Ruben Mordechai Wolhandler commited on
Commit
fc43519
1 Parent(s): 31790b2

Add application file

Browse files
This view is limited to 50 files because it contains too many changes.   See raw diff
Files changed (50) hide show
  1. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/README.md +65 -0
  2. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/added_tokens.json +4 -0
  3. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/all_results.json +28 -0
  4. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/config.json +74 -0
  5. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/eval_results.json +13 -0
  6. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/generated_predictions.txt +500 -0
  7. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/merges.txt +0 -0
  8. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/predict_results.json +12 -0
  9. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/pytorch_model.bin +3 -0
  10. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/special_tokens_map.json +19 -0
  11. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/tokenizer.json +0 -0
  12. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/tokenizer_config.json +16 -0
  13. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/train_results.json +8 -0
  14. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/trainer_state.json +64 -0
  15. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/training_args.bin +3 -0
  16. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/vocab.json +0 -0
  17. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/added_tokens.json +4 -0
  18. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/all_results.json +1 -0
  19. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/config.json +74 -0
  20. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/merges.txt +0 -0
  21. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/pytorch_model.bin +3 -0
  22. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/special_tokens_map.json +19 -0
  23. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/tokenizer.json +0 -0
  24. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/tokenizer_config.json +16 -0
  25. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/vocab.json +0 -0
  26. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/README.md +65 -0
  27. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/added_tokens.json +4 -0
  28. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/all_results.json +28 -0
  29. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/config.json +74 -0
  30. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/eval_results.json +13 -0
  31. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/generated_predictions.txt +500 -0
  32. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/merges.txt +0 -0
  33. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/predict_results.json +12 -0
  34. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/pytorch_model.bin +3 -0
  35. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/special_tokens_map.json +19 -0
  36. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/tokenizer.json +0 -0
  37. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/tokenizer_config.json +16 -0
  38. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/train_results.json +8 -0
  39. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/trainer_state.json +38 -0
  40. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/training_args.bin +3 -0
  41. DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/vocab.json +0 -0
  42. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/test.json +0 -0
  43. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/test.source +0 -0
  44. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/test.target +500 -0
  45. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/train.json +0 -0
  46. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/train.source +0 -0
  47. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/train.target +300 -0
  48. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/val.json +170 -0
  49. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/val.source +170 -0
  50. DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/val.target +170 -0
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/README.md ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ ---
2
+ license: apache-2.0
3
+ tags:
4
+ - generated_from_trainer
5
+ metrics:
6
+ - rouge
7
+ model-index:
8
+ - name: sent_window_0_clusters
9
+ results: []
10
+ ---
11
+
12
+ <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You
13
+ should probably proofread and complete it, then remove this comment. -->
14
+
15
+ # sent_window_0_clusters
16
+
17
+ This model is a fine-tuned version of [facebook/bart-large](https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large) on an unknown dataset.
18
+ It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
19
+ - Loss: 3.8197
20
+ - Rouge1: 23.3301
21
+ - Rouge2: 8.2071
22
+ - Rougel: 20.0055
23
+ - Rougelsum: 19.8947
24
+ - Gen Len: 20.0824
25
+
26
+ ## Model description
27
+
28
+ More information needed
29
+
30
+ ## Intended uses & limitations
31
+
32
+ More information needed
33
+
34
+ ## Training and evaluation data
35
+
36
+ More information needed
37
+
38
+ ## Training procedure
39
+
40
+ ### Training hyperparameters
41
+
42
+ The following hyperparameters were used during training:
43
+ - learning_rate: 3e-05
44
+ - train_batch_size: 16
45
+ - eval_batch_size: 16
46
+ - seed: 42
47
+ - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
48
+ - lr_scheduler_type: linear
49
+ - num_epochs: 10.0
50
+
51
+ ### Training results
52
+
53
+ | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Rouge1 | Rouge2 | Rougel | Rougelsum | Gen Len |
54
+ |:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:-------:|:------:|:-------:|:---------:|:-------:|
55
+ | No log | 2.63 | 50 | 3.1942 | 21.607 | 7.5625 | 18.7029 | 18.6241 | 17.4529 |
56
+ | No log | 5.26 | 100 | 3.6483 | 22.0535 | 7.7818 | 19.0685 | 18.8775 | 16.0824 |
57
+ | No log | 7.89 | 150 | 3.6888 | 21.9962 | 7.6701 | 19.021 | 18.9084 | 17.5471 |
58
+
59
+
60
+ ### Framework versions
61
+
62
+ - Transformers 4.25.0.dev0
63
+ - Pytorch 1.13.0+cu117
64
+ - Datasets 2.7.1
65
+ - Tokenizers 0.13.2
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/added_tokens.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "</h>": 50266,
3
+ "<h>": 50265
4
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/all_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "epoch": 10.0,
3
+ "eval_gen_len": 20.08235294117647,
4
+ "eval_loss": 3.819733142852783,
5
+ "eval_rouge1": 23.3301,
6
+ "eval_rouge2": 8.2071,
7
+ "eval_rougeL": 20.0055,
8
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 19.8947,
9
+ "eval_runtime": 19.972,
10
+ "eval_samples": 170,
11
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 8.512,
12
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.551,
13
+ "predict_gen_len": 19.546,
14
+ "predict_loss": 3.6777491569519043,
15
+ "predict_rouge1": 29.1795,
16
+ "predict_rouge2": 10.6905,
17
+ "predict_rougeL": 25.2253,
18
+ "predict_rougeLsum": 25.2077,
19
+ "predict_runtime": 60.3206,
20
+ "predict_samples": 500,
21
+ "predict_samples_per_second": 8.289,
22
+ "predict_steps_per_second": 0.53,
23
+ "train_loss": 1.333928078099301,
24
+ "train_runtime": 339.2116,
25
+ "train_samples": 300,
26
+ "train_samples_per_second": 8.844,
27
+ "train_steps_per_second": 0.56
28
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/config.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "_name_or_path": "facebook/bart-large",
3
+ "activation_dropout": 0.1,
4
+ "activation_function": "gelu",
5
+ "add_bias_logits": false,
6
+ "add_final_layer_norm": false,
7
+ "architectures": [
8
+ "BartForConditionalGeneration"
9
+ ],
10
+ "attention_dropout": 0.1,
11
+ "bos_token_id": 0,
12
+ "classif_dropout": 0.1,
13
+ "classifier_dropout": 0.0,
14
+ "d_model": 1024,
15
+ "decoder_attention_heads": 16,
16
+ "decoder_ffn_dim": 4096,
17
+ "decoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
18
+ "decoder_layers": 12,
19
+ "decoder_start_token_id": 2,
20
+ "dropout": 0.1,
21
+ "early_stopping": true,
22
+ "encoder_attention_heads": 16,
23
+ "encoder_ffn_dim": 4096,
24
+ "encoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
25
+ "encoder_layers": 12,
26
+ "eos_token_id": 2,
27
+ "forced_bos_token_id": 0,
28
+ "forced_eos_token_id": 2,
29
+ "gradient_checkpointing": false,
30
+ "id2label": {
31
+ "0": "LABEL_0",
32
+ "1": "LABEL_1",
33
+ "2": "LABEL_2"
34
+ },
35
+ "init_std": 0.02,
36
+ "is_encoder_decoder": true,
37
+ "label2id": {
38
+ "LABEL_0": 0,
39
+ "LABEL_1": 1,
40
+ "LABEL_2": 2
41
+ },
42
+ "max_position_embeddings": 1024,
43
+ "model_type": "bart",
44
+ "no_repeat_ngram_size": 3,
45
+ "normalize_before": false,
46
+ "num_beams": 4,
47
+ "num_hidden_layers": 12,
48
+ "pad_token_id": 1,
49
+ "scale_embedding": false,
50
+ "task_specific_params": {
51
+ "summarization": {
52
+ "length_penalty": 1.0,
53
+ "max_length": 128,
54
+ "min_length": 12,
55
+ "num_beams": 4
56
+ },
57
+ "summarization_cnn": {
58
+ "length_penalty": 2.0,
59
+ "max_length": 142,
60
+ "min_length": 56,
61
+ "num_beams": 4
62
+ },
63
+ "summarization_xsum": {
64
+ "length_penalty": 1.0,
65
+ "max_length": 62,
66
+ "min_length": 11,
67
+ "num_beams": 6
68
+ }
69
+ },
70
+ "torch_dtype": "float32",
71
+ "transformers_version": "4.25.0.dev0",
72
+ "use_cache": true,
73
+ "vocab_size": 50267
74
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/eval_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "epoch": 10.0,
3
+ "eval_gen_len": 20.08235294117647,
4
+ "eval_loss": 3.819733142852783,
5
+ "eval_rouge1": 23.3301,
6
+ "eval_rouge2": 8.2071,
7
+ "eval_rougeL": 20.0055,
8
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 19.8947,
9
+ "eval_runtime": 19.972,
10
+ "eval_samples": 170,
11
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 8.512,
12
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.551
13
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/generated_predictions.txt ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,500 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ After three months of political deadlock Hun Sen and opposition leader Prince Ranariddh agreed to a coalition
2
+ Opposition leaders Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy have refused to negotiate with Prime Minister Hun Sen.
3
+ The Cambodian People's Party won a decisive victory in elections in July despite accusations of widespread intimidation and fraud.
4
+ Negotiations to establish a new government collapsed when Prime Minister Hun Sen refused to attend.
5
+ Rainsy fled to the U.N. office in September to avoid arrest.
6
+ Hun Sen overthrew Ranariddh in a coup last year.
7
+ The opposition has accused the ruling party of widespread fraud and intimidation.
8
+ The two main opposition parties refused to enter into a coalition with Hun Sen until their allegations of election fraud have been thoroughly investigated.
