Question: Context: Since the fear of death is virtually a universal phenomenon, the death penalty is an unparalleled deterrent for people considering a crime.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.

Question: Context: New research shows there has been a sharp increase in disfiguring skin cancers, particularly in women under the age of 40, providing more evidence that young people are not heeding warnings about the dangers of tanning.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Tanning may cause skin cancers.

Question: Context: The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe appears to have passed its peak, says the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of new cases recorded in the week to mid-March nearly halved to 2,000, against 3,800 the preceding week and 8,000 cases a week in February. But the agency warned the weekly statistics were not always accurate. There have been more than 90,000 cholera cases in Zimbabwe since the start of the epidemic last August, about 4,000 of them fatal.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Since last August about 4,000 people died of cholera in Zimbabwe.

Question: Context: The Argentinian propaganda made the Gurkhas out to be evil savages who ate their PoW's. However instead of causing the Argentinian conscripts fight to the end, it caused them to run away, the Gurkhas never saw more than brief token resistance.

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Hypothesis: The Gurkhas come from Nepal.