, Switzerland, led the study.
Premise: The dam covering what used to be its football pitch fill up with millions of tons of poisonous mining waste.
Hypothesis: Mine waste-water poses an environmental hazard.
Premise: Kevin Vincent, 44, of Arlington, Va., said his wife buys store brand acetaminophen and he wanted to find out more about the problem.
Hypothesis: Kevin Vincent buys store brand acetaminophen.
Premise: Joe Friday wore badge No. 714-in honor of the number of home runs Ruth hit in his career.
Hypothesis: Ruth hit 714 home runs in his lifetime.
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: 58% of Americans are unsatisfied with Clinton's job performance.
Premise: Valero Energy Corp., on Monday, said it found "extensive" additional damage at its 250,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery.
Hypothesis: Valero Energy Corp. caused damages to Port Arthur refinery.
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: Microsoft Corp. is a partner of Intel Corp.
Premise: Mr Carstens left his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month to work with Mr Calderon, and will now lead efforts to push through market reforms and create more jobs.
Hypothesis: Mr Carstens lost his job as IMF's deputy managing director last month.
Premise: G & H Restaurant Specialties has not released a statement regarding the violations, but the corporate offices in Louisville, Kentucky for KFC said, "our franchisee has finalized a plan for some structural repairs... The units will be temporarily closed while these building maintenance issues are addressed. [They will be] re-opened as soon as the repairs are complete." The health department also gave violations out to the East Delevan store for failing to maintain a clean floor throughout the restaurant and for not stopping food from becoming contaminated. Several rat traps were also found inside the storage cooler and around the kitchen area, but the establishment was "not free of rodents," said Commissioner of the Erie County Health Department, Dr. Anthony Billittier.
Hypothesis: Louisville is in Kentucky.
Premise: A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control boarded the ship when it docked in St. Maarten to oversee the cleaning operation and try to determine what caused the outbreak, Carnival said.
Hypothesis: The causes of the outbreak were searched for by a team from the U.S. CDC.
Premise: The Russian government announced the termination of its "counterterrorism operation" in Chechnya effective April 16. According to the leader of the Russian secret service, Alexander Bortnikov, 20,000 soldiers will leave Chechnya in order to normalise the situation in the autonomous republic of Russia. This happened on behalf of the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who had already announced a possible withdrawal of the Russian troops at the G20 summit in the beginning of April this year. But some forces, the special forces of Moscow's ministry of the interior, will still stay in Chechnya.  Human rights activist Lew Ponomarjov welcomed the situation, saying that the counterterrorism situation in Chechnya had been a severe violation of human rights.
Hypothesis: Alexander Bortnikov lives in Chechnya.
Premise: An American journalist of Russian descent, Klebnikov was shot four times by at least one assassin in a passing car as he stepped outside his office that evening in Moscow. He died shortly after arriving at City Hospital No. 20 in Moscow.
Hypothesis: Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.
Premise: Today in the city of Sao Paulo (from May 1 to May 30) we have a display on Ayrton Senna.
Hypothesis: Ayrton Senna was from Sao Paulo.
Premise: A decision to allow the exiled Italian royal family to return to Italy may be granted amid the discovery that the head of the family, Prince Vittorio Emmanuele, addressed the president of Italy properly. He has called President Ciampi "our president, the president of all Italians".
Hypothesis: Italian royal family returns home.
Premise: While the House has been extremely active in passing bills addressing the key priorities of entrepreneurs, most of the legislation has hit a brick wall over in the Senate.
Hypothesis: The House quickly passes bills addressing the priorities of entrepreneurs.
Premise: There can be no doubt that the Administration already is weary of Aristide, a populist Roman Catholic priest who in December, 1990, won an overwhelming victory in Haiti's only democratic presidential election
Hypothesis: Haiti's only democratic presidential election took place in 1990.
Premise: The controversy became more desperate, this summer, when astronomers discovered a new object, larger than Pluto, orbiting in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of nine billion miles from the Sun.
Hypothesis: The Kuiper Belt is nine billion miles from the Sun.
