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hypothesis: President Bush authorized the federal courts to review the case. premise: That request is at odds with the law signed early yesterday, by Bush, directing the federal courts to consider the case de novo without taking into account the state court's findings.

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hypothesis: Datel acquired C&D Technologies premise: C&D Technologies announced that it has closed the acquisition of Datel, Inc.

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hypothesis: Tour de France winner is likely to lose the crown. premise: David Millar retained his Tour de France leader's yellow jersey despite crashing in the final two kilometres of the third stage of the race to Nantes.

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hypothesis: John W. Hinckley Jr. shot Reagan in the chest. premise: Reagan was seriously wounded by a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr.

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hypothesis: Clark is employed at General Sessions Court. premise: He said that his daughter was told that Clark had been cited to General Sessions Court.

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hypothesis: Robots are used to spray dye on garments. 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.

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hypothesis: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder. premise: For others, in the northern hemisphere, judgment may be a little off due to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which is often at its peak in the weeks following the shortest hours of daylight.

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hypothesis: Plants are grown in substances other than soil. premise: Some people may think that there is no other way to grow plants other than in soil; there is however, another way.

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hypothesis: A man was stabbed because of a soccer game. premise: Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.

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hypothesis: Alexander the Great's Tomb remains undiscovered. premise: The golden jewellery, found in an intact Royal Macedonian tomb in 1977, is exquisite. It is now the prize exhibit in the archaeological museum in Thessaloniki and the label says that it came from the tomb of Philip II, Alexander the Great's father.

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hypothesis: Kieslowski is a film and TV director. premise: Nevertheless, the international reputation of some Polish artists, notably the film maker Krzysztof Kieslowski, has never been higher. To use a crass commercial yardstick, the DVD boxed set of his Decalogue series (ten one-hour dramas based loosely on the Ten Commandments, made for Polish TV in 1988) is currently number 3,700 in Amazon.com's sales rankings (about even with The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection).

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hypothesis: Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC. premise: Nick Leeson was jailed for fraud following the collapse of Barings Bank in 1995. He had run up losses of 850m on the Far East stock markets.

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hypothesis: Prince Charles owns an estate in Bristol. premise: Police were called to the Highgrove House, the home belonging to Prince Charles and his wife Camilla on Tuesday night after police received a call that there was an intruder on the property. "He was detained within the grounds and did not gain access to any buildings," said a spokesperson for the police, Tony Rymer. A spokesperson for the estate refused to comment to the media calling it "a matter for the police" and that any comments on the intrusion should be given through them. According to a Gloucester Police spokeswoman, a man from Bristol, England was arrested after wielding a pitchfork around the property. The name of the 55-year-old has not been released, but police charged him with trespassing. He was later released after posting bail. Camilla and Charles, who were both present and sleeping on the estate at the time, were not injured.

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hypothesis: Kim Il Sung's son is called Kim Jong Il. premise: In Seoul, Han confirmed that all North Korean media on Monday had started referring to Kim Jong Il as "His Excellency" or by the term previously reserved for his father, "the Great Leader." Until now, the younger Kim has been called "the Dear Leader."

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hypothesis: People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession. premise: The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable.

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hypothesis: The "yellow" and the "red shirts" are enemies. premise: The founder of Thailand's "yellow shirt" protest movement that shut down Bangkok airports last year was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt Friday, just days after troops cracked down on rioting protesters from the rival, anti-government "red shirt" group. The government quickly moved to tighten security around Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who said a state of emergency that was imposed Sunday in Bangkok would remain in place. Vehicles carrying Abhisit were attacked twice by red-shirted protesters in the run-up to this week's riots.

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hypothesis: Luong threw his children off a bridge in Louisiana. premise: Family members and friends told Fox News that the couple had been fighting over several things, including Luong's girlfriend, on Sunday evening and Monday morning. Luong later drove off with his four children, whom he reported missing to the police and claimed he had left them with his girlfriend who lives in a hotel. Police however became suspicious due to "holes in his story" and he later changed his story. The Associated Press say that the authorities believe that Dauphin Island Bridge is where Luong threw the four children, of which he was the biological father of three, into the water.

