Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: Seagate Technology has said it intends to buy rival company Maxtor for $1.9 billion. Both companies produce hard drives. The deal, priced at 60% of Maxtor's closing share price, is intended to acquire Maxtor's customers, not its technology. Seagate, which also makes drives for Microsoft's Xbox 360, will have over 40% of the hard drive market share. The Scotts Valley, California, based Seagate had 30% of the hard drive market. Provided the deal makes it past regulatory committees, Maxtor shareholders will receive .37 of a share of Seagate common stock for every 1 share of the Milpitas based company.
Hypothesis: Maxtor is based in Milpita.
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 competitor of Toshiba Corp.
Premise: Professional computer hackers from the secret services were brought into attempt to hack into the Government's internal secure communicationssystem, which was launched today.
Hypothesis: Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
Premise: The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is trying to reassure lawyers for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes that the inquiry is still on track.
Hypothesis: Police issued John Wadham's statement after lawyers for the de Menezes family met with the complaints commission, demanding more information about the killing.
Premise: President Chirac has been advised that his resumption of nuclear testing would precipitate an international boycott of French products.
Hypothesis: International pressure is exerted to end French nuclear tests.
Premise: Nabih Berri, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament has delayed the presidential vote for an eleventh time since initial voting began on September 25. The last vote was set for December 29 but has been rescheduled for January 12. A senior political source stated the reason for the delay was due to "complications in regional and international negotiations and the severing of domestic talks."
Hypothesis: Lebanon elected a new President.
Premise: Iraq became a sovereign country Monday morning, but only a dozen officials were present at the transfer of power ceremony in the heavily guarded Green Zone of Baghdad. Bremer handed over legal documents that were accepted by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.
Hypothesis: The transfer of power took place in Baghdad.
Premise: Now GMFanuc Robotics has perfected a robotic solution that is three times faster than manual spraying, can reproduce a spray pattern to an accuracy of 0.03 inch, and can be programmed easily to handle a wide range of garments.
Hypothesis: Robots are used to spray dye on garments.
Premise: Comdex -- once among the world's largest trade shows, the launching pad for new computer and software products, and a Las Vegas fixture for 20 years -- has been canceled for this year.
Hypothesis: Comdex launches trade shows for 20 years.
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: GUS sold Wehkamp.
Premise: Prince Charles was previously married to Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in August 1997.
Hypothesis: Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married in August 1997.
Premise: The town lies along the stretch of coastline designated as Gold Beach during the D-Day landings , one of the beaches used by British troops in the allied invasion. Arromanches was selected as one of the sites for two Mulberry Harbours built on the Normandy coast, the other one built further West at Omaha Beach.
Hypothesis: The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.
Premise: Jerusalem was rebuilt and served as Israel's capital off and on under various foreign rulers until 70 AD, when Roman legions burned the city and expelled its Jewish inhabitants.
Hypothesis: Israel has 70 Jewish inhabitants.
Premise: Child labor is, generally speaking, work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking access to education).
Hypothesis: Child labor is widely used in Asia.
Premise: Brad Pitt is causing havoc on his school run. The handsome actor has been spotted taking his kids to school in New York, causing local mothers to fight over who drives all their children in the mornings, in the hope of meeting the star. A source said: "Moms are fighting over who gets to carpool the kids to school. They are all dressing up and are desperate to meet him." Brad, 45, has taken on the duty of driving adopted boys Maddox, eight, and Pax, five, to class while his partner Angelina Jolie shoots her latest film 'Salt'. The couple also raise four other children, adopted daughter Zahara, four, and their naturally conceived children Shiloh, two, and eight-month-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
Hypothesis: Brad Pitt is 45 years old.
Premise: Since independence and the blood bath of partition , in which an estimated 15 million people were uprooted and 200,000 died , India and Pakistan have fought three wars , two over possession of Kashmir .
Hypothesis: India and Pakistan have fought three wars for the possession of Kashmir.
Premise: The Statue of Liberty was reopened to the public on July 5 after its extensive refurbishing. 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
Hypothesis: The Statute of Liberty was built in 1986.
Premise: Apart from the new substances entering the market, the phase out of existing ones, which have been definitely identified as damaging the ozone layer, is far from complete.
Hypothesis: New substances are damaging the ozone layer.
Premise: On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.
Hypothesis: Four people were injured by a grenade.
Premise: Mental health problems in children and adolescents are on the rise, the British Medical Association has warned, and services are ill-equipped to cope.
Hypothesis: Mental health problems increase in the young.
Premise: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai were among foreign dignitaries flying in for Endon's funeral later Thursday. Thousands of people filed past Endon's body, which lay in state wrapped in white linen on a table while Muslim clerics recited verses from the Quran.
Hypothesis: Lee Hsien Loong is friends with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Premise: In Italy, big protests by students and university staff against government reforms to higher education brought parts of central Rome to a standstill on Tuesday.