9
+ The two main political parties agreed to form a new government with strongman Hun Sen as the only candidate.
10
+ Cambodian leader Hun Sen rejected the opposition's demand for talks outside the country.
11
+ Hurricane Mitch bringing torrential rains, flooding, and killing scores of people.
12
+ At least 231 deaths have been blamed on Hurricane Mitch in Honduras
13
+ Hurricane Mitch churning through the northwest Caribbean
14
+ Torrential rains and flooding swept through El Salvador and Guatemala killing scores of people.
15
+ Hurricane Georges packing winds near the Honduran coast for several days.
16
+ Mitch drifted to just off the coast of Honduras for several days
17
+ Clinton requested a ``global relief effort'' to help Central America
18
+ Clinton to provide aid
19
+ More than 200 towns and villages were isolated by the storm.
20
+ Hurricane Mitch bringing torrential rains, flooding, and killing scores of people.
21
+ Pinochet was arrested in London on October 16
22
+ Pinochet was charged with genocide, terrorism and torture.
23
+ Pinochet was arrested in London on October 16
24
+ Pinochet's wife appealing for his extradition.
25
+ Pinochet was in London for back surgery.
26
+ Pinochet was charged with murdering thousands, including many Spaniards.
27
+ Pinochet was in London for back surgery.
28
+ Switzerland has requested Pinochet's extradition.
29
+ Chile protested that Pinochet had diplomatic immunity.
30
+ Chile arguing that Pinochet had diplomatic immunity
31
+ the suspected mastermind of the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.
32
+ Osama bin Laden accused of masterminding the U.S. embassies bombings in Tanzania and Kenya
33
+ Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan
34
+ the terrorist group behind the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
35
+ a conspiracy to attack U.S. targets around the world
36
+ The blast at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi killed 213 people, 12 of them Americans.
37
+ The Taliban rule about 90 percent of Afghanistan
38
+ US prosecutors charged bin Laden with murder and using weapons of mass destruction.
39
+ The Taliban's chief justice accused the United States of looking for an ``excuse'' to attack Afghanistan.
40
+ U.S. officials have obtained new evidence linking the owner of a Sudanese factory to terrorist group Osama bin Laden.
41
+ More than 220 National Basketball Association players with guaranteed contracts will find out Monday whether they are to be paid during the lockout.
42
+ the National Football League and Major League Baseball in having lost games to a labor dispute.
43
+ The NBA has already canceled the first two weeks of the regular season because of the labor dispute.
44
+ The National Basketball Association has canceled all of its preseason games.
45
+ The NBA's deputy commissioner announced the cancellation after nearly three and a half hours of meetings.
46
+ The owners will be liable for about $800 million in guaranteed salaries.
47
+ The owners will be liable for about $800 million in guaranteed salaries
48
+ The NBA owners voted unanimously to cancel 99 games in November because of the dispute with the players association.
49
+ the players association proposed a tax system instead of a hard salary cap
50
+ The league already has sued the players over Feerick's jurisdiction.
51
+ The Congolese rebels have taken their two-month campaign to oust President Laurent Kabila
52
+ Kabila accuses Rwanda and Uganda of abetting the rebel activity.
53
+ Kabila accuses his opponents of mismanagement, corruption and sowing dissent among Congo's 400 tribes.
54
+ rebels shot down a Congolese jet ferrying 40 government soldiers.
55
+ The rebels are a coalition of ethnic Tutsis, disenchanted members of the army and political opponents of President Laurent Kab
56
+ the rebels were apparently meeting stiff resistance.
57
+ rebels were stopped at the outskirts of the capital Kinshasa by troops from Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia.
58
+ rebels attacked a village in western Uganda killing six civilians.
59
+ rebels attacked an airbase in eastern Congo
60
+ Fighting in Kindu, near the Elila River, died down after rebels fired a barrage of artillery into the government-held quarters and
61
+ Clinton plans to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
62
+ Anwar was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.
63
+ Anwar was charged with abusing his powers
64
+ Anwar was charged with corruption and sexual misconduct.
65
+ Philippines President Estrada considering not attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit because of Anwar Ibrahim's arrest
66
+ APEC members Brunei, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
67
+ Malaysia's economic woes were exacerbated by the imposition of capital controls in 1998.
68
+ Russia, Vietnam and Peru will also join in November.
69
+ The summit is to take place on Nov. 17-18.
70
+ Malaysia's former strongman Mahathir Mohamad to be the new Prime Minister.
71
+ A car rigged with explosives blew up Friday morning in a Jerusalem market killing two assailants and wounding 21 Israelis.
72
+ A car bomb exploded near a Jerusalem market Friday killing the bombers and injuring 21 Israelis.
73
+ The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
74
+ Palestinian security sources and the families of the dead bombers identified them as Islamic Jihad activists.
75
+ A car bomb exploded near a busy Jerusalem market Friday killing the bombers and wounding 21 Israelis.
76
+ The radical group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
77
+ A defiant Netanyahu vowed to keep building Jewish neighborhoods throughout Jerusalem, including at a controversial site in the traditionally Arab sector of the city.
78
+ A car bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market Friday killing the bombers and wounding 21 Israelis.
79
+ The two bombers who carried out Friday's attack were identified as members of Islamic Holy War from West Bank villages under Israeli security control.
80
+ A car bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market killing the bombers and wounding 24 others.
81
+ Anwar was charged with illegal homosexual acts and corruption.
82
+ Anwar was fired by Prime Minister Mahathir on Sept. 2 after the two differed on economic policy.
83
+ Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad fired Deputy Premier Anwar Ibrahim on Sept. 2
84
+ Mahathir had groomed Anwar as his successor.
85
+ Anwar to stand trial Nov. 2 on corruption charges.
86
+ Mahathir fired Anwar on Sept. 2 from his posts as deputy prime minister and finance minister
87
+ Anwar Ibrahim, was arrested on Sept. 20 under the Internal Security Act
88
+ The former deputy-premier pleaded innocent to all charges.
89
+ Mahathir Mohamad called for an investigation.
90
+ He was arrested Sept. 20.
91
+ NATO is preparing air raids to force Milosevic's hand.
92
+ NATO airstrikes are inevitable unless Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic takes decisive action soon.
93
+ Yugoslavia faces imminent NATO attack.
94
+ the capacity for its resumption is there.
95
+ The U.S. negotiated a peace agreement with Serbs and Croats to end the Bosnian war.
96
+ The U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke said the situation in Kosovo was as bad now as two weeks ago.
97
+ President Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia has withdrawn most of his troops from Kosovo.
98
+ Holbrooke is en route to Belgrade for a meeting with Milosevic.
99
+ Up to 120 Yugoslavian armored vehicles, including tanks, have been pulled out.
100
+ Holbrooke said he would tell Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic of the situation.
101
+ Three years of floods and drought devastated North Korea's collective farming and planned economy.
102
+ Two-thirds of North Korean children under seven years of age were stunted by malnutrition.
103
+ North Korea is entering its fourth winter of chronic food shortages with its people malnourished and at risk of dying from diseases
104
+ Famine-threatened North Korea's harvest will be no better this year than last and
105
+ The United Nations has reported that 30 percent of North Korean children under age 2 are acutely malnourished and 67 percent of
106
+ North Korea needs 4.5 million to 5 million tons of grain to feed its 23 million people
107
+ North Korea needs a minimum 4.5 million tons of grain to feed its 23 million people, but managed last year to harvest just 2
108
+ A faltering economy in Cambodia caused similar levels of malnutrition in children
109
+ The researchers found that severe malnutrition is widespread among toddlers and stunted growth in some newborns.
110
+ The Red Cross distributed food and drinks to those in need.
111
+ Bangkok to attract more than 10,000 athletes from 43 nations.
112
+ Iran's equestrian team will not be able to compete in the Asian Games because of insufficient veterinary care.
113
+ Saudi Arabia to send a small team
114
+ India and Pakistan clashed during a snooker match.
115
+ the organizing committees from the 43 nations competing in the games.
116
+ Thai police have detained more than 300 beggars, most from neighboring countries.
117
+ A snooker game between longtime Asian rivals India and Pakistan led to a flareup of tempers
118
+ Asian Games organizers dismiss reports that a sports complex would not be completed on time.
119
+ Iran's equestrian team will not compete in the Asian Games due to lack of suitable horses.
120
+ Saudi Arabia abruptly pulled out of the Asian Games following allegations that its athletes had been involved in a sex scandal.
121
+ Three prominent dissidents working to establish the new party
122
+ Qin and Wang were charged with inciting subversion
123
+ Communist officials charged Wang with inciting subversion
124
+ Yao Zhenxian, a prominent figure in the China Democracy Party
125
+ The U.S. has accused Xu Wenli of "activities damaging to national security
126
+ Qin and Xu were suspected of involvement in activities damaging to national security
127
+ Qin Yongmin was arrested on November 30.
128
+ Two prominent dissidents working to establish the new party
129
+ At least ten dissidents have been arrested in connection with Wang's trial.
130
+ China signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in October
131
+ The Republicans' 223-211 majority was reduced to a mere six votes with one independent.
132
+ Republicans suffered a net loss of five seats in the House
133
+ The only witness Republicans were likely to call would be independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
134
+ Republicans blamed each other for the Democratic gains.
135
+ The Democratic surge marked the first time since 1934 that the president's party had gained seats in a midterm election.
136
+ the president's party had gained seats in a midterm election
137
+ Clinton's affair with Lewinsky dominated the political scene in 1998.
138
+ Republicans controlled the House until they captured it again in 1994.
139
+ House Republicans are to vote by secret ballot for their leaders.
140
+ The House Judiciary Committee is considering impeaching President Clinton for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice.