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hypothesis: Five other soldiers have been refused to face courts-martial. premise: Five other soldiers have been ordered to face courts-martial.

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hypothesis: FMLN guerrilla units attacked a commercial company. premise: FMLN guerrilla units ambushed the 1st company of military detachment no. 2 Jr. Battalion at la Pena Canton, Villa Victoria Jurisdiction.

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hypothesis: Dow Jones is down. premise: The media always talk about the Dow being up or down a certain number of points.

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hypothesis: Haiti's only democratic presidential election took place in 1990. premise: There can be no doubt that the Administration already is weary of Aristide, a populist Roman Catholic priest who in December, 1990, won an overwhelming victory in Haiti's only democratic presidential election

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hypothesis: Most of the marijuana entering the United States comes from Canada. premise: Canadian traffickers also are reported to drop their marijuana loads across the border in remote areas (often without the knowledge of rural landowners), cross into the United States without drugs, later retrieve the marijuana, and continue on to U.S. distribution sites.

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hypothesis: Several new political parties emerged. premise: Political parties in PNG lack ideological conviction and rely almost exclusively on patronage politics, personalism, and regional bases. Several parties have emerged in Papua New Guinean politics. In the House of Assembly elected in 1973, the Pangu Pati, headed by Michael Somare, formed a coalition government with the People's Progress Party, and Somare became prime minister.

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hypothesis: Private spaceship launches. premise: The Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) has given license approval to Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, permitting the firm to expand flight testing of SpaceShipOne -- a privately-financed rocket plane to carry passengers to suborbital altitude.

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hypothesis: The name of Queen Cleopatra's sister was Arsinöe. premise: ARCHEOLOGISTS and forensic experts believe they have identified the skeleton of Cleopatra's younger sister, murdered more than 2,000 years ago on the orders of the Egyptian queen. The remains of Princess Arsinöe, put to death in 41BC on the orders of Cleopatra and her Roman lover Mark Antony to eliminate her as a rival, are the first relics of the Ptolemaic dynasty to be identified. The breakthrough, by an Austrian team, has provided pointers to Cleopatra's true ethnicity. Scholars have long debated whether she was Greek or Macedonian like her ancestor the original Ptolemy, a Macedonian general who was made ruler of Egypt by Alexander the Great, or whether she was north African.

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hypothesis: Aristide had Prime Minister Robert Malval murdered in Port-au-Prince. 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.

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hypothesis: An Indonesian ferry with 300 passengers sank. 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.

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hypothesis: Sex-change operations become more common. 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.

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hypothesis: Full English is recommended by New Zealand's Qualifications Authority. premise: New Zealand's Qualifications Authority said Friday that it still strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.

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hypothesis: Nokia produces mobile chips. premise: Nokia, Texas Instruments and other leading makers of mobile phones have formally complained to Brussels that Qualcomm, the US mobile chipmaker, has unfairly used its patents on 3G technologies.

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hypothesis: US shuttle Atlantis docks with the Mir space station. premise: The U.S. space shuttle Atlantis, its lights flashing like a beacon, smoothly docked with Russia's space station Mir Wednesday on its mission to pick up U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid, who has spent a record-breaking six months in orbit.

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hypothesis: Klaus Pohl is one of Germany's most performed dramatists. premise: A collection of real-life testimonies by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's most performed dramatists, its power resides less in the conventional meaning of the word drama than in what it reveals - a country still deeply at odds with itself, a kaleidoscope of events that flatters neither side, neither Western capitalism nor the former communist regime.

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hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease is treated using drugs. premise: Alzheimer's disease is successfully treated, and controlled by drugs which inhibit the synthesis of beta-amyloid protein.

