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hypothesis: Gamma rays are forms of electromagnetic radiation. premise: Gamma ray bursts are some of the most powerful objects observed in the Universe and are thought to signal the birth of black holes. Swift is designed to detect the bursts and automatically re-orient itself to gather images and data of the phenomenon.
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hypothesis: Nikolai Haitov is a historian. premise: Most of the life of Petko Kiryakov was not unveiled by historians but by the prominent Bulgarian writer Nikolai Haitov, who wrote a novel and a script which was turned into a TV series, which became a favourite of most Bulgarians.
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hypothesis: According to a song, Barack Obama is Irish. premise: A song proclaiming that United States president-elect Barack Obama is Irish has got more than 600,000 views on video sharing site YouTube, with many of those views coming after he was elected on November 4. "O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara, There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama," states the song. "You don't believe me, I hear you say. But Barack's as Irish, as was JFK. His granddaddy's daddy came from Moneygall, a small Irish village, well known to you all".
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hypothesis: Jose Jesus Pena is accused of the assassination of Manuel Antonio Rugama. premise: Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.
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hypothesis: Mr Joyce is an Australian Senator. premise: Whilst the Government has an absolute majority in the Australian Senate, it is not guaranteed that the necessary legislation will pass this house. Garnering the support of key Senator Joyce is critical to ensure that the bills will pass (as he will have the deciding vote) and he has already stated that, due to a damning report released earlier in the House of Representatives showing that fourteen percent of lines were faulty amongst other criticsm, that it has turned the "green [light] to amber" [1].
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hypothesis: Turkey plays host to suicide bombers. premise: Bombs exploded in two Turkish cities Thursday only days before Turkey plays host to a NATO summit.
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hypothesis: Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s. premise: Operation FALCON was conducted during a one week period, April 4-10, 2005, chosen to coincide with National Crime Victim's Rights Week , April 10-16, the dates being chosen to "honor the victims" of violent crime in America. "By taking violent fugitives off the streets and putting them behind bars where they belong," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , "we've honored the victims and made our streets safer."
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hypothesis: The Aurora Borealis was discovered in 1995. premise: In 1955, the Aurora Borealis, a coating applied to crystal stones to produce a "rainbow of colors" effect was introduced.
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hypothesis: Bush supports global terrorism. premise: In announcing plans today to prepare the nation for combating a future worldwide wave of bird flu, President Bush used vocabulary and tactics that are familiar from his confrontation with global terrorism.
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hypothesis: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is accused of an attack on Merino's home. premise: Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's [FMLN] urban commandos have denied reports they participated in an attack on vice president-elect Francisco Merino's home.
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hypothesis: Prehistoric art discovered in South Africa. premise: Stony Brook, NY (1/10/02)- The discovery of paleolithic art in a cave in South Africa is causing researchers to consider an older and less Euro-centric view of the origins of what is considered 'modern behavior'.
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hypothesis: Amnesty International takes care of human rights. premise: Addressing a function organized here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anand said, the greatest and most urgent challenges of human rights in India were in the areas of maternal and child care, child education, child labor, child abuse and protection of minorities and weaker sections.
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hypothesis: Yemen's Islamic Jihad group was set up by old Afgan warriors in 1992. premise: The Yemeni Islamic Jihad group emerged in 1992, and it is comprised of old warriors from Afghanistan.
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hypothesis: Child labor is widely used in Asia. premise: Asia has the highest number of child workers, but Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest proportion of working children relative to population.
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hypothesis: Mr Smith entered his guilty plea to 11 counts of manslaughter and also to lying to investigators about his medical history, under an agreement reached with prosecutors. premise: Prosecutors were still expected to unseal an 11-count manslaughter indictment against the ferry's captain, Michael Gansas. He violated procedure by his absence from the wheelhouse during docking, when Smith lost control of the ferry.
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hypothesis: Regina Shueller works for Italy's La Repubblica newspaper. premise: ECB spokeswoman, Regina Schueller, declined to comment on a report in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that the ECB council will discuss Mr. Fazio's role in the takeover fight at its Sept. 15 meeting.
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hypothesis: Domestic fires are the major cause of fire death. premise: Based on a worldwide study of smoking-related fire and disaster data, UC Davis epidemiologists show smoking is a leading cause of fires and death from fires globally.
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hypothesis: Ocean remote sensing is developed. premise: The Sea-Viewing wide Field-of-View Sensor, SeaWiFS, has brought to oceanographers a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing data.