141
+ AOL to acquire Netscape Communications
142
+ AOL to acquire Netscape Communications for $4 billion
143
+ Microsoft to acquire AOL and Sun Microsystems
144
+ Microsoft lawyers argued that the proposed acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp. by America Online seriously undermined the government's antitrust suit against the software giant
145
+ The outcome of the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft is uncertain.
146
+ AOL to acquire Netscape
147
+ Netscape to help companies open and operate online stores
148
+ a major business in offering them end-to-end solution.
149
+ Microsoft bundled its browser with the Windows operating system.
150
+ Microsoft to acquire Netscape
151
+ to prohibit Russians from buying U.S. dollars and other foreign currencies.
152
+ Russia's new prime minister picked an unusual way to reassure the nation
153
+ After two weeks of deliberations he announced that he still had no plan to rescue the country from its economic crisis.
154
+ Ukraine's economy has been hurt by the financial crisis in neighboring Russia.
155
+ Ukrainians withdrawing billions of dollars from their bank accounts.
156
+ The Fed cut rates in response to the economic troubles in Asia and Russia.
157
+ The United States disappointed by the economic confusion within the new Russian government of Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov
158
+ the economic crisis would not end the government's program of privatizing state property.
159
+ Russian President Boris Yeltsin would respond strongly to any restriction on foreign currency purchases.
160
+ Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said there was no program.
161
+ Turkey massed troops near its Syrian border.
162
+ Lebanon denies harboring Kurdish rebels.
163
+ Turkey accuses Syria of harboring Kurdish rebels.
164
+ Syria denies the allegation.
165
+ Turkey accuses Syria of abetting Kurdish rebel activity in Turkey
166
+ Tensions between Turkey and Syria have escalated recently.
167
+ Turkish jets buzzed the Syrian border.
168
+ Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plans to visit Turkey later this week.
169
+ Turkey has warned that it will not allow Syria to continue sheltering Kurdish rebels.
170
+ Ankara has sent troops to its border with Syria.
171
+ High winds and huge seas smash into the remnants of the 115-boat fleet.
172
+ Two crew members died and three others remain missing.
173
+ Three yachts swept off the Sword of Orion when the boat rolled in wild seas on Sunday night.
174
+ The yacht, Endurance, was halfway across Bass Strait when it overturned.
175
+ A police helicopter rescued a yachtsman swept overboard when the Victorian yacht Kingurra was rolled over
176
+ the injuries suffered by surviving crewmen.
177
+ Three yachts remain missing and rescue resources were stretched to the limit.
178
+ The missing boats are veteran cutter Winston Churchill and challenger B-52
179
+ The missing boats are B-52 and Solo Globe Challenger.
180
+ The yacht, Endurance, was halfway across Bass Strait when it overturned.
181
+ the Russian-built Zarya control module and the made-in-America Unity chamber had ever touched.
182
+ It looked to be a perfect fit.
183
+ first time such a ``blind'' docking had ever been attempted.
184
+ The first two modules of the International Space Station were attached by the shuttle Endeavour on Sunday.
185
+ The 240-mile-high construction job began two hours earlier with Nancy Currie's capture of Zarya (Russian for Sunrise)
186
+ The two station pieces, together measuring about 77 feet from end to end and having a combined mass of 70,000 pounds
187
+ We have capture of Zarya
188
+ Then came the hard part: stacking the two giant cylinders in the cargo bay.
189
+ When Cabana was sure she had it, she fired Endeavour's thrusters.
190
+ Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station on Sunday, creating a seven-story tower in
191
+ The 11 countries adopting the euro will do so on January 1.
192
+ The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday cut its key interest rates to 3 percent.
193
+ The euro was created in 1999 as a result of an agreement between 11 European countries to establish a common currency.
194
+ The new European Central Bank will set monetary policy.
195
+ The European Central Bank has kept interest rates low to encourage economic growth and combat unemployment.
196
+ The European Central Bank chief Wim Duisenberg has suggested that governments should reform rigid labor markets to create jobs.
197
+ The London Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange will join forces to create a pan-European stock market.
198
+ The global economy contracted in 2016 as a result of the euro zone's economic woes.
199
+ The European Union plans to create a common currency after Britain leaves the bloc.
200
+ The annual inflation rate in the 11 nations that use the euro fell to 0.9 percent in November
201
+ Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975
202
+ Indonesia has killed one East Timorese and wounded 22 others.
203
+ Over 40,000 East Timorese were killed by Japanese soldiers for protecting Australian commandos during World War II.
204
+ Indonesia killed one East Timorese and wounded 22 others.
205
+ Portugal suspended U.N.-sponsored talks with Indonesia following reports of a massacre of dozens of East Timorese rebels.
206
+ The attack took place Tuesday near Cailaco in East Timor
207
+ Indonesia has been accused of human rights abuses in East Timor
208
+ East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975
209
+ the elite commando units accused of atrocities in East Timor.
210
+ Indonesia has been accused of atrocities in East Timor
211
+ Portugal's Jose Saramago was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
212
+ the first Portuguese-language author to win the prestigious prize.
213
+ Carter has repeatedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his consistent and wide-ranging peace efforts.
214
+ The three American researchers discovered that nitric oxide acts as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
215
+ The Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday.
216
+ Nitric oxide is a common air pollutant.
217
+ The prize was announced at a ceremony in New York on November 3, 1998.
218
+ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded annually to the most promising scientists in that field.
219
+ Portugal's Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work
220
+ The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Sadat and Begin for signing the Camp David peace accords.
221
+ Ariel Sharon's appointment as Israeli foreign minister serves as a "bullet of mercy'' for the Middle East peace process.
222
+ Ariel Sharon was named Israel's new foreign minister on Friday
223
+ An Israeli tribunal found him indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees at two Beirut camps.
224
+ Netanyahu named Sharon as his new foreign minister.
225
+ Many Arabs know Sharon for his role in Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
226
+ the peace process has stopped on all tracks.
227
+ the Golan Heights which Israel captured in 1967
228
+ Since 1967 Israel has occupied the Golan Heights.
229
+ Those betting on Israel changing its anti-peace stand
230
+ An Israeli tribunal looking into the invasion found him indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees by Christian Lebanese militiamen
231
+ Swiss IOC executive board member Marc Hodler has accused the International Olympic Committee of widespread corruption.
232
+ The IOC has begun investigating possible bribery by bidding cities.
233
+ the Salt Lake bid committee received nearly 400,000 in scholarships from relatives of IOC members.
234
+ any IOC member found to have accepted bribes
235
+ The International Olympic Committee has apologized for alleged voting irregularities in the 1996 Atlanta Games, 2000 Sydney Olympics and 2002 Salt Lake Games.
236
+ Four IOC members, including one IOC member, were allegedly involved in vote-buying.
237
+ the scholarship fund was described as ``humanitarian aid'' by Salt Lake officials
238
+ IOC executive board member Marc Hodler accused Salt Lake City of using the $500,000 scholarship fund as a bribe
239
+ Nagano officials deny bribing officials to win the right to host the 1998 Winter Olympics.
240
+ The senior Olympic official accusing the IOC of widespread corruption
241
+ Israel retains control over Gaza airspace and security over arriving passengers and cargo.
242
+ Israeli officials delayed two flights over security concerns.
243
+ An Egypt Air plane was the first to land at the airport.
244
+ Palestinian airport workers refused to allow Israeli security officials to check the identity of passengers.
245
+ Israel retains control over Gaza airspace and security over arriving passengers and cargo.
246
+ Egypt's first plane to land would be carrying health minister and several doctors bearing medical supplies as gifts.
247
+ The accords brokered by U.S. President Clinton to establish an independent Palestinian state
248
+ Since Wye Israel has accused the Palestinians of failing to contain anti-Israel violence.
249
+ Since Wye, Israel and Palestine have accused one another of reneging on agreements
250
+ An agreement to release Palestinians jailed for anti-Israel activities.
251
+ The U.N. imposed international air travel sanctions on Libya in 1992 in an effort to force their extradition.
252
+ the two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner that killed 270 people.
253
+ The U.N. imposed international air travel sanctions on Libya in 1992 to force Gadhafi's extradition.
254
+ The 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie killed 270 people and injured over 170.
255
+ Annan hopes to secure an arrangement for bringing the suspects to trial in the "not too distant future".
256
+ The two suspects would be tried in the Netherlands by Scottish judges under Scottish law.
257
+ a Pan Am jetliner exploded over the Scottish village of Lockerbie killing 270 people.
258
+ Since 1992 Libya has been under U.N. sanctions for refusing to hand over the suspects.
259
+ Annan hopes an arrangement for bringing two suspects to trial in the bombing of a Pan Am airliner could be secured in the not too
260
+ Gadhafi injured his hip while exercising.
261
+ Turkey has asked for Ocalan's extradition.
262
+ Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is believed to be in Turkey.
263
+ Turkey considers Ocalan a terrorist and its most-wanted criminal.
264
+ Rescuers arrested Ocalan as soon as he stepped off the plane from Russia.
265
+ a number of terrorism-related charges which could carry the death penalty.
266
+ the arrested Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan.
267
+ The Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) fought for autonomy in Turkey since 1984
268
+ Kurds protested in Italy against Ocalan's arrest.
269
+ Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in Rome on October 25.
270
+ Kurds in Italy, Germany, Austria and Romania launched protests and hunger strikes in fervent support of Ocalan.
271
+ Exxon and Mobil Corp. are in merger talks.
272
+ Negotiations with Exxon Mobil to combine would create the world's largest oil company
273
+ Low oil prices and the high cost of exploration are squeezing energy companies.
274
+ Standard Oil of New Jersey and Vacuum Oil.