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hypothesis: Fruits and vegetables prevent osteoporosis. premise: The results of numerous epidemiological studies and recent clinical trials provide consistent evidence that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of chronic disease.

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hypothesis: Playwright Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Death of a Salesman', has died. premise: Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died.

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hypothesis: James Bond was created by Ian Fleming. 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.

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hypothesis: The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction. premise: Thanks to a global ban on the ivory trade that was passed in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the African elephant population may be reversing its spiral toward extinction

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hypothesis: Toshiba Corp.'s headquarters is in Japan. premise: Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday that it has developed the first laptop computer with its new HD DVD drive: a next-generation disc format it is promoting over a rival standard pushed by Sony Corp.

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hypothesis: National pension systems currently adopted in Europe are in difficulties. premise: Europe's economic environment has altered considerably over the last thirty years, and the economies of European countries have progressively opened up to the global economy. As a result, the competitiveness of the European economies is dependent not just on production costs, but also on the performance of pension and social security systems guaranteeing security for the future.

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hypothesis: Gateway lowered its sales and earnings guidance for the year. premise: Personal computer maker, Gateway Inc., on Monday, lowered its 2005 revenue and earnings forecast, sending its shares plunging 11 percent, as pricing in the industry became increasingly cut-throat.

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hypothesis: Disney gave the Smithsonian a trove of sought-after African art. premise: The Walt Disney Co. donated one of the world's most significant private collections of African artwork, yesterday, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.

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hypothesis: CBS newsman Harry Reasoner was born in Iowa. premise: CBS newsman Harry Reasoner is returning to his Iowa hometown to get married Saturday.

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hypothesis: Ireland has been divided since 1921. premise: O'Connor then fought on the side of the Republicans in the 1921-22 Civil War, with those who favored rejection of the treaty which brought peace between Ireland and Britain, but at the cost of a divided island.

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hypothesis: Silvio Berlusconi is in Forza Italia. premise: The demands on Italy's 53rd postwar government are apparent, as are the resentment and uncertainties Berlusconi has roused at the head of a new party with the catchy name Forza Italia (Go, Italy).

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hypothesis: The Vice-Chairman of the Committee Charles Duelfer said, "we hope to end Iraq's resolution." premise: The Commission's Deputy Chairman, Charles Duelfer, said, "We will keep the inspectors there in the hope that Iraq may back down from its decision."

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hypothesis: Microsoft opens a research center in China. premise: Microsoft Corp. is establishing, in Shanghai, China, a center for research and development. The center will work on the company's MSN service. It will be Microsoft's first research and development center of this kind outside the U.S. Microsoft decided to take this step because of several setbacks that occurred in its online services working in China. One of the company's setbacks concerns the resignation of Luo Chuan, who was Microsoft's top executive responsible for the Chinese Windows Live unit. The company's new research and development center is to be established in Shanghai's Zizhu Science Park. At this location, where another giant, Intel Corp, already has its research office, Microsoft plans to develop Internet software.

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hypothesis: Cyanide fishing is linked to the destruction of area reefs. premise: Fishermen using the poison sodium cyanide have helped to destroy an estimated 70% of the reefs.

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hypothesis: Some 30 million shares have been assigned to the company's workers. premise: With $549 million in cash as of June 30, Google can easily afford to make amends.

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hypothesis: The Carnival Cruise Lines is a brand of Carnival Corp. premise: Fourteen guests and five crew remained ill and in isolation when the ship arrived at Port Everglades, Fla., according to a statement from Carnival Cruise Lines, a brand of Carnival Corp.

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hypothesis: Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines. premise: Last month, native bird trappers have snared and caught the Luzon Buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri or Worcester's buttonquail) in Dalton Pass, a cold and wind-swept bird passageway in the Caraballo Mountains, in Nueva Vizcaya, located between Cordillera Central and Sierra Madre mountain ranges, in Northern Luzon. The rare species, previously known to birders only through drawings based on dead museum specimens collected several decades ago, was identified in a documentary filmed in the Philippines called Bye-Bye Birdie."

