Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: No Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq Yet.
Hypothesis: Weapons of Mass Destruction Found in Iraq.
Premise: A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.
Hypothesis: Pope Benedict XVI is the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Premise: Herceptin was already approved to treat the sickest breast cancer patients, and the company said, Monday, it will discuss with federal regulators the possibility of prescribing the drug for more breast cancer patients.
Hypothesis: Herceptin can be used to treat breast cancer.
Premise: Judie Vivian, chief executive at ProMedica, a medical service company that helps sustain the 2-year-old Vietnam Heart Institute in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), said that so far about 1,500 children have received treatment.
Hypothesis: The previous name of Ho Chi Minh City was Saigon.
Premise: A man is due in court later charged with the murder 26 years ago of a teenager whose case was the first to be featured on BBC One's Crimewatch. Colette Aram, 16, was walking to her boyfriend's house in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, on 30 October 1983 when she disappeared. Her body was later found in a field close to her home. Paul Stewart Hutchinson, 50, has been charged with murder and is due before Nottingham magistrates later.
Hypothesis: Paul Stewart Hutchinson is accused of having stabbed a girl.
Premise: Britain said, Friday, that it has barred cleric, Omar Bakri, from returning to the country from Lebanon, where he was released by police after being detained for 24 hours.
Hypothesis: Bakri was briefly detained, but was released.
Premise: Nearly 4 million children who have at least one parent who entered the U.S. illegally were born in the United States and are U.S. citizens as a result, according to the study conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center. That's about three quarters of the estimated 5.5 million children of illegal immigrants inside the United States, according to the study. About 1.8 million children of undocumented immigrants live in poverty, the study found.
Hypothesis: Three quarters of U.S. illegal immigrants have children.
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 had Prime Minister Robert Malval  murdered in Port-au-Prince.
Premise: WASHINGTON --  A newly declassified narrative of the Bush administration's advice to the CIA on harsh interrogations shows that the small group of Justice Department lawyers who wrote memos authorizing controversial interrogation techniques were operating not on their own but with direction from top administration officials, including then-Vice President Dick Cheney and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. At the same time, the narrative suggests that then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-Secretary of State Colin Powell were largely left out of the decision-making process.
Hypothesis: Dick Cheney was the Vice President of Bush.
Premise: Only a week after it had no comment on upping the storage capacity of its Hotmail e-mail service, Microsoft early Thursday announced it was boosting the allowance to 250MB to follow similar moves by rivals such as Google, Yahoo, and Lycos.
Hypothesis: Microsoft's Hotmail has raised its storage capacity to 250MB.
Premise: Lina Joy, 42, was born Azlina Jailani to Malay parents, and was raised as a Muslim. Malaysia's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but by law, all ethnic Malays are Muslim. Joy converted to Christianity at age 26, and after some bureaucratic difficulties had her named legally changed in 1999. However, on her MyKad national ID, the National Registration Department retained her stated religion as Islam. In order to have her religion changed, the National Registration Department said Joy would have to obtain a certificate of apostasy from the Muslim Sharia Court.
Hypothesis: Lina Joy's parents are from Malaysia.
Premise: November 9, 1989 , the day the Berlin Wall fell and the world changed forever . Not even the most astute saw it coming . As Hungary's foreign minister in the late summer of 1989 , Gyula Horn gave the order to let visiting East Germans use his country to do a 400-mile end run around the Berlin Wall , a move now seen as the beginning of the end for hard-line communism in Europe .
Hypothesis: The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.
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. produces 250,000 barrels per day.
Premise: Oil prices fall back as Yukos oil threat lifted
Hypothesis: Oil prices rise.
Premise: Brian Brohm, the Louisville quarterback, threw for 368 yards and five touchdowns as the Cardinals beat visiting Oregon State 63-27.
Hypothesis: The quarterback threw for 413 yards and three touchdowns, and then ran to the end zone two more times.
Premise: Greg Page, a former heavyweight boxing champion who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2001 fight, has died at 50. His wife Patricia said the one-time WBA champion had died at his home in Kentucky, USA, of complications related to injuries he suffered in the fight. Page was in a coma for a week after the 9 March 2001 fight against Dale Crowe which was stopped in the 10th round. Patricia Page said he was "in a better place now" after announcing on Monday he had died overnight in his sleep.
Hypothesis: Greg Page was a WBA champion.
Premise: Sierra is likely to remain in jail at the Hillsborough County jail in her native Tampa until her next hearing on December 20, where she is being held without bail, which would prevent her attending the Washington event on Friday even if she still had permission to perform. Sierra has been in jail since the start of the month after an altercation with police officers outside a Tampa nightclub, which she had been ejected from. She is charged with disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest.
Hypothesis: Sierra once reached the finals of "American Idol".
Premise: Since 1987, however, Brazil has taken steps to dramatically reduce the destruction, including stepped-up enforcement and the elimination of tax incentives that led to large-scale land clearing.