Hypothesis: The Italian government introduces reforms to higher education.
Premise: In Britain, they channel their energies into gardening and riding. In Holland, they travel by bicycle to prove that they are of the people. But, conforming to a national stereotype, the Italian royal family, exiled from their homeland for 60 years, prefer fast cars and beautiful women.
Hypothesis: Italian royal family returns home.
Premise: No case of indigenously acquired rabies infection has been confirmed in man or any animal species during the past 2 years.
Hypothesis: A case of rabies was confirmed.
Premise: In 2005, Leland Yee, a California State Senator (in District 8 which includes the western half of San Francisco and most of San Mateo County), Speaker pro Tempore of the Assembly (D-San Francisco/Daly City), introduced California Assembly Bills 1792 & 1793 which barred "ultra-violent" video games from minors under the age of eighteen in California and mandated the application of ESRB ratings for video games. "California Assembly Bills 1792 & 1793" were commonly called the "ultraviolent video games bills" or simply "video game ban" bills. Bill 1792 banned the sales of such video games while Bill 1793 required signs explaining the regulations on said games to be placed where such were sold. Both bills were passed by the Assembly and signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger into law (AB 1179) on October 7, 2005.
Hypothesis: California Assembly Bills 1792 & 1793 are laws against ultraviolent video games.
Premise: 'Seeing that the decision to exploit oil in block 16 has been taken, we are now working to make the project as environmentally sustainable as possible,' says Danila Silva of EcoCiencia, an environmental research group.
Hypothesis: Sustainable forestry and development techniques are being employed.
Premise: Green Day, who arrived at the venue in the vintage green convertible from their gritty "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" video, won best rock video and video of the year for the clip and two of their leading eight nominations.
Hypothesis: Rock was resplendent at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night, as the veteran punk group, Green Day, took home seven moonmen.
Premise: Over 100 more lives were lost at sea, and 1800 were lost in Holland.
Hypothesis: 100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Premise: Representatives from 142 nations are expected to sit down in Doha Qatar, next Friday for the World Trade Organization's (WTO) fourth Ministerial Conference.
Hypothesis: Representatives of the 142 member countries of the World Trade Organization will gather in Doha, Qatar, next Friday.
Premise: After giving nearly 5,000 people a second chance at life, doctors are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Britian's first heart transplant which was performed at Cambridgeshire's Papworth Hospital in 1979.
Hypothesis: The first heart transplant in Britian was performed in 1979.
Premise: A juvenile hacker who crippled an airport tower for six hours, damaged atown's phone system, and broke into pharmacy records has been charged in afirst-ever federal prosecution, the U.S. Attorney's office announcedtoday.
Hypothesis: Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.
Premise: The American House of Representatives is due to vote today, on a resolution submitted by the Chairman of the Judicial Committee, Henry Hyde, asking Congress to launch an investigation over charges brought forward by Independent Prosecutor-General Kenneth Star against President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Hypothesis: Voting will take place in the American House of Representatives today, on the President Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Premise: Two 8-year-old girls in Orlando, Florida, located in the United States have made a big donation to the research and curing of breast cancer. Victoria Petrucelly and Jesse Theobald along with classmates from their third grade class at The Christ School, raised almost US$24,000 by setting up lemonade stands and selling pink lemonade. The two girls were thinking about starting the lemonade stand in 2008, but were inspired to donate money when Petrucelly's mother, who suffered from the disease, died on Valentine's Day, February 14.
Hypothesis: Victoria Petrucelly is a student from the Christ School.
Premise: Crippa died a week ago at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, seven days after he ate a heaping plate of the deadly Amanita ocreata mushrooms, said his wife, Joan Crippa. Known as "death angel" for its snow-white appearance, the fungus has deadly toxins that worked their way through Crippa's system, sickening him and eventually causing his liver to fail. Family members had often warned Crippa against indulging in his passion for hunting wild mushrooms, an activity he learned from his Italian immigrant parents, his wife said.
Hypothesis: Crippa's wife, Joan, was an Italian immigrant.
Premise: The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.
Hypothesis: Foreign oil reserves will be made available to the U.S. in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Premise: There is a growing sense of urgency to deal with the country's social issues, and a large number of professional NGOs can meet BOVESPA's standards of transparency and accountability.
Hypothesis: BOVESPA is an NGO.
Premise: Three of its five permanent members, France, Russia and China, are pushing the U.N. Security Council to lift the embargo on Iraq.
Hypothesis: China is a member of the U.N. Security Council.
Premise: Larsson was known in his native Sweden as an investigative journalist and a fervent campaigner against racism. But when he died of a heart attack at age 50 in 2004, he left behind the manuscripts of three books that would transform his legacy. His first novel, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was published in Sweden a year after his death and was already an international success when it was released in the United States last year by Alfred A Knopf. More than 6 million copies of the book have been sold worldwide. An international study based on best-seller lists in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain and China ranked Larsson the second most popular fiction writer in 2008 after Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Hypothesis: The Kite Runner was written by Khaled Hosseini.