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hypothesis: The Sun workstation was created by Bechtlsheim. premise: For Bechtolsheim, who designed the prototype for the first Sun workstation while he was a Birkenstock-shod Stanford University graduate student in 1982, the new line of computers, code named Galaxy, is a return to the company's roots.

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hypothesis: Fabio Capello is the coach of the English team. premise: In-form Rooney's hot goalscoring streak of seven goals in his last four internationals saw him win the vote to be crowned England's Player of the Year for 2008. Manchester United striker Rooney, 23, is set for his 50th cap against Ukraine at Wembley tomorrow and is enjoying the best form of his England career after a heart-to-heart with Capello. England boss Capello ordered Rooney to work hard on his finishing, stop shooting from long range and start scoring tap-ins to help transform him into a prolific marksman.

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hypothesis: Toshiba is a subsidiary of Dell Inc. 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.

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hypothesis: Madonna was born in Bay City, Mich. premise: As a real native Detroiter, I want to remind everyone that Madonna is from Bay City, Mich., a nice place in the thumb of the state's lower peninsula.

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hypothesis: Ian Tomlinson was shot by a policeman. premise: A man who died during the G20 protests was pushed back by a police line minutes earlier, independent investigators have said. Ian Tomlinson, 47, who died of a heart attack, was blocked from passing through a police cordon as he attempted to walk home from work at a newsagent, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said. He was caught on several CCTV cameras walking up King William Street where he was confronted by uniformed officers shortly before 7.30pm last Wednesday.

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hypothesis: Richard Rivera caused the death of Luis Martinez. premise: A bouncer at the Irish Pub in Atlantic City, New Jersey was stabbed to death Saturday morning while trying to break up a fight. Luis Martinez, 25, of Newark, was arrested on two charges of aggravated assault for the brawl that left 27-year-old Richard Rivera dead.

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hypothesis: The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is a project held by the US National Center for Education Statistics. premise: Preliminary results from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), released 15 December 2005 by the US National Center for Education Statistics, indicate gains and losses in literacy among minority adults between 1992 and 2003. The nationally representative study among US adults age 16 and older found the over-all average prose and document literacy remained relatively unchanged, but quantitative literacy improved 8 points (on a scale of 500.) Results among minorities were mixed, with White and Asian/Pacific Islander minorities scoring significantly higher than Hispanic or Black ethnicities; Hispanic subjects in particular had sharp decreases in prose and document literacy (-9% and -8%, respectively) and quantitative illiteracy remained unchanged with 50% of subjects scoring at less than basic literacy levels.

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hypothesis: Ms Lupse is a TV presenter. premise: On December 6 2008, Adela Lupse, presenting the call-in quiz Telepremii on National TV on Romanian television, had what The Daily Telegraph described as a "tantrum on air". As the final prize became available, Ms Lupse's show had no callers. Already excited, she began to shout. Throwing the telephone down on the studio floor and stomping on it, she admonished her viewers, "I want the telephone to ring now. Now. Call me now!".

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hypothesis: Bush is scheduled to visit the city of Bogor. premise: Thousands of troops are being deployed to secure the city of Bogor, where Bush is to hold talks with his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

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hypothesis: Nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties were attacked by the drug trafficking cartels. premise: Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.

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hypothesis: The Lord's Resistance Army is a rebel organization. premise: [Episcopal News Service] Several parishes and villages in Sudan's Episcopal Diocese of Mundri have fallen victim to a fresh wave of attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel organization whose soldiers are prolonging a two-decades-long terrorist campaign gruesomely marked by widespread massacres and child abductions. At least four people have been confirmed dead and insecurity in the region is forcing residents to flee the villages of Tore Wandi, Moba, Bangolo, Ledinwa and Garia for the relative safety of Mundri. One of the slain is Wilson, a lay reader at a parish in Moba, wrote the Rt. Rev. Bismark Monday, bishop of Mundri, in a January 15 email to church partners. Monday explained that one of Wilson's sons and grandsons -- both about 10 years old -- were abducted.

