input question: The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC lost 4.95 points , or 0.33 percent , at 1,486.14 .
The more broadly based Nasdaq Telecommunications Index rose 0.7 percent .

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output answer: no

[Q]: The government said FirstEnergy Nuclear determined that a contractor had established an unprotected high-speed computer connection to its corporate network that allowed the " Slammer " infection to spread internally .
It said FirstEnergy determined that a contractor had established an unprotected computer connection to its corporate network that allowed the so-called ''Slammer ' ' worm to spread internally .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]: yes

Question:
S1: However , commercial use of the 2.6.0 kernel is still months off for most customers .
S2: Commercial releases of the 2.6 kernel by major Linux distributors still remain months away .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
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Answer:
yes

QUES: Thirty-eight percent of patients surveyed in five urban clinics believed the myth that cancer spreads when exposed to air during surgery , according to a poll to be published Tuesday .

Thirty-eight percent of cancer patients in five urban clinics believed the myth that the disease spreads when exposed to air during surgery , according to a survey .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

[Q]: However , several ministers from more developed APEC economies have said failure to fight terror will be a cost in itself .

More developed APEC members say failure to fight terror will be a cost in itself .

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[A]: yes

[Q]: " He just heard two huge bangs and the balloon shuddered and fell , " Nicky Webster , a spokesman for Hempleman-Adams , said .

Partway across the Atlantic , " He just heard two huge bangs and the balloon shuddered and fell , " the balloonist 's spokesperson Nicky Webster said .

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[A]:
yes