Premise: For one, Israel can comfortably subtract Gaza's 1.5m inhabitants from its demographic nightmare, maintaining, for a while longer perhaps, the Jewish majority.
Hypothesis: Israel has 1.5m Jewish inhabitants.
Premise: Basque separatist party Batasuna is widely regarded as the political wing of the Basque paramilitary group, ETA - a linkage it denies.
Hypothesis: Batasuna denies it is the political wing of ETA.
Premise: IBM is now at the top of my list of where I want to work. Ivy alone had nine interviews when the team visited the company's headquarters in Armonk last week.
Hypothesis: IBM's has its headquarters in Armonk.
Premise: Samantha Orobator was arrested at Wattay Airport in Laos in August last year after she was allegedly caught with 680g of heroin. In Laos, smuggling more than 500g carries a mandatory death sentence. Reprieve lawyer Anna Morris flew into the country today fearing the trial would start before they were allowed to meet on Tuesday. According to the charity, Orobator was able to make contact with their office in London today and said she had been told the trial would start tomorrow morning. Reprieve said the Laotian authorities brought the trial forward in an apparent attempt to stop lawyers from intervening. Up until now the 20-year-old from south London has had no legal representation.
Hypothesis: Samantha Orobator is a heroin addicted.
Premise: About 50 percent of all British party members are female (in contrast to only about 25 percent in Germany) but only 9.2 percent are represented in parliament.
Hypothesis: Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Premise: Two women from two counties are dead and police have some clues as to who murdered them.
Hypothesis: Police gather clues in double assassination.
Premise: Tom Online revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2005 were US$42.78 mn, an increase of 38.5% over the same period in 2004.
Hypothesis: Tom Online earned US$42.78 mn in three months.
Premise: Prosecutors, who stated their intent on Sunday to seize bonds and cash from Madoff, filed another notice on Tuesday listing assets that they intend to seize, among them "various pieces of jewelry owned or held in the name of Ruth Madoff valued at approximately $2,624,340," and "approximately 35 sets of watches and cufflinks owned by Bernard Madoff," as well as $31.5 million in loans made to Madoff's sons.
Hypothesis: Ruth Madoff is Bernard Madoff's daughter.
Premise: Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the Olympic Range, rises to a height of 7,965 feet (2,428 meters) and is less than 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
Hypothesis: Mount Olympus is in the Olympic Range.
Premise: UNSCOM employs about 120 persons in Iraq, including 40 inspectors.
Hypothesis: Wilson uses some 120 persons in Iraq, 40 of whom are inspectors.
Premise: That prompted Clinton, wife Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea to spend a cold and dreary Saturday in Minsk.
Hypothesis: Clinton's wife is called Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Premise: Traditionally, 60 percent of the tickets sold for a stop on the Vans Warped Tour, for example, occur six days prior to the show.
Hypothesis: Most tours only sell 60 percent of the tickets.
Premise: Public health and animal health officials from the Departments of Health and Community Services and Forest Resources and Agrifoods today confirmed a rabies case involving a red fox in western Newfoundland.
Hypothesis: A case of rabies was confirmed.
Premise: While preliminary work goes on at the Geneva headquarters of the WTO, with members providing input, key decisions are taken at the ministerial meetings.
Hypothesis: The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.
Premise: The disappearance of York University chef Claudia Lawrence is now being treated as suspected murder, North Yorkshire Police said. However detectives said they had not found any proof that the 35-year-old, who went missing on 18 March, was dead. Her father Peter Lawrence made a direct appeal to his daughter to contact him five weeks after she disappeared. His plea came at a news conference held shortly after a £10,000 reward was offered to help find Miss Lawrence. Crimestoppers said the sum they were offering was "significantly higher" than usual because of public interest in the case.
Hypothesis: Claudia Lawrence is 35 years old.
Premise: Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.
Hypothesis: Offers by individual European governments, involved supplies of crude or refined oil products.
Premise: According to the 2002 census Slovenia has 1,964,036 inhabitants.
Hypothesis: Slovenia has 1,964,036 inhabitants.