Premise: WINNENDEN, Germany ―A teenage gunman killed 15 people, most of them female, on Wednesday in a rampage that began at a school near Stuttgart in southern Germany and ended in a nearby town, where he then killed himself after the police wounded him. The attack left Germany, which tightened tough gun controls after a similar attack at a school seven years ago, struggling to understand the carnage that had again befallen it, a country with relatively little violent crime. In 2002, a gunman killed 16 people before killing himself at a school in Erfurt, in eastern Germany.
Hypothesis: A teenager shot 15 people in Germany.
Premise: There is no way Marlowe could legally leave Italy, especially after an arrest warrant has been issued for him by the authorities. Assisted by Zaleshoff, he succeeds in making his escape from Milan.
Hypothesis: Marlowe supported Zaleshoff.
Premise: Bosnia's leading Muslim daily Dnevni Avaz writes excitedly about "a sensational discovery" of "the first European pyramid" in the central town of Visoko, just north of Sarajevo.
Hypothesis: Europe's first pyramid has been discovered near Sarajevo.
Premise: Warheads believed to contain the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin that were found by Polish troops in Iraq date back to Saddam Hussein's war with Iran in the 1980s, authorities said Friday.
Hypothesis: Polish troops confiscated Warheads
Premise: A U.S. soldier accused of participating in the rape of an Iraqi girl and then killing her and her family was sentenced to 90 years in jail on Thursday, media reports said.
Hypothesis: A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 90 years in jail.
Premise: Long-distance telephone company MCI Inc., on Friday, touted its $6.75 billion deal to be bought by Verizon Communications Inc., but said it would thoroughly analyze a revised $8 billion bid by Qwest Communications International Inc.
Hypothesis: MCI made no mention of its planned $6.7 billion agreement to be acquired by Verizon Communications in its release, Friday.
Premise: The county Board of Supervisors accepted more than $700,000 in state grants Tuesday to extend a program that provides the controversial drug azidothymidine -- AZT -- to low-income residents with AIDS or AIDS-related illnesses.
Hypothesis: AZT is an AIDS treatment.
Premise: Despite this, even the most enthusiastic surgeons say it is likely to be several years before they would consider leaving a robot to operate on its own.
Hypothesis: Robots are used to assist in a range of surgical procedures.
Premise: In June the Supreme Court ruled that anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
Hypothesis: U.S. Supreme Court in favor of same-sex marriage
Premise: NRDC states its mission as follows: The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants, animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
Hypothesis: The Natural Resources Defense Council safeguards the Earth.
Premise: In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.
Hypothesis: Slovenia has 5.5 million inhabitants.
Premise: North Korea states intention to restart reactors, throws out IAEA inspectors and takes down inspection cameras, announces immediate withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and makes threats of war if the UN or the United States imposes sanctions.
Hypothesis: North Korea has announced its withdrawal from liaison meetings with United States military officers.
Premise: While local cab drivers had compliments, not everyone appreciated the company. The Chicago Cubs decided to cancel their booking after hearing about the con, and J.J. Hardy of the Milwaukee Brewers reported being kept up by fans on Wednesday night. The Brewers lost their game the following day. The convention closed with next year's date ―June 26-29 ―along with the announcement of a guest: Disney animator Floyd Norman. The event's theme will be "It's a Jungle Out There!".
Hypothesis: J.J. Hardy has a contract with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Premise: The Bolivian President, Evo Morales, 49, has claimed victory after voters ratified a new leftist constitution, granting more power to the country's indigenous majority.  "The indigenous farmers, the most marginalized sector throughout the history of the republic, are now recognized as people with the same rights as any citizen. Here begins the new Bolivia. Here we begin to reach true equality," Morales told a crowd in front of the flag-draped balcony of Palacio Quemado in La Paz, the administrative capital of Bolivia.  Ratified with about 60 percent support in a referendum on Sunday based on exit polls, the new constitution lets Morales run for re-election later this year and grants him tighter control over the economy. An official vote count of some 3.8 million registered voters who cast their ballots will be announced February 4.
Hypothesis: Evo Morales' residence is Palacio Quemado in La Paz.
Premise: At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Didrikson won gold medals in the javelin (Olympic record) and 80-meter hurdles (world record), along with a silver in the high jump (share of the world record).
Hypothesis: 2,45 m is the world record in the high jump.
Premise: Anita Page, an MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies, has died at the age of 98. Page died in her sleep early Saturday morning at her home in Los Angeles, said actor Randal Malone, her longtime friend. Page was born Anita Pomeres on August 4, 1910 in Flushing, New York. She was the leading lady to Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable (among others), and during the early 1930s was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses, as well as being romantically involved with Gable. At the height of her popularity, she was receiving more fan mail than any other female star, with the exception of Greta Garbo, and received multiple marriage proposals from Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini in the mail.