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hypothesis: The Osaka World Trade Center is the tallest building in Japan. premise: The Osaka World Trade Center is the tallest building in Western Japan.
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hypothesis: Giovanni Agnelli is the president of Fiat. premise: Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, owner of Juventus, was quoted by Italian newspapers as saying that when Baggio came off the field after the Mexico game, "He looked like a wet rabbit."
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hypothesis: Iranian chemical weapons threaten United States. premise: It has become increasingly clear that Iran is making rapid progress toward attaining a nuclear weapons capability as U.S. officials have confirmed the presence of various nuclear sites that Tehran has failed to disclose
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hypothesis: Saginaw police mistakenly went to the wrong house in response to a complaint. premise: Saginaw police responded to a domestic violence complaint at the wrong house and ended up shooting the owners' dog.
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hypothesis: In most cases, the patient is comatose or mentally unable to communicate his/her feelings. premise: The Supreme Court said today states may bar the removal of life-sustaining treatment from comatose patients who have not made or cannot make their desires known.
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hypothesis: Chirac doesn't want to be re-elected. premise: I will not seek your votes for a new mandate. With these words, the President of France, Jacques Chirac (74) announced during a radio and television broadcast at 20:00 UTC that it's time for him to serve his country in a different way. The announcement was widely speculated about and did not come as a surprise. The official announcement gives the candidate from the majority party UMP, Nicolas Sarkozy, more freedom during the next six weeks that remain before the Presidential elections in France. Although Sarkozy is from the same party as Chirac and hopes to receive an endorsement from him, the President has not yet expressed his support for a particular candidate to succeed him, and he did not refer to Sarkozy during any moment of his speech.
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hypothesis: The Peruvian bridge in Ayachuco province broke because of the weight on it. premise: Local health department officials were quoted as saying that the bridge over the Santa Barbara river, in southern Peru's Ayacucho province, "broke in two" as students and teachers from four rural schools were crossing it while going home. Fernando Valencia, a surgeon with a local hospital confirmed in reports that the death toll had risen to nine. The accident also injured 53 others, most of whom were children between the ages of 10 and 13, Valencia said. Fourteen of the victims were in critical condition. Local police said the 120-meter bridge, made of wooden boards and slats held together by steel cables, collapsed because too many people were on it.
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hypothesis: People are willing to risk imprisonment rather than perform military service. premise: Every year Israel jails individuals simply because they refuse to perform military service for reasons of conscience.
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hypothesis: The Berlin International Film Festival awards the Golden Bear. premise: Fest : "In the Name of the Father" an Academy Award contender starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a man wrongly convicted for an IRA bombing, won the Golden Bear Award for best picture Monday at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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hypothesis: The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara. premise: George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is the former 41st President of the United States of America. Almost immediately upon his return from the war in December 1944, George Bush married Barbara Pierce.
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hypothesis: John Martin is the founder of Black Sparrow Press. premise: Bukowski attracted the attention of John Martin who founded Black Sparrow Press in 1965 specifically to publish him.
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hypothesis: Ramadan announced that Iraq will not cooperate with the inspectors. premise: Ramadan told reporters at the opening ceremony of the Baghdad International Exposition, "No cooperation and no inspection or monitoring by the American Zionist espionage commission (the Special Commission for disarming Iraq's banned weapons - UNSCOM) before Iraq's demands are met."
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hypothesis: Officials said that the suspect, a Finnish citizen, was among the dead. premise: Officials said the Finnish suspect was among the dead but did not provide a motive for the attack.
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hypothesis: 4 children died in Hong Kong because of melamine contained in milk. premise: Guanshengyuan, a Chinese company that makes children's candy, has stopped selling its popular brand White Rabbit, which is sold nationally in China, after tests confirmed the presence of melamine. Bright foods owns the candy company. Earlier their powdered milk was found to contain melamine which sickened over 53,000 people and was responsible for the deaths of at least four infant children. Guanshengyuan has stopped exporting their goods to the nearly 50 companies overseas that buy them. Melamine has also been found in Hong Kong in baby cereal and vegetable formula made by Heinz. It has also been found in wasabi crackers which are manufactured by the Chinese company, Silang House. Another Chinese food company called Marudai Food Co. has also halted the sales of several items such as meat buns, cream buns and corn crepes made with cream over fears that melamine laced powered milk has contaminated their products. So far there have been no reports of any illnesses associated with Marudai Foods.
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hypothesis: The 54-year-old man resides in London. premise: The 54-year-old man from London, who was not otherwise identified, was located following cooperation with British authorities, police said in a statement.