Premise: Pfizer has reached a broad agreement to pay millions of dollars to Nigeria's Kano state to settle a criminal case alleging that the drug company illegally tested an experimental drug on gravely ill children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic. The details remain private, but sources close to the negotiations said the total payments -- including those to the children, their families, the government and the government's attorneys -- would be about $75 million under the current settlement terms. Other details, including how the money will be distributed, are to be worked out within weeks.
Hypothesis: Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.
Premise: Mayday! Here is Estonia! Outside Uto lighthouse. We have listed 20 to 30 degrees, the Finnish Coast Guard quoted the distress signal.
Hypothesis: The Estonia sank south of Uto island.
Premise: Fishermen using the poison sodium cyanide have helped to destroy an estimated 70% of the reefs.
Hypothesis: Cyanide fishing is linked to the destruction of area reefs.
Premise: On May 17, 2005, the National Assembly of Kuwait passed, by a majority of 35 to 23 (with 1 abstention), an amendment to its electoral law that would allow women to vote and to stand as parliamentary candidates.
Hypothesis: A pro-women amendment was rejected by the National Assembly of Kuwait.
Premise: Mars is considered the red planet because of its bright red color.
Hypothesis: Mars is called 'the red planet'.
Premise: The third, and most remote possibility, was considered to be a so-called Jamaican coalition, again based on the party colours, between the Christian Democrats, the FDP and the Greens.
Hypothesis: It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday it would buy long-distance telephone company MCI Communications Inc. in a deal worth $6.75 billion, giving Verizon a foothold in the market for serving large corporations.
Hypothesis: Verizon Communications Inc.'s $6.7 billion takeover of long-distance provider MCI Inc. transformed the telephone industry.
Premise: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was born in London on April, 21 1926, first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, subsequently King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks later she was christened in the chapel of Buckingham Palace and was given the names Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor. The Queen ascended the throne on February 6, 1952 upon the death of her father, King George VI. Her Coronation followed on June 2, 1953.
Hypothesis: Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.
Premise: A jet, carrying French Caribbean islanders home from a Panama vacation, crashed in rural Venezuela early Tuesday, after the pilot reported trouble with the engines.
Hypothesis: A plane carrying vacationers home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in western Venezuela after reporting engine problems, killing all 160 people on board, officials said.
Premise: The most surprising news story of the past week must be the 'wonderful' story that the AIDS epidemic in India is under control.
Hypothesis: Polio is under control in the world.
Premise: We believe that, with the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, visitors from Taiwan will be encouraged to stay longer in Hong Kong, to experience the magic of our theme park and of our city.
Hypothesis: Disneyland is in Hong Kong.
Premise: Mr Ferdinand Piech said that the German company did not have any confidential plans or documents about GM's ultra-low-cost factory project.
Hypothesis: Documents included secret plans for a new factory.
Premise: That request is at odds with the law signed early yesterday, by Bush, directing the federal courts to consider the case de novo without taking into account the state court's findings.
Hypothesis: President Bush authorized the federal courts to review the case.
Premise: New Zealand film director Peter Jackson is to make a 264-million-New Zealand-dollar (133 million U.S. dollars) trilogy based on Tolkien's fantasy classic "Lord of The Rings," the local TV station reported Tuesday evening.
Hypothesis: Tolkien wrote the fantasy epic called "Lord of the Rings".
Premise: Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines announced plans to cut 7,000 to 9,000 jobs by the end of 2007, approximately 17% of its employees. CEO Gerald Grinstein will take a 25% pay cut. Executives have their pay cut by 15%. Other employees will have their pay reduced by 7 to 10%. Employees that make less than $25,000 a year will not be affected by these pay cuts. Delta has already cancelled leases on 40 aircraft and they plan to reduce its fleet by at least 80 more. They plan to reduce domestic capacity by 15 to 20 percent and increase international capacity by 25 percent.
Hypothesis: European Airlines are cutting jobs.
Premise: It uses the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year as the start of the Chinese New Year.
Hypothesis: The Chinese New Year's Day falls on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year.