Hypothesis: In the early 1990s Brazil began to take action to save the rainforest.
Premise: FIFA has received 11 bids to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup tournaments, an international football competition contested by the men's national teams. The countries vying to host the tournament are Australia, England, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Qatar, Russia, South Korea and United States, who have individual bids and the joint bids are from Belgium-Netherlands and Spain-Portugal.  Select bids are for 2018 and 2022 tournaments and two bids are just for the 2022 tournament. Qatar and South Korea are vying just for the 2022 tournament. The two winning bids will be chosen on December 2010 by the 24-man executive committee of FIFA.  Said FIFA president Sepp Blatter: "We are very pleased about the fantastic level of interest in our flagship competition, with all initial bidders confirming their candidature."
Hypothesis: Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA.
Premise: U.S. crude settled $1.32 lower at $42.83 a barrel.
Hypothesis: Crude the light American lowered to the closing 1.32 dollars, to 42.83 dollars the barrel.
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: In 2002 near Stuttgart a boy shot 16 people.
Premise: Many hopes are riding on the sale of Talisman's holdings in Palm Beach and Hendry counties, which Vice President Al Gore announced with much fanfare last year at the 50th anniversary of Everglades National Park.
Hypothesis: Everglades National Park is located in Florida.
Premise: Rabies virus infects the central nervous system, causing encephalopathy and ultimately death. Early symptoms of rabies in humans are nonspecific, consisting of fever, headache, and general malaise.
Hypothesis: Rabies is fatal in humans.
Premise: American tobacco companies were showing a profit most quarters due to export sales of cigarettes and diversification of products sold including food.
Hypothesis: PM often entered markets with both cigarettes and food.
Premise: The development of agriculture by early humans, roughly 10,000 years ago, was also harmful to many natural ecosystems as they were systematically destroyed and replaced with artificial versions.
Hypothesis: Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
Premise: The two young leaders of the coup, Pibul Songgram and Pridi Phanomyang, both educated in Europe and influenced by Western ideas, came to dominate Thai politics in the ensuing years.
Hypothesis: Pibul was a young leader.
Premise: Lin Piao, after all, was the creator of Mao's "Little Red Book" of quotations.
Hypothesis: Lin Piao wrote the "Little Red Book".
Premise: When patients interrupt a course of antibiotics, the surviving bacteria return with a vengeance, often having rapidly mutated to resist the therapy.
Hypothesis: Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Premise: Initially the Bundesbank opposed the introduction of the euro but was compelled to accept it in light of the political pressure of the capitalist politicians who supported its introduction.
Hypothesis: The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
Premise: The Armed Forces Press Committee (COPREFA) admitted that the government troops sustained 11 casualties in these clashes, adding that they inflicted three casualties on the rebels.
Hypothesis: Three rebels were killed by government troops.
Premise: One economic study will not be the basis of Canada's public policy decisions, but Easton's research does conclusively show that there are economic benefits in the legalization of marijuana.
Hypothesis: Drug legalization has benefits.
Premise: Archaeologists have found approximately 30 beautifully preserved mummies in a 4,000 year old Egyptian necropolis which held 53 tombs. Supervisor of Antiquities for Middle Egypt Dr. Abdel-Rahman El-Ayedi's team established his archaeological site in the Faiyum Oasis near the El-Lahun Egyptian pyramid which is just south of Cairo. Besides the mummies, the team found masks, amulets, clay pots and an offering table located in a funerary chapel. The chapel dates back to about 30 BC to 337 AD.
Hypothesis: 30 beautifully preserved mummies have been located in the south of Cairo.
Premise: Gastrointestinal bleeding can happen as an adverse effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin or ibuprofen.
Hypothesis: Aspirin prevents gastrointestinal bleeding.
Premise: A former employee of the company, David Vance of South Portland, said Hooper spent a lot of time on the road, often meeting with customers between Portland and Kittery.
Hypothesis: Hooper is a citizen of Portland.
Premise: Cyprus, divided or not, joins the EU on the 1st of May.
Hypothesis: Cyprus was divided into two parts on May 1.
Premise: World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will  bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Hypothesis: North Korea says it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and is building more.
Premise: In addition to establishing the electoral commission, the laws also concern nationality, a contentious issue since citizenship laws were tightened to exclude one of Gbagbo's main competitors from the 2000 presidential race, former prime minister Alassane Ouattara.
Hypothesis: Gbagbo is a competitor of Ouattara.
Premise: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948.
Hypothesis: Mohandas received the Nobel Prize in 1989.
Premise: The Christian Democrats (CDU) won 35.2% of the vote, or 225 seats, against 34.3% for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD).
Hypothesis: It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: Edward VIII became King in January of 1936 and abdicated in December.
Hypothesis: King Edward VIII abdicated in December 1936.