Hypothesis: Clark Gable dated Anita Page.
Premise: Arizona offers better mental-health care than most other states but still struggles to deliver services to people who are suffering, according to a national report card released Wednesday. The National Alliance on Mental Illness graded Arizona a C, marking a modest improvement over the D grade the state received three years ago, the last time the study was conducted. Arizona was one of 18 states to get a C. The national average was a D. Six states received a B; none received an A.
Hypothesis: Arizona and 17 other states received a C in the field of mental-care health.
Premise: Fernandez, of FEMA, was on scene when Martin arrived at a FEMA base camp before going to the hospital.
Hypothesis: Fernandez works for FEMA.
Premise: The Irish Sales, Services and Marketing Operation of Microsoft was established in 1991.
Hypothesis: Microsoft was established in 1991.
Premise: Oil prices edged up today as Norwegian employers said they would respond to a strike by locking out all workers next week, threatening to shut off almost all oil and gas output.
Hypothesis: Workers strike in response to Norwegian employers' threats.
Premise: Six people were killed and 10 injured on Tuesday in a gun battle between rival militiamen in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, witnesses and clan elders said.
Hypothesis: Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
Premise: The Arabic Language is the door to Islam and the Language of the holy Quran and Prophetic traditions. Therefore, distancing ourselves from Arabic studies leads to innovation and disbelief.
Hypothesis: Arabic is the language of the Quran.
Premise: Most of the life of Petko Kiryakov was not unveiled by historians but by the prominent Bulgarian writer Nikolai Haitov, who wrote a novel and a script which was turned into a TV series, which became a favourite of most Bulgarians.
Hypothesis: Nikolai Haitov is a historian.
Premise: Scientists have made two major discoveries in the search for other Earth-like planets. British astronomers say they have discovered the smallest known Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a living star called Gliese 581 e and also discovered that a nearby planet called Gliese 581 d, discovered in 2007, is in the much sought after 'habitable zone'. Astronomers also believe there is a possibility that 581 d could have liquid oceans on its surface, calling the find "extraordinary."  "The Holy Grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone'," said astrophysicist at Switzerland's Geneva University, Michel Mayor.  Astronomers say 581 e is 20.5 light years away from Earth and that it's roughly 1.9 times larger than Earth, making it the smallest exoplanet discovered to date. It was found using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS).
Hypothesis: Michel Mayor is the discoverer of the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher.
Premise: Northwest Strikes: If Northwest flight attendants go on strike on the 15th, what does that mean for travelers? I have a trip booked on the 24th. Will NW rebook us with other airlines?
Hypothesis: Italian flight assistants go on strike.
Premise: On any given day, Ms Lupse is on camera for between one and five hours, presenting a number of different call-in shows on several different networks: not only National TV but also Prima TV and Antena 1, all broadcast from the same studio. Despite the repetition, she doesn't get bored. "For me it's always exciting. I enjoy it very much! If I'm tired at the end of the show it means I've done a good show. But I'm never tired during the show." When I play a clip of one of her energetic show presentations - not the one she's become best known for - she elaborates on her exuberance. "I'm always excited when I'm about to give big prizes! There is no show without winners!".
Hypothesis: Ms Lupse works for Prima TV.
Premise: It will be the most German of combinations: nudity and beach towels. After decades of sunbathing and camping in the buff, the legions of Teutonic naturists are about to get their very own holiday heaven — a completely clothing-free hotel. The Hotel Rosengarten, in the aptly named Black Forest town of Freudenstadt ("Town of Joys"), will mark a new frontier for the homeland of Freikörperkultur (FKK), meaning "free body culture". A handful of German hotels have accommodated naturists up to now, but the management at Rosengarten plan to take a hardline anti-apparel stance.
Hypothesis: Hotel Rosengarten is a completely clothing-free hotel.
Premise: Amid rumors that China's 90-year-old senior leader, Deng Xiaoping, is near death, the visit also comes at a propitious moment to establish relationships with top officials, both military and civilian, who are likely to play a role in the post-Deng succession period as China struggles to find a new leader.
Hypothesis: Deng Xiaoping is 90 years old.
Premise: Intel has decided to push back the launch date for its 4-GHz Pentium 4 desktop processor to the first quarter of 2005.
Hypothesis: Intel would raise the clock speed of the company's flagship Pentium 4 processor to 4 GHz.
Premise: President Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's controversial ruler, has reached his 85th birthday. To mark the occasion, the BBC's African Perspective programme asked his former friends, employees and interviewers to recall their most memorable encounters with "Uncle Bob", as he is known in Zimbabwe. WILF MBANGA, EDITOR, THE ZIMBABWEAN I remember very well how I first met Robert Mugabe. In 1974, I did a series of profiles of nationalist leaders who had come out of jail.  We had not had pictures or heard of them for years.