275
+ British Petroleum to acquire Amoco for $48.2 billion
276
+ The boards of Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. are considering a merger that would create the world's largest oil company
277
+ Arrears are forcing Big Oil to merge, as Exxon and Mobil are doing.
278
+ The two companies would create the largest U.S. company by revenue.
279
+ The two companies would create the largest U.S. company in terms of revenue.
280
+ Oil prices have plunged to levels last seen in the mid-1980s
281
+ Clinton was impeached on November 9, 1998 for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with extramarital affairs
282
+ House Speaker Robert Livingston abruptly announced that he would not be re-elected as speaker following revelations that he had had several extram
283
+ Clinton urged Livingston to reconsider.
284
+ The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to impeach President Clinton for lying about his sexual indiscretions.
285
+ House Speaker Robert Livingston abruptly announced he would not be re-elected after having adulterous affairs.
286
+ The House impeached President Clinton for perjury on Saturday
287
+ Clinton was facing impeachment by the House Judiciary Committee.
288
+ Clinton refused to resign.
289
+ The House impeached President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice.
290
+ The House impeached President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice.
291
+ the Russian-built Zarya control module and the made-in-America Unity chamber had ever touched.
292
+ A Russian Proton booster lifted the first part of the International Space Station (ISS) into orbit Friday.
293
+ The space shuttle Endeavour is to rendezvous with Zarya and attach the two units.
294
+ The Russian Zarya spacecraft was the first to orbit the International Space Station.
295
+ The first two building blocks of the International Space Station were attached to Endeavour on Sunday.
296
+ The International Space Station (ISS) was completed after a flawless launch on October 26.
297
+ The station is expected to cost at least $40 billion.
298
+ Zarya to fly alone for two weeks before rendezvous with the American space shuttle Endeavour.
299
+ The 16-nation International Space Station (ISS) will consist of more than 100 elements.
300
+ After a delay of more than a year the first Russian-built module of the International Space Station was ready to be launched.
301
+ Brazilian officials expect an IMF bailout package of at least 30 billion dollars.
302
+ Brazilian President Cardoso is preparing an emergency program of spending cuts and tax increases
303
+ the financial crisis buffeting developing nations for more than a year.
304
+ a collapse of Brazil would worsen financial instability throughout the hemisphere.
305
+ The IMF hoped that a strong economic recovery would restore investor confidence in Brazil
306
+ the belt-tightening austerity package newly reelected President Fernando Henrique Cardoso is expected to announce Tuesday.
307
+ The reforms would help Brazil qualify for an International Monetary Fund rescue package of at least 30 billion dollars.
308
+ President Fernando Henrique Cardoso is telling government workers that there will be no more free lunches.
309
+ The United States is preparing to provide at least $30 billion in emergency loans to Brazil and other Latin American countries.
310
+ Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso to unveil a deficit-cutting plan next week.
311
+ The U.S. and North Korea are to resume talks about an underground North Korean nuclear weapons site.
312
+ Clinton acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials are not yet certain that the suspicious underground construction project in North Korea is nuclear related.
313
+ The North Koreans deny that the complex is intended to be used for nuclear weapons.
314
+ U.S. officials were rebuffed in their request to see the suspicious site.
315
+ the North risks closing the door on cooperation if it refuses a U.S. inspection of the site.
316
+ A South Korean lawmaker said that communist North Korea could be producing plutonium and has more secret underground nuclear facilities than already feared.
317
+ Clinton won South Korea's support for confronting North Korea over a suspected nuclear site
318
+ North Korea has demanded that the United States pay hundreds of millions of dollars for the right to inspect a huge underground center
319
+ President Kim Dae-jung pledged to ``spare no effort in supporting the U.S. endeavor''.
320
+ He called for full access for U.S. inspectors at a North Korean underground facility
321
+ An endorsement by the group could prove important in swinging voters to D'Amato in a tight race.
322
+ He likened homosexuality to kleptomania.
323
+ the group is most likely to endorse D'Amato.
324
+ White House officials and gay Democrats are concerned that the group will endorse D'Amato.
325
+ They would probably make an endorsement by Friday.
326
+ Senator Voinovich is barred from seeking a third term.
327
+ a Democrat who is retiring.
328
+ That has not prevented Voinovich's Democratic opponent, Mary Boyle from mounting a strong campaign.
329
+ The group has been searching for allies among the Senate Republican majority.
330
+ The group has been searching for allies among the Senate Republican majority and D'Amato's recent record on gay issues
331
+ Jubilation erupted among Bosnian Serbs as the Yugoslavian war crimes tribunal cleared a Muslim commander of war crimes against Bos
332
+ The Yugoslavian tribunal cleared Bosnian Army commander Zejnil Delalic of responsibility for atrocities at a Bosnian government-run prison
333
+ The U.N. tribunal convicted camp commander Zdravko Mucic of 11 war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Con
334
+ The U.N. tribunal convicted camp commander Zdravko Mucic of 11 war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Con
335
+ He was sentenced to 20 years.
336
+ At least 14 prisoners were killed in 1992.
337
+ The Yugoslavian tribunal convicted three of war crimes against Bosnian Serbs.
338
+ a Bosnian Serb general charged with genocide.
339
+ the face of genocide was Goran Jelisic.
340
+ Jelisic was charged with genocide and terrorism.
341
+ Clinton plans to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the Gaza Strip.
342
+ Clinton's visit to the region is fomenting more unrest.
343
+ the PLO's founding charter calling for Israel's destruction.
344
+ Arafat accused Netanyahu of making a farce out of the Wye River accord.
345
+ Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to revoke the anti-Israel clauses in the PLO's founding charter.
346
+ Clinton's visit to Israel and the Palestinian lands is intended to bolster the U.S.-brokered peace accord.
347
+ a West Bank troop pullout as promised under the Wye River peace agreement.
348
+ Clinton will visit Gaza, the West Bank and Israel during a four-day trip that will begin on Dec. 12.
349
+ Israeli officials accused the Palestinians of reneging on agreements
350
+ As long as the Taliban maintain control of Afghanistan
351
+ The center-left government of Italy fell on Friday following a no confidence vote and Premier Romano Prodi's resignation.
352
+ The Communist Refoundation Party withdrew its support over the weekend and threatened to derail the government.
353
+ President Scalfaro must now decide whether to ask Prodi or someone else to try to forge a new majority.
354
+ Italy's second-longest government since World War II collapsed on Friday following a no confidence vote and a defection from its center
355
+ Prodi offered to resign but President Scalfaro asked him to stay on as caretaker premier until a new government is formed.
356
+ Armando Cossutta resigned as party president in protest.
357
+ The center-left government of Italy was threatened with collapse by the defection of its Communist ally.
358
+ The center-left coalition lost a confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday
359
+ Prodi immediately offered his resignation to President Mario Monti.
360
+ The party forced him to offer his resignation last year over proposed budget cuts
361
+ Four kidnapped foreigners were beheaded during a botched attempt to free them.
362
+ Abducted Britons Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, and Stanley Shaw working to establish a mobile phone network in Grozny
363
+ The severed heads of the four men were found along a highway near Grozny.
364
+ The severed heads of the four men were found along a highway near Grozny.
365
+ Three masked gunmen abducted the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in North Ossetia, Vincent Cochetel
366
+ Three masked gunmen abducted the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in North Ossetia
367
+ The severed heads of Britons Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, and Rudolf Petschi, and New Zealander Stanley Shaw were found by
368
+ A Russian soldier taken hostage during the war was released after a year of efforts
369
+ A botched rescue attempt to free the four kidnapped Britons has resulted in their beheaded heads.
370
+ A French United Nations official kidnapped in southern Russia more than 10 months ago has been freed.
371
+ She had said she would run again in 2000.
372
+ A liberal lawmaker who planned to run for president in Russia's next elections was killed by a sniper's bullet as she talked with a friend
373
+ Starovoitova tried to run in 1996 but her registration was turned down for technical reasons.
374
+ Starovoitova tried to run in the 1996 elections but her registration was turned down for technical reasons.
375
+ A masked man attacked a Russian lawmaker in a Moscow apartment building as she talked with her husband.
376
+ A top banker was killed last week and an aide to Russia's parliament speaker was shot in the head last month
377
+ Katarina Starovoitova was a psychologist trained in Chelyabinsk
378
+ She was divorced from Boris Yeltsin and had one son.
379
+ A badly wounded aide to a murdered lawmaker regained consciousness Monday and was talking to police.
380
+ Linkov was critically wounded in the head during the attack
381
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its final report after probing the apartheid-era abuses.
382
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission has accused the African National Congress (ANC) of human rights violations.
383
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission completed a lengthy study of human rights violations during the apartheid era.
384
+ The last apartheid president will not be implicated in the rights violations.
385
+ Those implicated in human rights abuses will be investigated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
386
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission has found that former President de Klerk was an accessory after the fact in
387
+ The final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was excised because de Klerk is suing the commission.
388
+ A South African court has found former President de Klerk guilty of accessory after the fact in connection with bombings of the headquarters of a
389
+ The panel also accused the African National Congress (ANC) of atrocities against civilians.
390
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission is preparing to challenge de Klerk's removal from the final report.
391
+ At 4am October 7, 1998 Shepard's body was found tied to a fence.
392
+ At Shepard's funeral 1,000 people, including many who had never met him, mourned his death.
393
+ Matthew Wayne Shepard was mourned by 1,000 people at his funeral.
394
+ the 22-year-old Wyoming student was in a coma.
395
+ The bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on November 11
396
+ The primary motive was robbery.
397
+ After being kidnapped, Matthew Shepard was left tied to a fence for 18 hours in near-freezing temperatures.
398
+ Matthew Shepard was kidnapped and severely beaten after being tied to a fence for 18 hours in near-freezing temperatures.
399
+ After being kidnapped and severely beaten Shepard was found unconscious on a Wyoming ranch.