Premise: Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks has won British citizenship, opening the door for a possible bid to have him freed from the US detention facility in Cuba. Justice Lawrence Collins of the British High Court has overturned the British Government's refusal of citizenship to Hicks, whose mother was born in England. Justice Collins said the Government had "no power to withhold or deprive citizenship". Justice Collins said: "In my view it would be improper to fail to give assistance which otherwise would have been given, simply because the claimant was believed to be involved in terrorism and has not had any previous connection with this country." Hicks' lawyer, Stephen Grosz, said the decision was a breakthrough. He said there was now no reason why Hicks should not enjoy the same protection as the nine other British citizens released without charge from Guantanamo Bay on representations of the British Government.
Hypothesis: Stephen Grosz is the British lawyer of David Hicks.
Premise: Rockweed has been harvested commercially in Nova Scotia since the late 1950's and is currently the most important commercial seaweed in Atlantic Canada.
Hypothesis: Marine vegetation is  harvested.
Premise: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has ordered security forces to take firm action against rioters following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. The violence has left at least 44 people dead and dozens injured. Mr. Musharraf insisted the measures were to protect people. VOA's Ayaz Gul reports from Islamabad that a bitter dispute has also erupted over how the 54-year-old politician died and who was behind her assassination.
Hypothesis: Musharraf has ordered rioters to take firm action against security forces.
Premise: A month after Gov. David A. Paterson dropped his proposal for a soda tax, New York City's health commissioner has written an article advocating "hefty" taxes on sodas and sports drinks containing sugar. Such a tax, the article said, could be the biggest boon to public health since tobacco taxes. The commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, and Kelly D. Brownell of Yale University, his co-author, argue in the New England Journal of Medicine that a tax of a penny per ounce could reduce consumption by more than 10 percent and raise $1.2 billion a year in New York State alone.
Hypothesis: Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York.
Premise: Officials said the Finnish suspect was among the dead but did not provide a motive for the attack.
Hypothesis: Officials said that the suspect, a Finnish citizen, was among the dead.
Premise: Britain agreed to lift by March 31 a 150-mile military protection zone enforced around the islands since Argentina invaded them in 1982.
Hypothesis: The military protection zone around Falklands was lifted.
Premise: The ferry owner PT Nur Budi's spokesman blamed Indonesian port authorities for the tragedy. "The passenger capacity of the ferry is 205 people but the port administrator accepted more passengers as they thought it was possible," he said. The National Meteorological and Geophysics Agency, however, had published and raised an alert signal about high waves on Friday. It specifically stated that "Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th, Indonesian waters would have witnessed storm force waves," but despite the dire warnings KM Teratai set for the seas.
Hypothesis: An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank.
Premise: Tension and battles between Greek police and anarchist demonstrators took place in the centre of Athens, Greece, during the anti-war demonstration of the 4th European Social Forum which is taking place in the Greek capital, from 4 to 7 of May 2006. The march of the approximately 1,000 anarchists ended with clashes between groups of anarchists and police. Riot police used tear gas, while a branch of a Greek bank, a fast-food store and around 50 shop windows in central Athens were damaged.
Hypothesis: The riots in Greece started on December 6.
Premise: Libya's case against Britain and the US concerns the dispute over their demand for extradition of Libyans charged with blowing up a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in 1988.
Hypothesis: One case involved the extradition of Libyan suspects in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing.
Premise: Argentina sought help from Britain on its privatization program and encouraged British investment.
Hypothesis: Argentina sought UK expertise on privatization and agriculture.
Premise: Instead of action on crime, we got the federal long gun registry, which became a bloated bureaucratic nightmare to responsible hunters, farmers and rural Canadians. It cost taxpayers some CA$2 billion and it hasn't done a thing to reduce gun crime. said Harper. The Conservatives have provided amnesty for unregistered gun owners. At this time there is no legislation set before the House of Commons. Conservative Garry Breitkreuz from Saskatchewan tabled the bill killing the long-gun registry.
Hypothesis: Garry Breitkreuz is a member of the Conservative Party.
Premise: The researchers in the latest study fed one group of mice a diet in which 60 percent of calories came from fat. The diet started when the mice, all males, were 1 year old, which is middle-age in mouse longevity. As expected, the mice soon developed signs of impending diabetes, with grossly enlarged livers, and started to die much sooner than mice fed a standard diet.
Hypothesis: At the age of one year, male mice were fed with a diet in which 60 percent of calories came from fat.
Premise: The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.
Hypothesis: The soldiers were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols.
Premise: The United States would like to see U.N. weapons inspectors return to Iraq providing the Iraqis take concrete, affirmative and demonstrable actions "to show full co-operation" Clinton said.
Hypothesis: U.N. weapons inspectors could stay in Iraq, Clinton said.
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: A patrol car was attacked by the San Carlos Battalion.
Premise: Bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to Rodriguez's Mulberry St. apartment.
Hypothesis: Bomb-sniffing dogs were estimated at Rodriguez's Mulberry St. apartment.