Hypothesis: Uncle Bob is Robert Mugabe.
Premise: Five years later, Rennyo returned to the Kyoto area, establishing new Honganji branch temples. During this time, he established a new form of liturgy (gongyo), incorporating elements that would eventually become the core of Honganji Shinshu Buddhism.
Hypothesis: Rennyo founded Honganji Shinshu Buddhism.
Premise: Historians estimate that 800,000 Chechens were stuffed into rail cars and deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and 240,000 of them died en route.
Hypothesis: Stalin deported 800,000 Chechens.
Premise: This taught postgraduate masters degree programme will provide specialised training at a postgraduate level in the methods and uses of remote sensing applied to the ocean.
Hypothesis: Ocean remote sensing is applied.
Premise: Mr Roughan claims that children from the age of nine and up are drinking late at night. "You don't know what the hell's going to happen." Mr Nant has apologised to the affected, inconvenienced residents. New Zealand Post state they are going to continue to monitor the situation, however and also have on-going discussion with the local council and police "to make sure we're abreast of any developments in the area." The gang violence/activity New Zealand Post are referring to is, on the previous Thursday the Armed Offenders Squad was called out where they raided three homes following a shooting, eight people were arrested, and a large number of firearms were seized. Despite post not being delivered, newspapers were still being delivered, waste collection was still happening, and electricity meter readers were also going around house to house, checking the meters.
Hypothesis: Mr. Roughan is a member of the Armed Offenders Squad.
Premise: Nevertheless, increased longevity and falling birth rates are major factors making many state pension systems across Europe unsustainable in their present form. Some member states have already introduced major reforms (e.g. Germany, France and Austria) others have continued to adapt their existing systems.
Hypothesis: National pension systems currently adopted in Europe are in difficulties.
Premise: Meteorological observations suggest Claudette remained a tropical storm as she affected parts of west Texas.
Hypothesis: A tropical storm has caused significant property damage.
Premise: The Southeast Asian ministers gather in Laos for their regional meeting.
Hypothesis: Southeast Asian ministers' meeting is held in Laos.
Premise: New Delhi: More than 100 Nobel prize winners, two US congressmen, and leading labour organizations have expressed concern over threats against the life of Kailash Satyarthi, India's leading opponent of child labour.
Hypothesis: Kailash Satyarthi, India's leading opponent of child labour.
Premise: Mahbob Amiri, head of Afghanistan's quick-reaction force, said Monday's bomb in the capital detonated as a United Nations vehicle drove past.
Hypothesis: The United Nations produces vehicles.
Premise: In an address to the IAEA board of governors in Vienna, Hans Blix said a technical team that visited North Korea last month found that "facilities subject to the freeze were not in operation and that construction work had stopped."
Hypothesis: Hans Blix is the director general of IAEA.
Premise: A total of 79 per cent of people questioned in a survey agreed that adults suffering incurable illness should receive 'medical help to a peaceful death'.
Hypothesis: In a poll of the American public, most people approved laws that allow life-support to be removed from a terminally ill patient.
Premise: Draft experts say as many as eight U.S. high school prospects could be taken in the first round of the two-round draft, as well as up to eight international players.
Hypothesis: Draft experts draft eight international players.
Premise: The report faults intelligence agencies for a "lack of imagination" in not anticipating that al Qaeda could attack the United States using hijacked aircraft.
Hypothesis: The report blames intelligence agencies.
Premise: This was, after all, Chuck Yeager, a guy with all the right stuff, the biggest top gun of them all, whose post-World War II exploits in the topsy-turvy world of supersonic air travel helped pave the way for space exploration.
Hypothesis: Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947.
Premise: The European-born groups with the highest labor force participation rates were  from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hypothesis: The European country with the highest birth rate is Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Premise: Ecevit, one of the most senior Turkish politicians, was unable to secure the necessary support from the parties represented in the Parliament in order to form his government.
Hypothesis: Ecevit was unable to form the government due to a lack of support.
Premise: The Sudanese government reiterated on Saturday that it would not retreat from its decision to expel more than a dozen of international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating relief work in its western region of Darfur. Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha made the remarks at the opening session of the conference of Arab civil society institutions. "The government's decision to expel some of the organizations is a sovereign decision which was dictated by the national interest. We will not back down from this decision whatever the pressures," Taha said.
Hypothesis: Mohammed Taha works for an NGO.
Premise: Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the record for the longest continuous amount of time spent in space, a staggering 438 days, between 1994 and 1995. He orbited the Earth 7000 times, witnessing 7000 sunrises and 7000 sunsets.
Hypothesis: 7000 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.
Premise: Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota on Dec. 8, 1980.
Hypothesis: Mark David Chapman killed Lennon.