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hypothesis: Robert Redford is the founder of Sundance Film Festival. premise: Cooper has never lost sight of these goals, Redford continued. "He brings to the position an infectious enthusiasm as well as a deep understanding of the Sundance brand and culture... He is a natural choice of succession to lead the festival into the 21st century." Among his other accomplishments for Sundance are helping foster the development of New Frontier on Main program, a multimedia conjunction of film, music and other art forms, and helping boost the festival's Internet presence — through its official Web site (www.sundance.org/festival), an online version of the festival, as well as the Sundance Institute's agreements with iTunes and Netflix to showcase and distribute short films.
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hypothesis: Four people were injured by a grenade. 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.
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hypothesis: To the south is Gellert Hill, which features the 19th-century Citadel. premise: To the south of Castle Hill rises the higher Gellert Hill ( 771 feet ), a steep limestone escarpment overlooking the Danube, which provides a panoramic view of the whole city.
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hypothesis: Pretoria is located in Côte d'Ivoire. premise: South African President Thabo Mbeki, the main mediator in Côte d'Ivoire's peace process, said on Sunday that Pretoria is heightening its intervention in the West African nation to pave the way for elections later this year.
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hypothesis: The funeral procession had been directed to the UNDP headquarters in Baghdad, where signs denouncing Americans as "enemies of God," were seen. premise: The funeral procession headed to the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme in Baghdad, where funeral goers held banners denouncing the Americans as "Enemies of God."
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hypothesis: Male fertility may be affected by use of a mobile phones. premise: Startling new research into mobile phones claims they may reduce a man's sperm count by up to 30%.
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hypothesis: Randy Quevillon is employed at the University of South Dakota. premise: The capacity people have to adjust and make peace with a new situation, even if they feel vulnerable, is really remarkable, said Randy Quevillon, chair of the psychology department and the Disaster Mental Health Institute at the University of South Dakota.
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hypothesis: Anna Nobili became a nun in 2002. premise: Anna Nobili is no ordinary nun. The 38-year-old used to be a lap-dancer, and spent many years working in Italian nightclubs. She is now using her talents in a rather different way - for what she calls "The Holy Dance" in a performance on Tuesday evening at the Holy Cross in Jerusalem Basilica in Rome, in front of senior Catholic clerics including Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Vatican's Cultural Department. Miss Nobili told the BBC World Service that the transformation from podium lap dancer to nun happened gradually.
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hypothesis: Family Court cannot punish the guilty. premise: After trial, Family Court found defendant guilty of willfully violating the order of protection and sentenced him to six months incarceration.
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hypothesis: Democrats won the 2006 elections. premise: The Democrats' success in the 2006 elections means changes at the top in the House and Senate.
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hypothesis: Sony BMG sells protected CDs. premise: So far Sony BMG has not released a list of how many of its CDs are protected or how many have been sold.
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hypothesis: Spain's Basque party calls for the boycott of a parliament decision. premise: The outlawed Basque political party in Spain, Batasuna, called, on Monday, parties in the Basque Autonomous Government to boycott the parliament decision to ban it.
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hypothesis: Many US soldiers developed Gulf War illness after the Gulf War. premise: Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers from the first Gulf War are still suffering from severe symptoms that have been linked to what is now known as Gulf War illness, say veterans advocates.
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hypothesis: Iraq demands the lifting of the embargo and changes in the committee. premise: Aziz confirmed that Iraq's demands include "the lifting of the blockade and the restructuring of the espionage commission, including its Chairman, (Richard) Butler.
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hypothesis: The World Bank is criticized for its policies. premise: Often criticized and blamed for politically unpopular policies, and confronted with numerous setbacks, the World Bank is experiencing a difficult time with regard to which strategies to adopt, in particular in Africa.
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hypothesis: During the Civil War the government of the United States bought arms from Britain. premise: The British government did not initially purchase the weapon and civilian sales were modest. However the U.S. Civil War began in 1860 and the governments of both the United States and the Confederacy began purchasing arms in Britain.
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hypothesis: Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Commonwealth. premise: The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused. - BBC statement The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has apologised to Queen Elizabeth II and photographer, Annie Leibovitz, after a trailer for a documentary suggested she had walked out of a portrait sitting when the photographer asked her to remove her crown. The trailer shows a clip of the photographer telling the Queen, "I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so..."
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hypothesis: Jennifer Hawkins is Australia's 21-year-old beauty queen. premise: Jennifer Hawkins is the 21-year-old beauty queen from Australia.