Premise: Startling new research into mobile phones claims they may reduce a man's sperm count by up to 30%.
Hypothesis: Male fertility may be affected by use of a mobile phones.
Premise: Workers at the Lufthansa Technik Automotive plant in Co Dublin are due to vote today on changes to work practices being sought by the company's management. The aircraft engine maintenace firm has warned that rejection of the proposals would threaten a planned €17230m investment in the Rathcoole plant and put jobs at risk. LTA says it is not seeking any lay-offs or pay cuts and the planned investment would guarantee the future of the plant for the next 15 years. The work-practice changes are being sought following the collapse of Labour Relations Commission talks on the matter.
Hypothesis: Lufthansa Technik Automotive fires 30 workers.
Premise: It rewrites the rules of global trade, established by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or GATT, in 1947, and modified in multiple rounds of negotiations since then.
Hypothesis: GATT was formed in 1947.
Premise: Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday hurled an obscenity on the Senate floor to punctuate an angry exchange with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy as all senators gathered for their annual photo.
Hypothesis: Cheney cursed at Sen. Patrick Leahy.
Premise: In the May 2005 general election Michael Howard failed to unseat the Labour Government, although the Conservatives did gain 33 seats, playing the most significant role in reducing Labour's majority from 167 to 66.
Hypothesis: In the May 2005 general election Conservatives got 33 seats.
Premise: The Norwegian Newspaper Corpus is a large and self-expanding corpus of Norwegian newspaper texts. The collection of this dynamic and continually growing corpus began in 1998.
Hypothesis: Dagbladet is a Norwegian newspaper.
Premise: The Dutch, who ruled Indonesia until 1949, called the city of Jakarta Batavia.
Hypothesis: Formerly ( until 1949 ) Batavia, Jakarta is largest city and capital of Indonesia.
Premise: The name for the newest James Bond film has been announced today. The 22nd film, previously known only as "Bond 22", will be called "Quantum of Solace". EON Productions who are producing the film made the announcement today at Pinewood Studios, where production for the film has been under way since last year. The name of the film was inspired by a short story (of the same name) from For Your Eyes Only by Bond creator, Ian Fleming.
Hypothesis: James Bond was created by Ian Fleming.
Premise: The gastric bypass operation, also known as stomach stapling, has become the most common surgical procedure for treating obesity.
Hypothesis: Obesity is medically treated.
Premise: The cost of the consumer of the United States fell in June.
Hypothesis: U.S. consumer spending dived in June.
Premise: The former leader of Iraq was rushed to hospital last Sunday after refusing to eat for sixteen days. But according to news agencies, he has ended the hunger strike by eating lunch at the court in Baghdad. "Saddam ate beef and rice and cola with bread which he brought from hospital," one source told Reuters news agency. He was fasting with three co-defendants, and they were demanding more security for their defence lawyers, three of whom have been murdered.
Hypothesis: Some Australians have fasted to protest.
Premise: Sonia Gandhi can be defeated in the next elections in India by BJP.
Hypothesis: Sonia Gandhi is defeated by BJP.
Premise: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that Mahmoud Abbas is a man that Israel can do business with.
Hypothesis: Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, may be someone Israel can talk with.
Premise: The Tempe Hometown Premiere will have all the trappings of a mega-Hollywood  event including red carpet arrivals, klieg lights, screaming fans, paparazzi and  media coverage of the film`s stars headed by Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman and  including Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, will.i.am  and director Gavin Hood.  Following a hard-fought contest stretching over thousands of cities and towns  across the United States, Tempe emerged triumphant in a far-reaching, citywide  bid to nab the gala event. Mayor Hugh Hallman himself rallied the community,  which stepped up with dozens of videos that were posted on YouTube.
Hypothesis: Hugh Jackman plays the role of Wolverine in the movie.
Premise: In October, however, amid rising tensions between the government and opposition groups, a car bomb seriously injured an opposition politician and killed his driver, in Beirut.
Hypothesis: A member of the opposition was injured in a car bomb attack in Beirut.
Premise: Weinstock painstakingly reviewed dozens of studies for evidence of any link between sunscreen use and either an increase or decrease in melanoma.
Hypothesis: skin cancer numbers increase.
Premise: Most people are familiar with the idea of St. Bernards or other dogs taking part in rescue and recovery efforts. Robots might also take part in search and rescue missions.
Hypothesis: Robots are used to find missing victims.
Premise: Illinois born Charlton Heston was a 27-year-old actor from Broadway and television when he arrived in Hollywood for a five-picture contract with Hal Wallis.
Hypothesis: Charlton Heston was born in Illinois.
Premise: Ruth's 1927 single season record of 60 home runs stood unsurpassed until Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961.
Hypothesis: Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in his lifetime.
Premise: The German technology was employed to build Shanghai's existing maglev line, the first in the world to be used commercially.