400
+ The three suspects are expected to face first-degree murder charges.
401
+ The opposition accuses Prime Minister Yilmaz of having ties to organized crime.
402
+ Bulent Ecevit was asked to form a new government.
403
+ The last government fell on November 25 following a no confidence vote and rumors that Yilmaz had ties to organized crime.
404
+ the last government collapsed in November under the weight of a mafia scandal.
405
+ the all-powerful military opposes any secular government.
406
+ Turkish Prime Minister Yilmza resigns following allegations that he intervened in a privatization contract
407
+ Turkish Prime Minister Yilmza faced no confidence votes and rumors that he had helped a mobster obtain loans.
408
+ Ecevit to persist in trying to convince Demirel to join him in a secular coalition
409
+ Bulent Ecevit was ousted as prime minister in 1974 following a no confidence vote
410
+ Turkey's secular parties are under pressure to keep the Islamic Virtue Party out of power.
411
+ A sniper shot Buffalo obstetrician Dr. Barnett Slepian as he performed abortions.
412
+ An anti-abortion gunman is believed to be at large.
413
+ Dr Barnett Slepian clinic, was fatally shot in his home.
414
+ Kopp is not a suspect in the shootings.
415
+ Kopp was wanted in connection with the murder of an obstetrician who performed abortions in the Buffalo region.
416
+ The sniper shot Slepian at his home near Buffalo.
417
+ Abortion rights advocates accused him of anti-abortion bias.
418
+ A New York doctor providing abortions was killed by a sniper's bullet after sending a picture of an aborted fetus to a Canadian newspaper
419
+ The sniper shot Dr. Barnett as he talked with a pro-life activist.
420
+ In July 1988, Randall Terry drove through the night from his home in Binghamton, N.Y.
421
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
422
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
423
+ An estimated 400 people, most aged 13 to 18 were at the dance.
424
+ The fast-spreading fire completely gutted the two-story building
425
+ The fire was the deadliest in modern Swedish history.
426
+ Most victims choked to death on smoke and poisonous gases.
427
+ Most attendees were immigrants or children of immigrants.
428
+ At least 57 of the injured were in intensive care.
429
+ Cause of the fire has not been established.
430
+ The building had a maximum capacity of 150.
431
+ The Yankees defeated the Indians, 9-5 in Game 6 to advance to the World Series.
432
+ YANKEES Pitching enabled the Yankees to advance past Cleveland in the American League Championship Series.
433
+ The Yankees neutralized the Padres' ace, Kevin Brown, in the seventh inning.
434
+ Since cancerous cells were found in one of the 36 lymph nodes removed from his abdomen during the operation, Strawberry will need six months of
435
+ The Padres have struggled against left-handed pitching in the postseason.
436
+ The Yankees trailed San Diego, 5-2, in the seventh inning.
437
+ Hernandez dominated the Astros in Game 4 of the ALCS.
438
+ The Yankees dominated the regular season and dominated the postseason.
439
+ The Yankees trailed 5-2 in the seventh inning when Knoblauch hit a three-run home run
440
+ The umpires will not be in New York for the NLCS because of scheduling conflicts.
441
+ Republicans and White House officials wrestled with their differences over education.
442
+ Republicans and Democrats struggled to agree on a budget by the end of the fiscal year.
443
+ both sides have agreed to spend more than $1 billion but disagree over how to spend it.
444
+ the average class size was reduced to 18 students.
445
+ temporary financing to keep the government operating through Oct. 9.
446
+ the Senate has fewer differences among its Republicans and with the White House.
447
+ Some conservatives would probably vote for the spending package because it boosted defense spending and provided aid to farmers.
448
+ The budget agreement was a broad outline of areas of agreement
449
+ Clinton and Republicans agree to spend more than $1 billion but disagree on how to spend it.
450
+ An unresolved issue is whether airlines can create a peanut-free zone to protect passengers.
451
+ A respiratory infection forced Yeltsin to cut short a trip to Central Asia.
452
+ Yeltsin's health problems rekindled speculation about his ability to continue in office.
453
+ Yeltsin insists he has no serious health problems and will serve out the remaining two years of his term.
454
+ Russia's Constitutional Court opened hearings Thursday on whether Boris Yeltsin can seek a third term.
455
+ Yeltsin has flatly said he will not run again.
456
+ Yeltsin's doctors reported that his condition was stable.
457
+ Yeltsin was being treated with antibiotics and there were no plans to hospitalize him.
458
+ Yeltsin had a fever of 37.4 Celsius (99.3 Fahrenheit) and was being treated with antibiotics.
459
+ Yeltsin insists he has no major health problems.
460
+ Russian President Boris Yeltsin to attend a conference in Kazakstan
461
+ The Justice Department and 20 states are suing Microsoft Corporation for antitrust violations.
462
+ The case of United States vs. Microsoft Corporation is playing out against a century of antitrust laws
463
+ The government's most aggressive move against a monopolist in almost 25 years
464
+ The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is considering a challenge to the Sherman Act
465
+ Microsoft dominates the PC market with Windows.
466
+ The Justice Department has brought civil suit against Microsoft
467
+ The government is trying to curb monopolistic practices that threaten to render large parts of the economy vulnerable to the vicissitudes of a single
468
+ Microsoft asserts that the case is intended to give the government control over Windows.
469
+ The contracts prohibit manufacturers from substituting Netscape's Navigator browser for Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
470
+ The Sherman Act was passed by Congress in 1890.
471
+ Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan
472
+ A U.S. federal court returned a 238-count indictment against Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and his top aide Abdallah al-
473
+ A nearly simultaneous attack on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August
474
+ A car bomb exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam killing 11 Americans and injuring over 85
475
+ Afghanistan accuses the US of bombing its bases in Afghanistan
476
+ At least 26 people were killed in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.
477
+ All three defendants pleaded innocent.
478
+ Three men arrested in connection with the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
479
+ Terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on November 21
480
+ Afghanistan has declared Mullah Mohammed Omar's freedom.
481
+ Hariri is credited with restoring economic confidence and stabilizing the national currency.
482
+ the president polled members of the 128-seat Parliament on their choice.
483
+ Lebanese businessman Rafik Hariri led a multi-billion dollar reconstruction program to rebuild the country after the civil war
484
+ The new president will be sworn in on November 24.
485
+ Lebanese President Emile Lahoud was elected with the strong backing of Syria.
486
+ The British-trained general rebuilt the army after it disintegrated in the civil war.
487
+ Lebanon's parliament has elected popular army commander Emile Lahoud as its new president.
488
+ Lebanese President Boutros Boutros-Ghali accused former Prime Minister Saad Hariri of trying to derail a pro-
489
+ Lahoud refused to name a new prime minister.
490
+ Lebanon's President Hariri accused Prime Minister Saad Hariri of tampering with the country's constitution
491
+ Two prominent dissidents were sentenced to 13 and 11 years in prison for trying to establish the new party.
492
+ The 13-year prison term Xu Wenli was given for "subversion of state power".
493
+ Three prominent dissidents working to establish the new party
494
+ Communist officials charged Xu with inciting subversion
495
+ China has jailed three of its most prominent dissidents.
496
+ China has been accused of detaining dissidents in violation of international law.
497
+ the dean of the dissident movement, Xu Wenli was sentenced to 13 years for "subversion of state power.''