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hypothesis: Saudi Arabia is a key U.S. ally. premise: Saudi Arabia, the biggest oil producer in the world, was once a supporter of Osama bin Laden and his associates who led attacks against the United States.
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hypothesis: Amatriciana is a sauce. 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.
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hypothesis: Ten missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI are uncovered in the report. premise: The report catalogues 10 missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI to uncover pieces of the September 11 plot.
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hypothesis: Eugene W. Weaver is the husband of Patricia Amy. premise: Patricia Amy Messier and Eugene W. Weaver were married May 28 at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church in North Palm Beach.
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hypothesis: UNIFIL is affiliated with the Belgian Minister of Defence. premise: Two Belgian soldiers, part of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, were wounded Friday after stepping on a cluster bomb during a mine-clearing operation in southern Lebanon. One of the two soldiers stepped on a cluster bomb while clearing a minefield near the village of Majdel Silim. Their injuries were "serious but not life-threatening", a UNIFIL spokesman said, however this was denied by the cabinet of the Belgian Minister of Defence, André Flahaut. One soldier was wounded at the neck, the second was wounded at the foot.
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hypothesis: The introduction of the euro has been opposed. 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.
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hypothesis: Ocean remote sensing is developed. premise: Scientists and engineers in the APL Space Department have contributed to ocean remote sensing science and technology for more than a quarter century.
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hypothesis: Lee Hsien Loong is friends with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. premise: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Thai Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai were among foreign dignitaries flying in for Endon's funeral later Thursday. Thousands of people filed past Endon's body, which lay in state wrapped in white linen on a table while Muslim clerics recited verses from the Quran.
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hypothesis: Child labor is widely used in Asia. premise: Worldwide, child labor is most prevalent in the agricultural sector, where children are widely used as day laborers. Working long hours, children working in agriculture are often exposed to harmful pesticides, dangerous machinery, backbreaking loads, and many other hazardous conditions.
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hypothesis: Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. premise: The solar system is much more complicated now, astronomers say, than in 1930 when Clyde Tombaugh added Pluto to the inventory of wandering lights circling the Sun.
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hypothesis: In 1611 the king and his court finally moved from Krakow ( Cracow ) to Warsaw, making it the capital of the Polish state. premise: In 1596 the Polish king decided to move the capital from Krakow to Warsaw, making Warsaw the most important city in Poland.
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hypothesis: Williams has a daughter called Matilda. premise: In addition to family, the memorial service was attended by actors and actresses who have worked with Ledger, including Cate Blanchett who starred with Ledger in the Bob Dylan bio-flick, I'm Not There. Blanchett spoke of the times she shared with Ledger in New York and Los Angeles. The Other speakers included his parents, sister and Neil Armfield, a director of Ledger's last Australian film, Candy. An emotional Williams, was wearing dark glasses and a white dress with black trim, she was not accompanied by her daughter Matilda. Williams walked in clutching the arm of Ledger's older sister, Kate.
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hypothesis: Brent Frei quits ceo position. premise: Brent Frei, the co-founder of midmarket CRM vendor Onyx Software Corp., plans to step down as chief executive and chairman.
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hypothesis: Adriana Lima is married to Marko Jaric. premise: Victoria's Secret supermodel Adriana Lima confirms to People that she secretly got married (to basketball player Marko Jaric) on Valentine's Day! JJ reported on their engagement in June of 2008. The pair eloped in Jackson Hole, Wyoming in a small, private civil ceremony. Adriana said, "We are so excited about our future together. And we are really looking forward to a big romantic wedding this summer with all of our friends and family." The happy couple will look to celebrate next in Adriana's native Brazil or Marko's native Serbia.
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hypothesis: There was a Chinook attack. premise: Attack helicopters, Chinooks, armoured vehicles, cranes and a fire engine encircled the group.
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hypothesis: The Economic Forecasting Center is located in Georgia. premise: But Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University, says the main issue ahead is higher inflation.
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hypothesis: China is a member of the U.N. Security Council. premise: Three of its five permanent members, France, Russia and China, are pushing the U.N. Security Council to lift the embargo on Iraq.
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hypothesis: Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens. premise: And this is a town that everybody agrees, law enforcement, Border Patrol, residents on both sides, is a staging area of illegal drugs and illegal aliens.