Hypothesis: Maglev is commercially used.
Premise: SEATTLE — United Nations gang leader Clay Roueche should spend at least 30 years behind bars after his surprise guilty plea here Tuesday for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, marijuana and illicit drug profits, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sullivan said. Sullivan said outside court that Roueche's leadership of the violent UN gang and the sophistication of the international drug conspiracy will all be factors used to argue for a longer sentence — up to life — for the 33-year-old Canadian. And he stressed that the plea agreement reached with Roueche did not include "any kind of break with respect to sentencing.".
Hypothesis: Clay Roueche is 33 years old.
Premise: Baker's voice will replace the earlier computer-synthesized voice that was previously used. BT said that his voice was chosen as it was instantly recognisable. It took him 11 days to record 11,593 phrases and sounds which could then be broken down and reassembled by a computer to make new words. It then took five months to process these recordings to make a workable service. BT have said that there will be no barriers as to what Tom Baker's voice can 'say', including rude words. "What appeals to me most is the thought that I will be bringing good news to people whether it is a cheeky message, a birthday greeting, or just a quick hello," said Baker.
Hypothesis: Tom Baker works for BT.
Premise: The Norwegian Nobel Committee is responsible for the selection of the candidates and the choice of Prize Winners for the Peace Prize. The Committee is composed of five members appointed by the Storting (Norwegian parliament). The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway and not in Stockholm, Sweden like the other Nobel Prizes.
Hypothesis: Nobel Peace Prize candidates have been chosen.
Premise: More than 150 dolphins, marine turtles and beaked whales have been washed up dead on beaches in Africa.
Hypothesis: Dead dolphins, turtles and whales have been found on African beaches.
Premise: Endon was respected for her humble, unassuming personality. She was popularly referred to as "Kak Endon," or "Elder Sister Endon." She discovered she had cancer in 2002 after her twin sister, Noraini, was earlier diagnosed with the disease. Noraini died in 2003. Endon had a breast removed and traveled to the United States regularly for treatment. She returned to Malaysia from Los Angeles on Oct. 1 after five rounds of chemotherapy since July. Endon had been deeply involved in awareness programs for breast cancer, the main cause of illness-related fatalities for Malaysian women. She has said she refused to feel sorry for herself, and felt fortunate she could obtain the best medical treatment.
Hypothesis: Noraini had a twin sister called Endon.
Premise: The plaintiffs in this most recent suit contend that Lee, Perlmutter, Arthur Lieberman and Avi Arad conspired in bad faith to conceal and misappropriate financial interests in Lee's creations assigned to Stan Lee Media in 1998. SLM's meltdown involved its former President Peter F. Paul fleeing to Brazil, contributions made to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Paul's extradition and more. In 2007, SLM filed a $5 billion lawsuit in which it claimed co-ownership of all of Stan Lee's creations for Marvel.
Hypothesis: Hillary Clinton is Bill's sister.
Premise: Alex Da Silva, a salsa dance instructor and choreographer for Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance," was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting four of his students, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department. Da Silva, 41, is accused of assaulting the students in his two homes in the San Fernando Valley over the last six years, police said. He is being held in lieu of $3.8 million bail. Authorities said the four victims were all students of Da Silva at the time of the assaults.
Hypothesis: Alex Da Silva is a student of salsa dance.
Premise: Ruth bounced back from his 1925 ailments and problems to lead the American League in home runs with 47, 28 home runs more than anyone else.
Hypothesis: Ruth hit 47 runs in his lifetime.
Premise: On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California.
Hypothesis: Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California.
Premise: Patricia Amy Messier and Eugene W. Weaver were married May 28 at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church in North Palm Beach.
Hypothesis: Eugene W. Weaver is the husband of Patricia Amy.
Premise: On April 28 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot and hanged in a spectacle that was photographed repeatedly.
Hypothesis: Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci.
Premise: Twelve of Jupiter's moons are relatively small and seem to have been more likely captured than to have been formed in orbit around Jupiter.
Hypothesis: Jupiter has Twelve moons.
Premise: Zapatero visited the following cities in four days: Brasilia, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile. According to official sources these visits are the last part of the project he began at the EU-Latin American Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico and pursued in the Ibero-American meeting in Costa Rica in November.
Hypothesis: Zapatero participated in the Ibero-American meeting in Costa Rica.
Premise: Jakarta lies on a low, flat alluvial plain with historically extensive swampy areas; the parts of the city farther inland are slightly higher.
Hypothesis: The parts of Jakarta away from the coast are on slightly higher land.
Premise: Money raised from the sale will go into a trust for Hepburn's family.
Hypothesis: Proceeds go to Hepburn's family.
Premise: As an active member of the National Guard, he was called to duty in 1941. Although Kennon did not see active combat, he did not return home from World War II until May of 1945.
Hypothesis: Kennon did not participate in WWII.