498
+ The protesters were exercising their right to free speech and assembly
499
+ Free speech and assembly are guaranteed by China's constitution
500
+ The West condemned China's detaining those "peacefully exercising their fundamental freedoms
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/merges.txt ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/predict_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "predict_gen_len": 19.546,
3
+ "predict_loss": 3.6777491569519043,
4
+ "predict_rouge1": 29.1795,
5
+ "predict_rouge2": 10.6905,
6
+ "predict_rougeL": 25.2253,
7
+ "predict_rougeLsum": 25.2077,
8
+ "predict_runtime": 60.3206,
9
+ "predict_samples": 500,
10
+ "predict_samples_per_second": 8.289,
11
+ "predict_steps_per_second": 0.53
12
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/pytorch_model.bin ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
 
 
 
 
1
+ version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
2
+ oid sha256:5c27b0f4f7dc0608665a68a231fde1ddca0e1a9a7f588258b80e7ab5ab714f2b
3
+ size 1625549581
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/special_tokens_map.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "additional_special_tokens": [
3
+ "<h>",
4
+ "</h>"
5
+ ],
6
+ "bos_token": "<s>",
7
+ "cls_token": "<s>",
8
+ "eos_token": "</s>",
9
+ "mask_token": {
10
+ "content": "<mask>",
11
+ "lstrip": true,
12
+ "normalized": false,
13
+ "rstrip": false,
14
+ "single_word": false
15
+ },
16
+ "pad_token": "<pad>",
17
+ "sep_token": "</s>",
18
+ "unk_token": "<unk>"
19
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/tokenizer.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/tokenizer_config.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "add_prefix_space": false,
3
+ "bos_token": "<s>",
4
+ "cls_token": "<s>",
5
+ "eos_token": "</s>",
6
+ "errors": "replace",
7
+ "mask_token": "<mask>",
8
+ "model_max_length": 1024,
9
+ "name_or_path": "facebook/bart-large",
10
+ "pad_token": "<pad>",
11
+ "sep_token": "</s>",
12
+ "special_tokens_map_file": null,
13
+ "tokenizer_class": "BartTokenizer",
14
+ "trim_offsets": true,
15
+ "unk_token": "<unk>"
16
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/train_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "epoch": 10.0,
3
+ "train_loss": 1.333928078099301,
4
+ "train_runtime": 339.2116,
5
+ "train_samples": 300,
6
+ "train_samples_per_second": 8.844,
7
+ "train_steps_per_second": 0.56
8
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/trainer_state.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "best_metric": null,
3
+ "best_model_checkpoint": null,
4
+ "epoch": 10.0,
5
+ "global_step": 190,
6
+ "is_hyper_param_search": false,
7
+ "is_local_process_zero": true,
8
+ "is_world_process_zero": true,
9
+ "log_history": [
10
+ {
11
+ "epoch": 2.63,
12
+ "eval_gen_len": 17.45294117647059,
13
+ "eval_loss": 3.194206714630127,
14
+ "eval_rouge1": 21.607,
15
+ "eval_rouge2": 7.5625,
16
+ "eval_rougeL": 18.7029,
17
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 18.6241,
18
+ "eval_runtime": 16.042,
19
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 10.597,
20
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.686,
21
+ "step": 50
22
+ },
23
+ {
24
+ "epoch": 5.26,
25
+ "eval_gen_len": 16.08235294117647,
26
+ "eval_loss": 3.64833402633667,
27
+ "eval_rouge1": 22.0535,
28
+ "eval_rouge2": 7.7818,
29
+ "eval_rougeL": 19.0685,
30
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 18.8775,
31
+ "eval_runtime": 15.922,
32
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 10.677,
33
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.691,
34
+ "step": 100
35
+ },
36
+ {
37
+ "epoch": 7.89,
38
+ "eval_gen_len": 17.54705882352941,
39
+ "eval_loss": 3.6887831687927246,
40
+ "eval_rouge1": 21.9962,
41
+ "eval_rouge2": 7.6701,
42
+ "eval_rougeL": 19.021,
43
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 18.9084,
44
+ "eval_runtime": 15.8796,
45
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 10.706,
46
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.693,
47
+ "step": 150
48
+ },
49
+ {
50
+ "epoch": 10.0,
51
+ "step": 190,
52
+ "total_flos": 1615771181678592.0,
53
+ "train_loss": 1.333928078099301,
54
+ "train_runtime": 339.2116,
55
+ "train_samples_per_second": 8.844,
56
+ "train_steps_per_second": 0.56
57
+ }
58
+ ],
59
+ "max_steps": 190,
60
+ "num_train_epochs": 10,
61
+ "total_flos": 1615771181678592.0,
62
+ "trial_name": null,
63
+ "trial_params": null
64
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/training_args.bin ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
 
 
 
 
1
+ version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
2
+ oid sha256:08664e5cb8026c6a991687b875c24be5374b9619bc1fb4ed7639bbd8de6420b0
3
+ size 3643
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_clusters/vocab.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/added_tokens.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "</h>": 50266,
3
+ "<h>": 50265
4
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/all_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
 
 
1
+ {"eval_rouge1": 21.4846, "eval_rouge2": 7.255, "eval_rougeL": 18.6241, "eval_rougeLsum": 18.6413}
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/config.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "_name_or_path": "facebook/bart-large",
3
+ "activation_dropout": 0.1,
4
+ "activation_function": "gelu",
5
+ "add_bias_logits": false,
6
+ "add_final_layer_norm": false,
7
+ "architectures": [
8
+ "BartForConditionalGeneration"
9
+ ],
10
+ "attention_dropout": 0.1,
11
+ "bos_token_id": 0,
12
+ "classif_dropout": 0.1,
13
+ "classifier_dropout": 0.0,
14
+ "d_model": 1024,
15
+ "decoder_attention_heads": 16,
16
+ "decoder_ffn_dim": 4096,
17
+ "decoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
18
+ "decoder_layers": 12,
19
+ "decoder_start_token_id": 2,
20
+ "dropout": 0.1,
21
+ "early_stopping": true,
22
+ "encoder_attention_heads": 16,
23
+ "encoder_ffn_dim": 4096,
24
+ "encoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
25
+ "encoder_layers": 12,
26
+ "eos_token_id": 2,
27
+ "forced_bos_token_id": 0,
28
+ "forced_eos_token_id": 2,
29
+ "gradient_checkpointing": false,
30
+ "id2label": {
31
+ "0": "LABEL_0",
32
+ "1": "LABEL_1",
33
+ "2": "LABEL_2"
34
+ },
35
+ "init_std": 0.02,
36
+ "is_encoder_decoder": true,
37
+ "label2id": {
38
+ "LABEL_0": 0,
39
+ "LABEL_1": 1,
40
+ "LABEL_2": 2
41
+ },
42
+ "max_position_embeddings": 1024,
43
+ "model_type": "bart",
44
+ "no_repeat_ngram_size": 3,
45
+ "normalize_before": false,
46
+ "num_beams": 4,
47
+ "num_hidden_layers": 12,
48
+ "pad_token_id": 1,
49
+ "scale_embedding": false,
50
+ "task_specific_params": {
51
+ "summarization": {
52
+ "length_penalty": 1.0,
53
+ "max_length": 128,
54
+ "min_length": 12,
55
+ "num_beams": 4
56
+ },
57
+ "summarization_cnn": {
58
+ "length_penalty": 2.0,
59
+ "max_length": 142,
60
+ "min_length": 56,
61
+ "num_beams": 4
62
+ },
63
+ "summarization_xsum": {
64
+ "length_penalty": 1.0,
65
+ "max_length": 62,
66
+ "min_length": 11,
67
+ "num_beams": 6
68
+ }
69
+ },
70
+ "torch_dtype": "float32",
71
+ "transformers_version": "4.25.0.dev0",
72
+ "use_cache": true,
73
+ "vocab_size": 50267
74
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/merges.txt ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/pytorch_model.bin ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
 
 
 
 
1
+ version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
2
+ oid sha256:ba16922265ba5a8482b970021b8ed3d5d3d16fa8c9bd16e03daa183796d2acbb
3
+ size 1625549581
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/special_tokens_map.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "additional_special_tokens": [
3
+ "<h>",
4
+ "</h>"
5
+ ],
6
+ "bos_token": "<s>",
7
+ "cls_token": "<s>",
8
+ "eos_token": "</s>",
9
+ "mask_token": {
10
+ "content": "<mask>",
11
+ "lstrip": true,
12
+ "normalized": false,
13
+ "rstrip": false,
14
+ "single_word": false
15
+ },
16
+ "pad_token": "<pad>",
17
+ "sep_token": "</s>",
18
+ "unk_token": "<unk>"
19
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/tokenizer.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/tokenizer_config.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "add_prefix_space": false,
3
+ "bos_token": "<s>",
4
+ "cls_token": "<s>",
5
+ "eos_token": "</s>",
6
+ "errors": "replace",
7
+ "mask_token": "<mask>",
8
+ "model_max_length": 1024,
9
+ "name_or_path": "facebook/bart-large",
10
+ "pad_token": "<pad>",
11
+ "sep_token": "</s>",
12
+ "special_tokens_map_file": null,
13
+ "tokenizer_class": "BartTokenizer",
14
+ "trim_offsets": true,
15
+ "unk_token": "<unk>"
16
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_0_h_0_clusters/vocab.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/README.md ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ ---
2
+ license: apache-2.0
3
+ tags:
4
+ - generated_from_trainer
5
+ metrics:
6
+ - rouge
7
+ model-index:
8
+ - name: sent_window_1_h_1_clusters
9
+ results: []
10
+ ---
11
+
12
+ <!-- This model card has been generated automatically according to the information the Trainer had access to. You
13
+ should probably proofread and complete it, then remove this comment. -->
14
+
15
+ # sent_window_1_h_1_clusters
16
+
17
+ This model is a fine-tuned version of [facebook/bart-large](https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large) on an unknown dataset.