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hypothesis: The Gurkhas come from Nepal. premise: The Gurkhas come from mountainous Nepal and are extremely tenacious warriors-as foot soldiers they are the best only in close combat jungle/mountain combat and hand to hand type situation.

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hypothesis: People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young. premise: The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) launched its latest anti-cannabis campaign in Sydney today. The campaign, which specifically targets 14 to 19 year-olds aims to reduce the number of young people experimenting with the drug. The advertisements follow a tightening of cannabis laws in NSW last year. The campaign, which NSW Health has cost at AUD$600,000 will use a variety of print ads placed at bus stops and in youth magazines in addition to advertisements on websites such as MySpace and MSN. Print ads use a tag line saying "Pot. It mightn't kill you, but it could turn you into a dickhead".

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hypothesis: Pedophile gets life in prison premise: A priest who served in the Diocese of Metuchen in the mid-1980s has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a Massachusetts boy.

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hypothesis: Two Trains Running was written by Wilson. premise: He is the professor of theater and drama at Loyola University and the director of Wilson's "Two Trains Running," now onstage at Pegasus Players.

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hypothesis: Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers. premise: Organic fertilizers like vermi compost are used for increasing the quality, fertility and mineral content of the soil.

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hypothesis: China is a member of SCO. premise: Parviz Davudi was representing Iran at a meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), the fledgling association that binds Russia, China and four former Soviet republics of central Asia together to fight terrorism.

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hypothesis: Hector Oqueli Colindres comes from El Salvador. premise: Mexico City (Mexico), 12 Jan 90 (DPA) - Salvadoran Social Democratic politician Hector Oqueli Colindres was kidnapped today, in Guatemala city, along with Guatemalan Social Democratic leader Gilda Flores, his party, in Mexico City, reported.

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hypothesis: Los Vegas hosted the Comdex trade show for 20 years. 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.

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hypothesis: Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Prize for Peace. premise: PST Chittagong, Bangladesh-- Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh's "Banker to the Poor" who provides loans to help millions of people fight poverty by starting businesses, has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

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hypothesis: The mayor of Mulqui district was murdered with a firearm. premise: Alleged terrorists today, killed Dolores Hinostroza, the mayor of Mulqui district, shooting her five times.

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hypothesis: Malaria is widespread in Africa. premise: Across Africa, young boys and girls wake up each morning just like children here in the Washington D.C. area. The children are no different; they do chores, eat, play sports, and go to school. That is, if they can survive the mosquito bites that transmit the deadly malaria parasites. Those parasites kill an estimated 3,000 children each day in Africa. While malaria has been all but forgotten in the United States, it remains the leading cause of death for children under 5 in Africa, killing approximately 1 million people a year.

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hypothesis: Bob Schindler married Mary. 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.

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hypothesis: Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn. premise: When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.

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hypothesis: MV Pacific Adventurer has lost oil in the area of Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast. premise: Miles of Australia's most pristine coastline have been declared a disaster zone following a large oil spill from a storm-damaged cargo ship. At least 60 kilometres of Queensland's southeastern shore were contaminated when at least 42 tonnes of oil spilled into the ocean from MV Pacific Adventurer on Wednesday night. The ship, which had sailed into cyclonic weather, lost 31 containers aboard, one of which pierced the ship's hull and a fuel tank. Anna Bligh, the Queensland premier, has declared Moreton Island, Bribie Island and southern parts of the Sunshine Coast disaster zones.

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hypothesis: There is a Marriott Hotel in London. premise: The Marriott is a popular place for foreigners to stay and a prominent enterprise in the city, despite a wave of violence the country suffers. The hotel had been victim of another attack in January 2007 where a security guard was killed and several people injured after the guard blocked a bomber from getting at the hotel, forcing him to detonate his explosives where he was.