Premise: The Auburn High School Athletic Hall of Fame recently introduced its Class of 2005 which includes 10 members.
Hypothesis: The Auburn High School Athletic Hall of Fame has ten members.
Premise: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A deadly strain of swine flu never seen before has broken out in Mexico, killing as many as 60 people and raising fears it is spreading across North America. The World Health Organization said it was concerned about what it called 800 "influenza-like" cases in Mexico, and also about a confirmed outbreak of a new strain of swine flu in the United States. It said about 60 people had died in Mexico. Mexico's government said it had confirmed that at least 16 people had died of the swine flu in central Mexico and that there could be another 45 fatal victims.
Hypothesis: 800 Mexicans have been affected by a new form of swine influenza.
Premise: Doctors who treated Ayrton Senna after he crashed during the San Marino Grand Prix have denied allegations that the Brazilian driver died at the Imola track.
Hypothesis: Ayrton Senna had the accident that caused his death at the San Marino Grand Prix.
Premise: Two Turkish engineers and an Afghan translator kidnapped in December were freed Friday.
Hypothesis: translator kidnapped in Iraq
Premise: Successful plaintiffs recovered punitive damages in Texas discrimination cases 53% of the time.
Hypothesis: Legal costs to recover punitive damages are a deductible business expense.
Premise: With the city's hotels in the midst of a sudden slowdown in business, operators are seeking wage cuts and other concessions from the unions representing 27,500 bellhops, housekeepers and waiters. But the unions are drawing a line across hotel lobbies, from the high-end Carlyle to the more budget-minded Ramada Inn, saying they see no need to bend now that operators are cutting rates in an effort to fill vacant rooms with tourists, executives and other travelers. It is far too soon to judge the financial health of the industry, said Peter Ward, president of the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council, an alliance of hotel unions.
Hypothesis: The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council is an alliance of hotel unions.
Premise: The discovery is based on velocity measurements of a whirlpool of hot gas orbiting the black hole.
Hypothesis: Hubble discovers black holes.
Premise: A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.
Hypothesis: Pope John Paul II died.
Premise: For lunch I went to Cipriani. The good thing about Cipriani is that it's all Italian. Every single person is Italian. Even the American sommelier is Italian. Everybody speaks Italian. It's a good feeling. I consider Cipriani one of the most refined services that I've ever had in a restaurant. For lunch I had spaghetti a la chitarra with Amatriciana sauce. I had beef tartar. I had fried seafood, mixed. I had also the fresh pasta with the duckling ragú. It was outstanding. Then I got a plate of Parmesan with green olives and I got the whole roasted branzino. It was me and another person. We had several glasses of wine. We didn't get dessert; we had a glass too much of wine, so we were very full. We stayed there like an hour just finishing the wine because my friend ordered a bottle.
Hypothesis: Amatriciana is a sauce.
Premise: A school dinner lady is claiming damages from a teenager who seriously injured her while playing tag with a friend. If she is successful, pupils could become legally liable for boisterous behaviour that results in accidents.   Michelle Orchard, 42, is seeking hundreds of thousands of pounds in damages from Sebastian Lee, who was 13 when he ran into her during the lunch break at Corfe Hills School, Corfe Mullen, Dorset, in January 2004.   Sebastian, with his friend in pursuit, tumbled into her backwards, striking her in the face with the back of his head, senior judges at the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. Mrs Orchard's nose was broken and her teeth were damaged. Her lawyers say that she also suffered serious brain damage, leading to partial paralysis and balance problems. She has been unable to work since the accident.
Hypothesis: Michelle Orchard is claiming hundreds of thousands of pounds from Sebastian Lee because she wants a new nose.
Premise: Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city, within a week and a half, despite concerns about the short supply of drinking water and heavily polluted floodwaters.
Hypothesis: Thousands of people are expected to return to New Orleans this week, as areas of the city are opened up to residents.
Premise: The discovery of the body of a warrior - thought to have died in battle more than 2,000 years ago - could help archaeologists to pinpoint the site of an ancient holy site. The young warrior, aged about 30, with his spear, a sword, his belt and scabbard, stunned archaeologists who found his stone coffin.
Hypothesis: Altai ice maiden triggers major dispute.
Premise: Toshiba has produced a fuel cell with no moving parts.
Hypothesis: Toshiba has no moving parts.
Premise: The British tabloids portrayed Nicholas Leeson as a working-class villain who single-handedly brought down Barings PLC, a 233-year-old London merchant bank that helped finance the Napoleonic wars.
Hypothesis: Barings was Britain's oldest merchant bank.
Premise: The article also mentions the greater prevalence of obesity among two minority populations, African-Americans and Hispanic/Latino, but does not consider in its analysis of the increase in obesity the increase of these these populations as a proportion of the United States population.  African-Americans and Hispanic/Latinos have a higher rates of obesity than White Americans, while Asian-Americans have a relatively low rate of obesity. Despite only representing one third of the U.S. population, African-Americans and Hispanic/Latinos represent about one half of the population growth.