18
+ It achieves the following results on the evaluation set:
19
+ - Loss: 3.4426
20
+ - Rouge1: 23.8101
21
+ - Rouge2: 9.1291
22
+ - Rougel: 20.9213
23
+ - Rougelsum: 20.9274
24
+ - Gen Len: 16.0412
25
+
26
+ ## Model description
27
+
28
+ More information needed
29
+
30
+ ## Intended uses & limitations
31
+
32
+ More information needed
33
+
34
+ ## Training and evaluation data
35
+
36
+ More information needed
37
+
38
+ ## Training procedure
39
+
40
+ ### Training hyperparameters
41
+
42
+ The following hyperparameters were used during training:
43
+ - learning_rate: 3e-05
44
+ - train_batch_size: 4
45
+ - eval_batch_size: 4
46
+ - seed: 42
47
+ - gradient_accumulation_steps: 8
48
+ - total_train_batch_size: 32
49
+ - optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
50
+ - lr_scheduler_type: linear
51
+ - num_epochs: 10.0
52
+
53
+ ### Training results
54
+
55
+ | Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Rouge1 | Rouge2 | Rougel | Rougelsum | Gen Len |
56
+ |:-------------:|:-----:|:----:|:---------------:|:------:|:------:|:-------:|:---------:|:-------:|
57
+ | No log | 5.53 | 50 | 3.2441 | 21.86 | 7.5078 | 19.2167 | 19.2113 | 17.0294 |
58
+
59
+
60
+ ### Framework versions
61
+
62
+ - Transformers 4.25.0.dev0
63
+ - Pytorch 1.13.0+cu117
64
+ - Datasets 2.7.1
65
+ - Tokenizers 0.13.2
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/added_tokens.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "</h>": 50266,
3
+ "<h>": 50265
4
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/all_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "epoch": 9.96,
3
+ "eval_gen_len": 16.041176470588237,
4
+ "eval_loss": 3.4425899982452393,
5
+ "eval_rouge1": 23.8101,
6
+ "eval_rouge2": 9.1291,
7
+ "eval_rougeL": 20.9213,
8
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 20.9274,
9
+ "eval_runtime": 52.0174,
10
+ "eval_samples": 170,
11
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 3.268,
12
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.827,
13
+ "predict_gen_len": 16.532,
14
+ "predict_loss": 3.293339252471924,
15
+ "predict_rouge1": 28.9673,
16
+ "predict_rouge2": 10.64,
17
+ "predict_rougeL": 25.7376,
18
+ "predict_rougeLsum": 25.7334,
19
+ "predict_runtime": 157.8572,
20
+ "predict_samples": 500,
21
+ "predict_samples_per_second": 3.167,
22
+ "predict_steps_per_second": 0.792,
23
+ "train_loss": 1.644901360405816,
24
+ "train_runtime": 1076.0707,
25
+ "train_samples": 300,
26
+ "train_samples_per_second": 2.788,
27
+ "train_steps_per_second": 0.084
28
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/config.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "_name_or_path": "facebook/bart-large",
3
+ "activation_dropout": 0.1,
4
+ "activation_function": "gelu",
5
+ "add_bias_logits": false,
6
+ "add_final_layer_norm": false,
7
+ "architectures": [
8
+ "BartForConditionalGeneration"
9
+ ],
10
+ "attention_dropout": 0.1,
11
+ "bos_token_id": 0,
12
+ "classif_dropout": 0.1,
13
+ "classifier_dropout": 0.0,
14
+ "d_model": 1024,
15
+ "decoder_attention_heads": 16,
16
+ "decoder_ffn_dim": 4096,
17
+ "decoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
18
+ "decoder_layers": 12,
19
+ "decoder_start_token_id": 2,
20
+ "dropout": 0.1,
21
+ "early_stopping": true,
22
+ "encoder_attention_heads": 16,
23
+ "encoder_ffn_dim": 4096,
24
+ "encoder_layerdrop": 0.0,
25
+ "encoder_layers": 12,
26
+ "eos_token_id": 2,
27
+ "forced_bos_token_id": 0,
28
+ "forced_eos_token_id": 2,
29
+ "gradient_checkpointing": false,
30
+ "id2label": {
31
+ "0": "LABEL_0",
32
+ "1": "LABEL_1",
33
+ "2": "LABEL_2"
34
+ },
35
+ "init_std": 0.02,
36
+ "is_encoder_decoder": true,
37
+ "label2id": {
38
+ "LABEL_0": 0,
39
+ "LABEL_1": 1,
40
+ "LABEL_2": 2
41
+ },
42
+ "max_position_embeddings": 1024,
43
+ "model_type": "bart",
44
+ "no_repeat_ngram_size": 3,
45
+ "normalize_before": false,
46
+ "num_beams": 4,
47
+ "num_hidden_layers": 12,
48
+ "pad_token_id": 1,
49
+ "scale_embedding": false,
50
+ "task_specific_params": {
51
+ "summarization": {
52
+ "length_penalty": 1.0,
53
+ "max_length": 128,
54
+ "min_length": 12,
55
+ "num_beams": 4
56
+ },
57
+ "summarization_cnn": {
58
+ "length_penalty": 2.0,
59
+ "max_length": 142,
60
+ "min_length": 56,
61
+ "num_beams": 4
62
+ },
63
+ "summarization_xsum": {
64
+ "length_penalty": 1.0,
65
+ "max_length": 62,
66
+ "min_length": 11,
67
+ "num_beams": 6
68
+ }
69
+ },
70
+ "torch_dtype": "float32",
71
+ "transformers_version": "4.25.0.dev0",
72
+ "use_cache": true,
73
+ "vocab_size": 50267
74
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/eval_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "epoch": 9.96,
3
+ "eval_gen_len": 16.041176470588237,
4
+ "eval_loss": 3.4425899982452393,
5
+ "eval_rouge1": 23.8101,
6
+ "eval_rouge2": 9.1291,
7
+ "eval_rougeL": 20.9213,
8
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 20.9274,
9
+ "eval_runtime": 52.0174,
10
+ "eval_samples": 170,
11
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 3.268,
12
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.827
13
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/generated_predictions.txt ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,500 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ The agreement will make Hun Sen prime minister and Ranariddh president of the National Assembly.
2
+ Opposition leaders Prince Norodom Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy fled Cambodia citing threats to their lives.
3
+ Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party narrowly won the election.
4
+ A series of negotiations to forge a new government have failed.
5
+ Hun Sen accused him of being behind a plot against his life.
6
+ Hun Sen overthrew Ranariddh in a coup last year.
7
+ The opposition has accused the government of widespread fraud and intimidation.
8
+ Opposition parties refused to enter into a coalition with Hun Sen until their allegations of election fraud have been thoroughly investigated.
9
+ a coalition government led by strongman Hun Sen.
10
+ Cambodian leader Hun Sen rejected opposition parties' demands for talks outside the country
11
+ Hurricane Mitch bringing torrential rains, flooding and killing scores of people.
12
+ At least 231 people have been killed in Honduras
13
+ Hurricane Mitch roared through the northwest Caribbean
14
+ Hurricane Mitch bringing torrential rains, flooding and killing scores of people.
15
+ Hurricane Patricia bringing heavy rains, flooding and winds to Honduras
16
+ Hurricane Mitch lingered off the Honduran coast for several days
17
+ Clinton requested a ``global relief effort
18
+ Clinton to provide $70 million in emergency aid
19
+ More than 200 towns and villages were isolated by the storm
20
+ Hurricane Mitch bringing torrential rains, flooding and killing scores of people.
21
+ Pinochet was charged with genocide, terrorism and torture.
22
+ Pinochet was arrested in London on October 16
23
+ Pinochet was arrested in London on Oct. 16
24
+ Pinochet's wife appealed for his release.
25
+ Pinochet was hospitalized in London for back surgery.
26
+ Pinochet was charged with murder, torture and genocide.
27
+ Pinochet was in London for back surgery.
28
+ Pinochet was charged with murder, kidnapping and terrorism.
29
+ Chile protested Pinochet's arrest.
30
+ Pinochet enjoys diplomatic immunity.
31
+ Osama bin Laden is suspected of masterminding the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa
32
+ Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan
33
+ Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan
34
+ a terrorist group backed by Osama bin Laden.
35
+ Osama bin Laden masterminding a worldwide terrorist conspiracy against Americans.
36
+ The blast at the embassy building in downtown Nairobi killed 213 people, 12 of them Americans and injured 5,400.
37
+ the Taliban control about 90 percent of Afghanistan
38
+ A U.S. court has charged Saudi businessman Mohammed bin Laden with murder and terrorism.
39
+ The Taliban's chief justice accused the United States of looking for an `` excuse''
40
+ The United States has obtained new evidence to link the owner of a Sudanese factory
41
+ More than 200 players with guaranteed contracts should be paid during the lockout.
42
+ the National Football League and Major League Baseball to a labor dispute.
43
+ The NBA has already canceled the first two weeks of the season because of the labor dispute.
44
+ The NBA and NBA Players Association announced the cancellation of all 114 preseason games.
45
+ The NBA announced the cancellation after nearly three and a half hours of meetings.
46
+ the players will be liable for about 800 million in guaranteed salaries.
47
+ the owners will be liable for about $800 million in guaranteed salaries
48
+ The players association proposed a salary cap instead of a hard salary cap.
49
+ The players association proposed a tax system instead of a hard salary cap.
50
+ The league already has sued the players over Feerick's jurisdiction.
51
+ Congolese rebels have taken their two-month campaign to oust President Laurent Kabila
52
+ Kabila accuses Rwanda and Uganda of orchestrating the rebellion.
53
+ The rebels accuse President Kabila of mismanagement, corruption and sowing dissent among Congo's 400 tribes.
54
+ rebels shot down a passenger jet ferrying 40 government soldiers.
55
+ The rebels are a coalition of ethnic Tutsis, disenchanted members of Kabila's army and political opponents
56
+ rebels were apparently meeting stiff resistance.
57
+ the rebels were stopped at the outskirts of the capital
58
+ rebels attacked a village in western Uganda
59
+ rebels captured Kindu and an airbase
60
+ Fighting in Kindu
61
+ Clinton to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Kuala Lumpur.
62
+ Anwar was fired as deputy premier in September
63
+ Anwar was charged with corruption and sex crimes.
64
+ Anwar was arrested on Sept. 20 on corruption and illegal sex
65
+ Estrada to skip Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting because of Anwar's arrest.
66
+ APEC groups Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia,
67
+ Malaysia's economic woes were exacerbated by the imposition of capital controls in 1998.
68
+ Russia and Peru will also join in November.
69
+ The summit is to take place in Kuala Lumpur on Nov. 17-18.
70
+ Mahathir to be the successor to Malaysia's long-serving Prime Minister
71
+ A car rigged with explosives blew
72
+ A bomb-loaded car exploded near a Jerusalem market killing the bombers and wounding 21 Israelis.
73
+ The militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
74
+ Palestinian security sources and the families of the dead bombers had already identified them as Islamic Jihad activists.
75
+ A bomb-loaded car exploded near a Jerusalem market killing the bombers and wounding 21 Israelis.
76
+ The radical group Islamic Jihad vowed more attacks to try to block the new peace accord.
77
+ A controversial site in the traditionally Arab sector of the city.
78
+ The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.
79
+ The bombers came from West Bank villages under Israeli security control.
80
+ A car rigged with explosives blew up in a Jerusalem market
81
+ Anwar was charged with illegal homosexual acts and corruption.
82
+ Mahathir and Anwar had differed over economic policy
83
+ Mahathir described Anwar as morally unfit for office.
84
+ Mahathir groomed Anwar as his successor.
85
+ Anwar to go on trial Nov. 2
86
+ Mahathir fired Anwar on Sept. 2
87
+ Anwar Ibrahim was arrested on Sept. 20
88
+ Anwar pleading innocent
89
+ Mahathir to probe alleged beatings of Anwar
90
+ Mahathir fired Anwar on economic policy.