Premise: These problems can be avoided by legalization, under which cannabis could be legally sold, taxed and regulated like alcohol or tobacco.
Hypothesis: Drug legalization has benefits.
Premise: The introduction of the euro has dismantled barriers to cross-border trading and enhanced risk sharing and opportunities for diversification.
Hypothesis: The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Premise: Coronado High School English teacher Lori Rosales has read the Harry Potter books and sees them as educational and something that children can relate to because the stories are timeless.
Hypothesis: Teacher wins right to market Harry Potter.
Premise: English has been written using the Latin alphabet since around the ninth century. (Before that, Old English had been written using the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc.) The spelling system or orthography of English is historical, not phonological.
Hypothesis: A spelling reform was approved in all German speaking countries.
Premise: The city's motto is Contemnit procellas, which means, "It defies the storms."
Hypothesis: The city's motto is, appropriately, "Contemnit procellas" ( "It defies the storms").
Premise: Though fearful of a forthcoming performance evaluation by her boss, Zoe must unravel the life of a man just found dead of a heart attack, who was supposed to have died three years earlier in a boating accident.
Hypothesis: Zoe died in a boating accident.
Premise: The Metropolitan Museum of Art said Thursday that it would lay off more than a quarter of its merchandising staff, eliminating 74 jobs in addition to 53 already cut over the last year. It also warned that the worsening economy would most likely force it to shrink its overall work force by 10 percent ―as many as 250 full- and part-time jobs in all ―before the summer, including some in curatorial and other pivotal departments.
Hypothesis: The Metropolitan Museum has 250 employees.
Premise: Jurassic Park is a novel written by Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park was published in 1990.
Hypothesis: Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.
Premise: After the service, Lennon left the cathedral, made his way through a crush of reporters and television cameras and talked briefly with protesters, some of whom say they are victims of abusive priests.
Hypothesis: After the service, Lennon attempted to speak to victims and protesters.
Premise: September 26 - Trial against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, accused of Mafia connections, begins.
Hypothesis: Andreotti collaborates with the Mafia.
Premise: In 2005 Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France being considered the best rider that have ever competed in this contest. In 2008, after three years of retirement, he announced that he wants to compete the 2009 Tour de France. But unfortunately he was hospitalized today after crashing during a race in Spain in the first stage of a five-day race. The accident took place 12,5 miles from the stage's finish in La Vuelta de Castilla y Leon. It seems that Armstrong has injured his collarbone and was in such pain that he needed to go to Rio Carrion hospital in Palencia.
Hypothesis: Lance Armstrong is a French rider.
Premise: Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia - The Sunshine Coast Regional Council has formally ratified the rejection of the 24 hour McDonald's in Minyama. The decision comes after council rejected the proposal earlier this week at a general committee meeting. McDonald's forwarded an 11th hour compromise to deputy mayor Tim Dwyer in order to overturn the decision. The compromised had included reducing the opening hours to 6am to 10pm Sunday to Thursday and until 12am Friday and Saturday.
Hypothesis: Sunshine Coast Regional Council accepted McDonald's Australia development plans.
Premise: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Hypothesis: Soyuz spacecraft were built by Russia.
Premise: The International Atomic Energy Agency report detailing the discovery also faulted Tehran for not cooperating with the U.N. watchdog's attempts to investigate other suspicious aspects of Iran s nuclear program.
Hypothesis: Tehran did not cooperate with the U.N. watchdog's attempts to investigate suspicious aspects of Iran's nuclear program.
Premise: Zhang and his co-workers performed behavioral tests on two purified cannabinoids. The test results indicated that these two cannabinoids have anti-anxiety and antidepression-like effects in rats that may depend on the ability of cannabinoids to promote the production of new neurons in the hippocampus. Marijuana contains a complex mixture of chemicals including cannabinoids and may have somewhat different behavioral effects than the purified cannabinoids tested so far.
Hypothesis: The use of drugs can help control anxiety.
Premise: Local health department officials were quoted as saying that the bridge over the Santa Barbara river, in southern Peru's Ayacucho province, "broke in two" as students and teachers from four rural schools were crossing it while going home. Fernando Valencia, a surgeon with a local hospital confirmed in reports that the death toll had risen to nine. The accident also injured 53 others, most of whom were children between the ages of 10 and 13, Valencia said. Fourteen of the victims were in critical condition. Local police said the 120-meter bridge, made of wooden boards and slats held together by steel cables, collapsed because too many people were on it.
Hypothesis: The Peruvian bridge in Ayachuco province broke because of the weight on it.
Premise: The longest mission to Salyut 7 was also a record-breaker, lasting 237 days (nearly eight months) in space.
Hypothesis: 237 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human.