Hypothesis: African-Americans are a minority in the U.S.
Premise: Tyson, who served three years in jail for rape in the 1990s and who bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight, still thinks he can be heavyweight champion again.
Hypothesis: Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1990.
Premise: The University has also apologized for the incident saying, "[we] are very sorry that the incident happened and the person will be dealt with according to law. The university is a place for discussion, debate and considered argument, not for shoe throwing". According to authorities, there was never any real threat to the prime minister. The man will appear before a judge on February 10.
Hypothesis: A man threw a shoe at the Prime Minister.
Premise: Nine months later, John Glenn becomes the first American man to orbit the Earth.
Hypothesis: John Glenn was the first man in orbit.
Premise: Police say that he was wearing orange overalls, a balaclava and a pistol when he stole $6300 from Cherrywood at about 3:15 p.m. Outside the bank Leatham was trying to hijack a car, he threatened an old man with his pistol, eventually stealing a black Mitsubishi Mirage. The car was later found abandoned around Fairmont Terrace in the Glenn Terrace or Ridge Street area.
Hypothesis: Children in New Zealand are forced to wear orange overalls.
Premise: As late as 1799, priests were still being imprisoned or deported to penal colonies and persecution only worsened after the French army led by General Louis Alexandre Berthier captured Rome and imprisoned Pope Pius VI, who would die in captivity in Valence, Drôme, France in August of 1799.
Hypothesis: Alexandre Berthier died in 1799.
Premise: The 10-men team is expected to arrive at the foot of the mountain in the end of April and began their journey to the 8,586-meter peak in early May.
Hypothesis: Kanchenjunga is 8586 meters high.
Premise: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Taliban militants made their deepest incursion into Pakistan this week, seizing control of areas that are a short drive from the capital city.  A Pakistani government official said the militants fully withdrew from the Buner district on Friday, although other officials cast doubt on the extent of the pullout and how long it would last. Buner is only 60 miles outside Islamabad. The situation is particularly concerning because Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state. The Islamic republic is believed to have between 30 and 40 nuclear warheads, according to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Hypothesis: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal creates concerns.
Premise: Friday, March 25, 2005 Terri Schiavo's father made a last-minute appeal to have his daughter's feeding tube reinserted Friday. "Terri is weakening. She's down to her last hours," said Bob Schindler, Schiavo's father. "Something has to be done and done quick." Bob Schindler and his wife Mary filed an emergency appeal Friday to have a feeding tube reinserted in their 41-year-old daughter. Earlier Friday, U.S. District Judge James Whittemore rejected the family's previous appeal. On Wednesday, he rejected a similar request. The new appeal will be filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, although that court has twice before rejected the family's appeal. The tube was removed on Friday, March 18, 2005.
Hypothesis: Bob Schindler married Mary.
Premise: 95% of the Gulf of Mexico's oil output is now out of service following Katrina, together with more than 83% of natural gas production.
Hypothesis: Crude oil prices have hit fresh highs as fears grow over the extent of damage, done by Hurricane Katrina, to oil output in the Gulf of Mexico.
Premise: Toshiba, the world's third-largest notebook computer maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., said the PC would be introduced in Japan in early 2006.
Hypothesis: Toshiba is a subsidiary of Dell Inc.
Premise: Hacking reported his wife missing on July 19, a Monday.
Hypothesis: Mark Hacking was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Monday.
Premise: British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves becomes the first woman to climb Mount Everest alone and without oxygen tanks.
Hypothesis: A woman succeeds in climbing Everest solo.
Premise: ON 29 June the Dutch right-wing coalition government collapsed. It was made up of the Christian-democrats (CDA) led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, the right wing liberal party (VVD) and the so-called 'left-liberal' D66.
Hypothesis: Three parties form a Dutch coalition government.
Premise: The Kinston Indians are a minor league baseball team in Kinston, North Carolina. The team, a Class A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians, plays in the Carolina League.
Hypothesis: Kinston Indians participate in the Carolina League.
Premise: Molly Walsh, 21, a George Washington University student shopping at a CVS pharmacy in Washington, D.C., said she didn't plan to toss any of the store-brand drugs at home that she'd bought to save money. Nor did she plan to stop buying the generic products.
Hypothesis: Molly Walsh plans to stop buying the generic products.
Premise: The newly suggested distance is much closer than the present positions at 2,870,972,200 kilometers from the sun for Uranus and 4,498,252,900 kilometers for Neptune.
Hypothesis: The moon Titan has a diameter of 5100 kilometers.
Premise: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said today's events could "make history anew" and to "escape the heavy chains of history". Blair said, "Look back and we see centuries pock-marked by conflict, hardship, even hatred, among the people of these islands." Blair's predecessor, Sir John Major said "The sight of people that were once totally antagonistic to one another sitting down to plan the future of Northern Ireland is very attractive," adding "I always believed from the outset that it was possible but that it would be difficult and that it would take a long time."