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hypothesis: People are likely to start smoking tobacco when young. premise: The report, released by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, compared substance abuse statistics from their latest survey, in 2004, with statistics collected in 2002. It was based on interviews of more than 135,000 people. Nationwide, the rate of underaged drinking remained basically unchanged, but in California, it rose from 15.28 percent of California children between 12 and 17-years-old who said they had consumed alcohol in the previous month in 2002, to 16.81 percent who said they had in 2004. Binge drinking, defined as drinking five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least one day in the past 30 days, was reported by 10.27 percent of kids in 2004, up from the 9.16 percent who said they binged in 2002.
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hypothesis: Humans existed 10,000 years ago. premise: The scientific community now generally agrees that between 5 and 8 million years ago, there lived in Africa a hominid which would ultimately give rise to the first hominids and later the members of the genus Homo.
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hypothesis: Infertile women are vital for successful child-rearing, according to the "grandmother hypothesis". premise: The so-called "grandmother hypothesis", based on studies of African hunter-gatherer groups, suggests that infertile women are vital for successful child-rearing despite being unable to produce children themselves.
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hypothesis: Michel Mayor is the discoverer of the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher. premise: Scientists have made two major discoveries in the search for other Earth-like planets. British astronomers say they have discovered the smallest known Earth-like exoplanet orbiting a living star called Gliese 581 e and also discovered that a nearby planet called Gliese 581 d, discovered in 2007, is in the much sought after 'habitable zone'. Astronomers also believe there is a possibility that 581 d could have liquid oceans on its surface, calling the find "extraordinary." "The Holy Grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone'," said astrophysicist at Switzerland's Geneva University, Michel Mayor. Astronomers say 581 e is 20.5 light years away from Earth and that it's roughly 1.9 times larger than Earth, making it the smallest exoplanet discovered to date. It was found using the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS).
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hypothesis: Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday. premise: An Israeli judicial inquiry has ruled out prosecuting the police officers who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during a violent demonstration in 2000.
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hypothesis: T.S. Eliot wrote "Animal Farm". premise: IT must rate as the literary snub of the 20th century. T S Eliot, one of Britain's greatest poets, rejected George Orwell's Animal Farm for publication on the grounds of its unconvincing Trotskyite politics. Eliot, a former director of Faber and Faber, the publisher, wrote his rejection in a highly critical letter in 1944, one of many private papers made available for the first time by his widow Valerie for a BBC documentary. When Orwell submitted his novel, an allegory on Stalin's dictatorship, Eliot praised its "good writing" and "fundamental integrity".
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hypothesis: Martha Stewart was convicted of lying about a stock trade and served five months in prison. premise: Martha Stewart, 64, is back, after serving five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a 2001 stock sale.
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hypothesis: Fiat, in particular, uses robots for inventory management. premise: As Fiat shows off its robot-controlled inventory stacks in glossy advertisements and IBM switches off the lights in its automated warehouse in Greenock, it is clear that this Cinderella operation has a new set of high-tech glad rags.
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hypothesis: Shareholders approved expansion for one year. premise: One year after shareholders approved a massive expansion in its pool of stock options, eBay is asking for more.
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hypothesis: APEC is the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. premise: It would force countries in the region to choose between the United States and Japan -- or maybe between Japan and China . And it would collapse whatever promise the newly born Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) holds as a vehicle to assure American commercial access to the booming Pacific markets . To risk all of this in the name of a flawed concept is foolish . This is not to deny the Administration 's understandable frustration with a persistently huge Japanese trade surplus.
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hypothesis: Ms Remhof had a history of drug problems. premise: Police were yesterday scouring Europe for a German couple who abandoned three small children in a pizzeria in the north-west Italian town of Aosta on Sunday evening and have not been seen since. The couple, Ina Caterina Remhof, 26, the mother of the children, and her partner, Sascha Schmidt, 24, brought the children, aged six, four and eight months, into the Il Capanno pizzeria. They took a table together and placed their orders like any other family of tourists, according to the restaurant's manager, Carmello Casella. But about 45 minutes later, while the children were still eating, the couple stood up and told Mr Casella that they were going outside for a smoke. When they failed to return the restaurant staff became worried and called the police.
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hypothesis: King Edward VIII abdictated in 1936. premise: Edward VIII shocked the world in 1936 when he gave up his throne to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson.
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hypothesis: 30 die in a bus collision in Uganda. premise: A bus collision with a truck in Uganda has resulted in at least 30 fatalities and has left a further 21 injured.