Premise: Buffalo, New York - The Common Council of Buffalo voted on Tuesday to send the Elmwood Village Hotel proposal "to committee for further discussion", after citing the need for more public involvement. The Elmwood Village Hotel is a development proposal by the Savarino Construction Services Corporation, a project designed by the architect Karl Frizlen of The Frizlen Group. The hotel would be placed on the southeast corner of Elmwood and Forest Avenues in Buffalo.
Hypothesis: The Frizlen Group is situated in Buffalo.
Premise: The accident in the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 brought along great harm for many people. There were immediate damages and consequential burdens for human beings, the environment and the economy over long distances.
Hypothesis: Nuclear Power Plant of Sosnovyi Bor suffers an emergency shut down.
Premise: The bus, which was heading for Nairobi in Kenya , crashed in the Kabale district of Uganda near the Rwandan border.
Hypothesis: The Kabale district borders on Rwanda.
Premise: Priscilla Presley greeted thousands of cheering Elvis fans at a concert Friday night, marking the 25th anniversary of the King's death, telling them "you're helping Elvis make history again."
Hypothesis: Priscilla Presley told fans, "you're helping Elvis make history again."
Premise: In 1856 Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla was elected deputy, and soon attracted notice among the most advanced Progressists and Democrats. He took part in the revolutionary propaganda that led to the military movement in Madrid on June 22, 1866. He had to take refuge in France for two years, like his fellow-conspirators, and only returned to Spain when the revolution of 1868 took place.
Hypothesis: Zorrilla started the revolution of 1868.
Premise: The new Interstate 35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States was opened shortly after 5 AM today. It replaces a bridge which collapsed last year, killing 13 people. A fire engine and ambulance were first across on each side. In each direction, a line of State Highway Patrol cars was followed by a formation of Department of Transportation construction trucks. A cluster of awaiting vehicles went honking across for a few minutes, then traffic returned to the sparse levels more typical of the pre-dawn period. The September 18 opening was well ahead of the scheduled December 24 goal, earning the contractor, Flatiron-Manson, up to $19.6 million in performance bonuses. The bridge is 189 feet wide, with a main span length of 504 feet and a deck height of over 100 feet above the Mississippi River.
Hypothesis: Interstate 35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge crosses the Mississippi River.
Premise: Capital punishment has a deterrent effect.
Hypothesis: Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Premise: Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband, John Lennon, to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport.
Hypothesis: Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
Premise: President Bill Clinton on Tuesday passed the leadership of the Democratic Party to Vice President Al Gore, describing his deputy as the right person to be the first U.S. President of the 21st century.
Hypothesis: Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party.
Premise: She would later return to the Contest in 2005 with "Angel," an anthem she penned herself, and achieved second place. Now, in 2009, she will be returning to Eurovision for a third try, hoping for the "3-2-1" charm and a victory ―something that has eluded her thus far. Her entry, the ballad "What If We," has special memories for Chiara; it is dedicated to her father, who is recently deceased.
Hypothesis: Ms Siracura joined the Eurovision Song Contest.
Premise: The south Indian flute had only seven finger holes till the 1970s when the legendary T.R. Mahalingam introduced the eight holed variety.
Hypothesis: T.R. Mahalingham made the first seven holed flute.
Premise: A bid topping $17.7 billion was jointly proffered by Time Warner Inc. and Comcast Corporation on Thursday to buy beleaguered Adelphia Communications Corporation in an industry consolidation move. Adelphia is the fifth largest cable service provider in the United States with nearly 5 million subscribers. The market-share grabbing bid trumps the previous Cablevision offer of $16.5 billion. The bid is under scrutiny by the presiding judge over the Adelphia's Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, and must also be approved by the company's creditors owed in the range of $20 million.
Hypothesis: Time Warner is based in Cingular.
Premise: U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema accepted would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui's guilty pleas on six charges of conspiracy laid against him for his plotting to participate in the Sept. 11 attacks . Moussaoui, who had to be restrained at one point during the trial in an Alexandria, Virginia courthouse, was polite and quiet during the day's appearance.
Hypothesis: Moussaoui participated in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Premise: Mufti Latifullah Hakimi, the spokesman for the Taliban rebels, claimed responsibility for the blast, but said that the insurgents had planted the bomb to target the Afghan police.
Hypothesis: The Taliban is the rebels' employer.
Premise: In sub-Saharan Africa about one in every 30 people is infected with HIV.
Hypothesis: 30% of the people infected with HIV live in Africa.