Hypothesis: Blair belongs to the Church of England.
Premise: Since the island also lacks wells, water has to be obtained from rain carefully collected in concrete cisterns.
Hypothesis: The island gets water from collected rain.
Premise: Jacques Santer succeeded Jacques Delors as president of the European Commission in 1995, the second Luxembourger to hold this high office.
Hypothesis: Jacques Delors succeeded Jacques Santer in the presidency of the European Commission.
Premise: The industrial espionage case involving GM and VW began with the hiring of Jos Ignacio Lopez, an employee of GM subsidiary Adam Opel, by VW as production director.
Hypothesis: There was an industrial espionage case involving GM and VW.
Premise: Swiss police confirmed Thursday that cult leader Luc Jouret was among the dead found in the Order of the Solar Temple's fire-gutted chalet in the alpine village of Granges-sur-Salvan.
Hypothesis: Luc Jouret was the leader of the Order of the Solar Temple.
Premise: The company, whose registered auditors are Deloitte and Touche, has instructed Ernst and Young to carry out a thorough review of the accounts of Eurest Support Services, a subsidiary which feeds UN peacekeepers in at least eight countries.
Hypothesis: Eurest Support Services is a subsidiary of Ernst and Young.
Premise: Three anti-Olympic games protesters, posed as a flower delivery service, quickly ransacked British Columbia, Canada premier Gordon Campbell's downtown Vancouver, British Columbia office yesterday afternoon, breaking windows and throwing pictures, office documents, and various other items. After the suspects were caught, they said that they were upset over Campbell's support for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. They also claimed to work for "The Anti-Poverty Committee". They are now facing charges for property damage and uttering threats during or after the incident. Police are only identifying them as a 23-year-old man, a 29-year-old man, and a 17-year old female. The 23-year-old faces a third charge of assault by trespassing.
Hypothesis: Vancouver is located in Canada.
Premise: The Townsend Thoresen cross-Channel ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the 6th of March with the loss of 135 lives.
Hypothesis: 100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.
Premise: Although they were born on different planets, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage's new son and Superman have something in common - both were named Kal-el.
Hypothesis: Nicolas Cage's son is called Kal-el.
Premise: After lots of speculations and speculative London betting on the outcome it has been announced that British author Doris Lessing ("The Golden Notebook", 1962) is the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. At the International Book Fair at Frankfurt, Germany, which is currently underway, this decision has met with general approval, as a decision awarding the literary work of an author well established beyond her native country, rather than a political statement. The reason given for giving the prestigious award to Doris Lessing was to honour "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".
Hypothesis: Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.
Premise: The headquarters of the WTO are in Geneva, but the disputes which come under its purview are settled in Paris, under ICC rules.
Hypothesis: The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.
Premise: A company investigation turned up metal in roughly 200 pills of the 70 million it passed through a metal detector, according to the FDA.
Hypothesis: The FDA turned up metal in roughly 200 pills of the 70 million it passed through a metal detector.
Premise: Cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev, currently on board the Mir space station, has become the person with the longest total stay in space. He has clocked up 681 days.
Hypothesis: Russians hold record for longest stay in space.
Premise: On December 7, BBC News reported a story about Dr James Anderson, a teacher in the Computer Science department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. In the report it was stated that Anderson had "solved a very important problem" that was 1200 years old, the problem of division by zero. According to the BBC, Anderson had created a new number, that he had named "nullity", that lay outside of the real number line. Anderson terms this number a "transreal number", and denotes it with the Greek letter F. He had taught this number to pupils at Highdown School, in Emmer Green, Reading.
Hypothesis: Dr James Anderson is an employee at the University of Reading.
Premise: The SEC's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.
Hypothesis: Industries were defeated by the SEC.
Premise: I have a 1986 Coca-Cola Grand Union 100 Year Statue of Liberty pin set.
Hypothesis: The Statue of Liberty was built in 1986.
Premise: Doug Lawrence bought the impressionist oil landscape by J. Ottis Adams in the mid-1970s at a Fort Wayne antiques dealer.
Hypothesis: Doug Lawrence sold the impressionist oil landscape by J. Ottis Adams
Premise: An initial bid to prevent seven former employees of GM from working for Volkswagen for 12 months was thrown out by a Frankfurt court.
Hypothesis: All charges of anti-competitive staff poaching were later dismissed.
Premise: We knew there were restrictions on video cameras and satellite phones but we're now told even pre-recorded radio material on non-political subjects would not be allowed, said BBC reporter Charles Haviland on the incident. This move comes after an American was forced off the mountain after being discovered with a Tibetan flag. These are not permitted on the Tibetan side of the mountain. A Nepali official aimed to justify the new restriction. "We are doing this for our friend China," he said.
Hypothesis: Charles Haviland is an American citizen.