The SEC's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.
Is this true: Industries were defeated by the SEC.

A: no

Meanwhile, at a Pushkin-Goethe Festival held recently in Moscow to observe the poets' birthdays (this year is Goethe's 250th), Dmitri Prigov, a post-modernist poet and conceptual artist, took the first line from "Onegin" ("My uncle - high ideals inspire him") and set it to Buddhist and Muslim mantras and Russian Orthodox and Gregorian chants.
Is this true: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.

A: no

The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.
Is this true: The world population is 5.6 billion.

A: yes

A leading human rights group on Wednesday identified Poland and Romania as the likely locations in eastern Europe of secret prisons where al-Qaeda suspects are interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Is this true: CIA secret prisons were located in Eastern Europe.

A:
yes