Premise: Sweden has plans to open a virtual embassy in Second Life, the virtual world home to thousands of netizens. Companies like Dell are already selling computers via the virtual world, but Sweden would become the first country to have a cyber-embassy in Second Life. The embassy would not provide visa or perform diplomatic tasks, but would provide information on how and where to get these documents in the real world, as well as giving cultural and tourist information about the country. Visitors will also be able to chat with embassy personnel. A spokesperson explained that it would be an easy and cheap way to reach young people. The idea came from The Swedish Institute, an agency of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Sweden with providing information about Sweden as a key purpose. The "House of Sweden" as it will be called, will be modelled on the new Swedish embassy in Washington with the same name. The opening is expected in a few weeks. Second life has over 3 million registered accounts. On an average day, the maximum of people logged in at the same time peaks at 25,000. In September 2006, Second Life was reported to have a gross domestic product of $64 million. Some schools in the United States and Canada have virtual classrooms on the site. People like Ailin Graef a.k.a. Anshe Chung have developed virtual businesses in Second Life, and earn thousands of real dollars there.
Hypothesis: Dell is a Swedish company.
Premise: About one million years ago, these people began to slowly leave Africa.
Hypothesis: Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Premise: Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, owner of Juventus, was quoted by Italian newspapers as saying that when Baggio came off the field after the Mexico game, "He looked like a wet rabbit."
Hypothesis: Giovanni Agnelli is the president of Fiat.
Premise: If you have rheumatic heart disease, high blood pressure, or diabetes, or take digitalis drugs, vitamin E can be harmful.
Hypothesis: Vitamin E can prevent heart disease.
Premise: Even while accepting the Russian plan, IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus noted that the efficiency of Russia's State Taxation Service "is declining rapidly."
Hypothesis: Michel Camdessus is managing director of IMF.
Premise: After years of study, the Vatican's doctrinal congregation has sent church leaders a confidential document concluding that "sex-change" procedures do not change a person's gender in the eyes of the church.
Hypothesis: Sex-change operations become more common.
Premise: A Muslim charity in the Philippines that was supported by bin Laden and run by a brother-in-law, Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, financed Shah and the other plotters.
Hypothesis: Mohammad Khalifa's father-in-law is Osama Bin Laden.
Premise: Iraq would have been an unsafe, unsecure country that did pose a threat to the world.
Hypothesis: Iraq would have constituted a threat to the world.
Premise: Analysts expected the company to earn $1.42 a share on revenue of $3.82 billion, according to a Thomson Financial survey.
Hypothesis: Analysts had expected revenue of $3.8 billion, according to Reuters estimates.
Premise: Helena Brighton, an attorney for Eliza May who served as executive director of the Texas Funeral Services Commission -the state agency that regulates the funeral business- claimed that she was fired from her state job because she raised questions about SCI.
Hypothesis: Eliza May hired Helena Brighton.
Premise: American Airlines began laying off hundreds of flight attendants on Tuesday, after a federal judge turned aside a union's bid to block the job losses.
Hypothesis: American Airlines will recall hundreds of flight attendants.
Premise: Black Tigers are selected for their discipline and their loyalty to Vilupillai Prabhakaran, 41, the elusive leader of the LTTE.
Hypothesis: Vilupillai Prabhakaran is the elusive leader of the LTTE.
Premise: Researchers are aware that chimps have used similar methods in the past, but it was not fully known if the tools they used were designed specifically for the task of gathering the insects. Of all the tools the chimps left behind and Sanz's team recovered, 80% were custom made by their owners. Sanz says the new study has determined that their methods have since evolved, proving previous hypotheses.
Hypothesis: Chimps design tools to catch termites.
Premise: He also referred to the "illegal" arrest on 31 May of Mexican Professor Maria Eugenia Ochoa Garcia, whom the Salvadoran government accused of having connections with the Salvadoran guerrillas.
Hypothesis: Maria Eugenia Ochoa Garcia was arrested in May.
Premise: Paul Hester, drummer for the popular 1980s band "Crowded House", was found dead in a Melbourne park Saturday. An ambulance service spokeswoman told the Sydney Morning Herald that ambulance officers arrived at Elsternwick Park on Saturday afternoon. They reported Hester had "attempted suicide" and suffered "strangulation". The 46-year-old-father-of-two was last seen walking his two dogs in the popular suburban park near his home on Friday evening. Hester had a history with bouts of depression, but seemed to be coping well following eight years of therapy. Friends told the The Daily Telegraph, however, that he suffered a recent turmoil in his love life. Firstly, there was the end of his romance with long-time partner and mother of his two daughters, and then a parting last December with New Zealand singer Kashan, whom he planned to wed in May.
Hypothesis: Kashan dated Paul Hester.
Premise: The current Prime Minister Stephen Harper supported Mulroney's right to comment on Trudeau, "I think it's well known Mr. Mulroney was an opponent of Mr. Trudeau," Harper said. "He was his opposition leader and, as you know, came to power at the end of the Trudeau period when people wanted to make a change. I'll leave it to people who were there then to fight those battles. I think it's perfectly reasonable that they would comment. I think these are debates that are best left to some of the people who were around then and academics." Trudeau's former piers and friends have rallied behind his legacy and made public comments to dampen Mulroney's accusations.
Hypothesis: Mr Mulroney was an ally of Mr Trudeau.