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hypothesis: A380 has only 58 seats. premise: Further evidence emerged on Wednesday of the severe downturn in the aviation sector as Emirates pulled its giant Airbus A380s off the Dubai to New York route. The airline blamed the weakening global economy for the decision, an embarrassing U-turn only eight months after its A380 services were launched with the New York route. Emirates' failure to make New York work with the A380 has raised concerns about the large number of the double-decker aircraft ordered by the carrier. It is the A380's largest customer and has ordered 58 of the 500-seat aircraft. It operates two to New York, one to Heathrow and one to Sydney.
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hypothesis: Cabrera and Cervantes are accused of having caused the Zaca Fire. premise: Two men have been charged with starting the Zaca Fire, the second-largest wildfire in the history of California. The fire is continuing to burn through the Los Padres National Forest, and has consumed a total of 240,000 acres, having started on July 4. However, the fire is now under control, and is expected to be contained by September 4. Jose Jesus Cabrera of Santa Ynez, 38, Santiago Iniguez Cervantes of Santa Maria, 46, and the company of Rancho La Laguna, whom they worked for, have all been charged with six counts of felony in relation to starting the fire.
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hypothesis: Oil prices rise. premise: Oil prices eased back from record high levels after Russia's justice ministry said embattled oil giant Yukos can continue oil production and sales.
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hypothesis: Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks. premise: Professional computer hackers from the secret services were brought into attempt to hack into the Government's internal secure communicationssystem, which was launched today.
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hypothesis: Charles de Gaulle died in 1970. premise: Genevieve de Gaulle-Anthonics, 81, niece of the late Charles de Gaulle, died in Paris on February 14, 2002. She joined the French resistance when the Germans occupied Paris.
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hypothesis: Teacher wins right to market Harry Potter. premise: Coronado High School English teacher Lori Rosales has read the Harry Potter books and sees them as educational and something that children can relate to because the stories are timeless.
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hypothesis: A plane carrying vacationers home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in western Venezuela after reporting engine problems, killing all 160 people on board, officials said. premise: A jet, carrying French Caribbean islanders home from a Panama vacation, crashed in rural Venezuela early Tuesday, after the pilot reported trouble with the engines.
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hypothesis: Stephen Hawking is a physicist. premise: Two prominent scientists have made guest appearances on the show, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist whose brilliance has been compared with Einstein's.
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hypothesis: The pills were commercialized by major retailers. premise: The pills were sold under store brands by Wal-Mart, CVS, Safeway and more than 120 other major retailers, the Food and Drug Administration said.
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hypothesis: Liu Jianchao is an employee of China's foreign ministry. premise: China immediately expressed regret over his decision and suggested that "ulterior motives" may be at play. "It is understandable if some people do not understand the Chinese government policy on Darfur, but I am afraid that some people may have ulterior motives, and this we cannot accept... China is also concerned about the humanitarian situation in Darfur. [But] empty rhetoric will not help. We hope that relevant people will be more pragmatic," said Liu Jianchao, the Deputy-Director General of the Information Department in China's foreign ministry.
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hypothesis: The World Bank is criticized for activities. premise: Geithner criticized the report's findings on the World Bank, including a commission recommendation that the Bank stop lending to emerging market economies, concentrate its resources on the poorest countries and shift the IFI's concessional assistance from loans to grants.
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hypothesis: Ostriches bury their heads in the sand. premise: Ostriches put their heads into the sand to avoid the wind.
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hypothesis: The Kakhovskaya Line was built in 1995. premise: The Kakhovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Currently it is the only line that exists outside the ring. It is the shortest line in Moscow. Although the line was formed in 1995, the stations date to 1969 when they were opened as part of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line.
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646
hypothesis: Finland is the European country with the highest birth rate. premise: For a western European country, the birth rate in Finland is high.
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203
hypothesis: Philip Morris made market gains in Russia. premise: Philip Morris cited strong volume gains in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, central and eastern Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Brazil.
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1,283
hypothesis: La Scala opera house is located in Milan, Italy. premise: Soprano's Square: Milan, Italy, home of the famed La Scala opera house, honored soprano Maria Callas on Wednesday when it renamed a new square after the diva.
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2,436
hypothesis: Kozlowski and Swartz, who were found guilty of stealing more than $150 million from the company, were each sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison. premise: The men, who will be able to apply for parole to avoid serving the full 25 years, were immediately taken into custody after the sentencing and whisked out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
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1,699
hypothesis: Microsoft Windows is an operating system. premise: Jackson also found the company maintained its Windows monopoly by setting deals with computer makers to promote Microsoft products over those from rival software makers.
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