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hypothesis: Manchester was beaten by Everton. premise: Second-half goals, from Danny Mills and Darius Vassell, lifted Manchester City to a 2-0 victory over Everton.

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hypothesis: Canadian Idol is a competition for singers. premise: This weekend, March 25 and 26, was a big weekend in the Ottawa area for Canadian Idol want a Be's. Canadian Idol is a national singing competition that is organized by CTV Inc. a Canadian broadcasting communications company for Canadian citizens. The television show, greatly based on "American Idol," has been on going for several seasons. In the past auditions have been know to have line-ups of thousands of people, however, this year after taking a tour around the new location it appears that line ups were manageable. Having the auditions at the St. Laurent Shopping mall [1] makes this easier said Idol's security coordinator Rick Paciorek.[2] Organizers have decided to change the way the auditions will "rock and roll."

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hypothesis: Felipe Calderon won the presidential election of Mexico. premise: Mr Lopez Obrador has alleged electoral fraud cost him the presidency, despite a recount confirming Felipe Calderon as Mexico's president-elect.

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hypothesis: Lopez took documents from GM to VW. premise: GM has initiated criminal investigations in Germany and the US on the basis of their suspicions that Mr Lopez and his team stole confidential information before defecting to VW in March.

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hypothesis: Saddam Hussein was being treated as a dignitary. premise: Saddam Hussein was being treated with "dignity and respect."

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hypothesis: Michael Bloomberg is the mayor of New York. 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.

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hypothesis: The River Thames flows through London. premise: The London Eye in London, England sits 443ft over the River Thames. It has attracted more than 27 million visitors since its formal opening on December 31, 1999. Each compartment is set to be air-conditioned and hold up to 30 people. Three possible locations for the wheel to sit have been selected. This is not the first attempt by the Iraqi Tourism Board to bring tourists into the capital. The board are seeking investors for a resort island. The island would include a six star hotel and a 18 hole golf course.

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hypothesis: Millions of dollars of art were recovered, including works by Dali. premise: Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested five men and recovered millions of dollars worth of art stolen earlier this month, including works by Salvador Dali and Henri Matisse. Police recovered all the stolen art except two Chinese ceramic sculptures from the 7th Century and a collection of silverware.

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hypothesis: The military protection zone around Falklands was lifted. premise: Britain agreed to lift by March 31 a 150-mile military protection zone enforced around the islands since Argentina invaded them in 1982.

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hypothesis: Bill McInerney is accused of killing a gay teenager. premise: The father of an Oxnard teenager accused of gunning down a gay classmate who was romantically attracted to him has been found dead, Ventura County authorities said today. Bill McInerney, 45, was found shortly before 8 a.m. in the living room of his Silver Strand home by a friend, said James Baroni, Ventura County's chief deputy medical examiner. The friend was supposed to drive him to a court hearing in his son's murder trial, Baroni said. McInerney's 15-year-old son, Brandon, is accused of murder and a hate crime in the Feb. 12, 2008, shooting death of classmate Lawrence "Larry" King, 15. The two boys had been sparring in the days before the killing, allegedly because Larry had expressed a romantic interest in Brandon.

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hypothesis: Grozny is the capital of Chechnya. premise: While civilians ran for cover or fled to the countryside, Russian forces were seen edging their artillery guns closer to Grozny, and Chechen fighters were offering little resistance.

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hypothesis: Mars is called 'the red planet'. premise: Mars is considered the red planet because of its bright red color.

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hypothesis: Norwegian police arrested three people for the theft of Munch's painting, 'The Scream'. premise: Norwegian police released one of three people arrested when Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream', stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo, was found.

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hypothesis: BAT acquired production interests in the Ukraine, Hungary and Russia. premise: In Russia, BAT is setting up a joint venture with Yava, Moscow's largest cigarette factory.

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