91
+ NATO air raids to force Milosevic's hand.
92
+ The United States and Russia ratcheting up the pressure on President Slobodan Milosevic.
93
+ Yugoslavia to comply with U.N. demands.
94
+ While fighting has abated temporarily, the capacity for its resumption is there.
95
+ Holbrooke negotiated the peace deal with Milosevic and other Balkan leaders
96
+ The situation in Kosovo was as bad now as two weeks ago.
97
+ President Milosevic has ordered most units of his army back to barracks and
98
+ U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke says the situation in Kosovo has not improved.
99
+ A Western diplomat said up to 120 tanks and other heavy equipment have been withdrawn.
100
+ The situation in Kosovo was as bad as two weeks ago.
101
+ Three years of floods and drought devastated North Korea's collective farming and planned economy.
102
+ Over 62 percent of children under 7 had stunted growth.
103
+ North Korea is entering its fourth winter of chronic food shortages with its people malnourished and at risk of dying
104
+ Famine-threatened North Korea's harvest will be no better this year than last
105
+ the United Nations reported that 30 percent of North Korean children under age 2 are acutely malnourished and 67 percent of all children are
106
+ Namanga Ngongi, deputy head of the World Food Program said.
107
+ North Korea needs a minimum 4.5 million to 5 million tons of grain
108
+ Hunger and malnutrition in Cambodia are reaching crisis levels.
109
+ Afghanistan stunted growth by 62 percent
110
+ Famine ravages North Korea
111
+ The Bangkok games are expected to attract more than 10,000 athletes from 43 nations.
112
+ Iran's equestrian team will not compete in the Asian Games
113
+ Saudi Arabia is considering sending a small team to the Bangkok Asian Games
114
+ A series of controversies overshadowed the Asian Games in Bangkok.
115
+ the organizing committees from the 43 nations competing in the games
116
+ Thai police have detained more than 300 beggars.
117
+ A snooker game between longtime Asian rivals India and Pakistan led to a flareup of tempers
118
+ Asian Games organizers dismissed concerns that the complex would not be completed on time
119
+ Iran's equestrian team will not compete in next month's Asian Games
120
+ Saudi Arabia withdraws from Asian Games
121
+ Several prominent dissidents working to establish the new party
122
+ Qin and Wang were charged with inciting subversion
123
+ Wang was charged with inciting subversion
124
+ Yao Zhenxian, a prominent figure in the China Democracy Party
125
+ China defends its action
126
+ Qin was suspected of involvement in activities damaging to national security
127
+ Qin Yongmin was arrested on November 30
128
+ Two prominent dissidents associated with the new party were arrested.
129
+ Three prominent dissidents of the China Democracy Party were charged with inciting subversion
130
+ China signed the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights in October
131
+ Republicans' new 223-211 majority was the smallest since the Republican-controlled Congress of 1953
132
+ Republicans suffered a net loss of five seats in the House.
133
+ The only witness Republicans were likely to call would be the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr.
134
+ Republicans stunned by Democratic resurgence
135
+ The Democratic surge marked the first time since 1934 that the president's party had gained seats in a midterm election.
136
+ the president's party had gained seats in a midterm election
137
+ Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky dominated the political landscape in 1998
138
+ Republicans controlled the House until they captured it again in 1994.
139
+ House Republicans to select new leaders Nov. 18.
140
+ The impeachment process would be handled by the independent counsel, Kenneth Starr.
141
+ AOL to acquire Netscape Communications Corp.
142
+ AOL to acquire Netscape Communications for $4 billion
143
+ Microsoft to acquire Netscape
144
+ the proposed acquisition of Netscape Communications Corp. seriously undermined the government's antitrust suit.
145
+ The government's antitrust suit against Microsoft is uncertain.
146
+ AOL to acquire Netscape
147
+ Netscape to help companies establish online stores.
148
+ a major business in offering them an end-to-end solution.
149
+ Microsoft bundled its browser with its Windows operating system.
150
+ Microsoft acquires Netscape
151
+ The move would prohibit Russians from buying U.S. dollars and other currencies
152
+ Russia's new prime minister picked an unusual way to reassure the nation
153
+ Russia's new prime minister announced that he still had no plan to rescue the country from its economic crisis.
154
+ The Russian financial crisis has hurt bilateral trade and caused the Ukrainian currency to fall.
155
+ Ukrainians have withdrawn billions of dollars from their banks.
156
+ The Fed cut rates in response to the economic troubles in Asia and Russia.
157
+ The United States was disappointed by the new Russian government of Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov
158
+ Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said the economic crisis would not bring an end to the government's privatization program.
159
+ President Boris Yeltsin would respond strongly to any effort
160
+ Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov announced no plan to rescue the country from its economic crisis.
161
+ Turkey massed troops near its border with Syria
162
+ Lebanon denies harboring Kurdish rebels.
163
+ Turkey accuses Syria of harboring Turkish Kurdish rebels
164
+ Syria denies the allegation.
165
+ Turkey accuses Syria of harboring Kurdish rebels
166
+ Tensions between Turkey and Syria have escalated in recent days.
167
+ Turkish jets violating Syria airspace near the border.
168
+ Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to visit Turkey later this week.
169
+ Turkish President Suleyman Demirel warned Damascus that Turkey would not allow its Kurdish rebels.
170
+ Ankara has sent troops to its border with Syria,
171
+ Gale-force winds and high seas battered the Sydney-to-Hobart race.
172
+ Two crew members drowned and three others were missing in the Sydney-to-Hobart race.
173
+ Three yachts were swept off the Sword of Orion in wild seas
174
+ The yacht had a crew of 11.
175
+ A police helicopter rescued a yachtsman swept overboard.
176
+ the injuries suffered by surviving crewmen.
177
+ Three yachts remain missing and rescue resources were stretched to the limit.
178
+ The missing boats are veteran cutter Winston Churchill
179
+ Three yachts were swept off the Sword of Orion in wild seas on Sunday night.
180
+ The yacht was halfway across Bass Strait when it overturned.
181
+ It was the first time the Russian-built Zarya control module and the made-in-America Unity chamber had ever touched.
182
+ It looked to be a perfect and, hopefully, long-lasting fit.
183
+ the first time such a ``blind'' docking had ever been attempted.
184
+ Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station.
185
+ The 240-mile-high construction job began two hours earlier with Zarya (Russian for Sunrise)
186
+ The two station pieces are so big, each weighing 70,000 pounds.
187
+ It looked to be a perfect fit.
188
+ the two giant cylinders in the cargo bay.
189
+ It was slow going; she wanted and needed perfect alignment. Once she was sure she had it, Cabana fired Endeavour's
190
+ Endeavour's astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station on Sunday, creating a seven-story tower in the
191
+ The 11 countries adopting the euro
192
+ In a surprise move the European Central Bank cut its key interest rate to 3 percent.
193
+ the currency will group 11 European nations.
194
+ The European Central Bank will set monetary policy for the currency bloc
195
+ France pressing for rate cuts to help boost growth and combat unemployment.
196
+ European Central Bank chief Duisenberg instead suggested that governments should reform rigid labor markets to create jobs.
197
+ The Paris Stock Exchange will join the London Stock Exchange in creating a pan-European market.
198
+ Italy dropped to 3.5 percent from 4 percent.
199
+ The euro was approved by the European Parliament in September 1998.
200
+ The annual inflation rate in the 11 nations that use the euro fell to 0.9 percent in November
201
+ Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975
202
+ Indonesian troops killed one East Timorese and wounded 22 others.
203
+ McLeod said 40,000 East Timorese were killed by Japanese soldiers for protecting Australian commandos during World War II.
204
+ Indonesian troops killed one East Timorese and wounded 22 others.
205
+ Portugal suspended talks with Indonesia following reports of a massacre of dozens of East Timorese rebels.
206
+ The attack took place Tuesday near Cailaco in East Timor
207
+ Protesters on Sunday urged Australian military leaders to identify Indonesian army officers accused of human rights abuses.
208
+ the former Portuguese colony occupied by Indonesia since 1975.
209
+ the elite commando units accused of atrocities in East Timor.
210
+ Indonesia has been accused of atrocities in East Timor
211
+ Portugal's Jose Saramago was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature.
212
+ the first Portuguese-language author to obtain the prestigious award.
213
+ Carter has repeatedly been nominated for the Nobel peace prize for his consistent and wide-ranging peace efforts.
214
+ Three American researchers won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system.
215
+ The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually by the Swedish Academy.
216
+ Nitric oxide is a common air pollutant.
217
+ The Swedish Academy awarded Saramago the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
218
+ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded annually to a scientist for outstanding contributions to biomedical research.
219
+ Portugal's Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
220
+ for signing the Camp David peace accords.
221
+ Ariel Sharon's appointment as foreign minister serves as a "bullet of mercy" for the stalled peace process.
222
+ Ariel Sharon was named Israel's new foreign minister
223
+ An Israeli tribunal looking into the massacre found him indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees by Christian Lebanese militiamen at two
224
+ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named Sharon foreign minister on Friday,
225
+ Many Arabs know Sharon for his 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
226
+ The peace process has stopped on all tracks
227
+ the Golan Heights which Israel captured in 1967.
228
+ Syria and Israel had reached an informal agreement on a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights
229
+ to change its anti-peace stand.
230
+ An Israeli tribunal looking into the invasion found him indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees by pro-Israeli Lebanese militiamen
231
+ A top IOC official on Saturday made explosive allegations of widespread Olympic corruption
232
+ The IOC has investigated possible bribery by bidding cities.
233
+ the Salt Lake bid committee won the right to stage the 2002 Winter Games.
234
+ Juan Antonio Samaranch promised to expel any IOC members found guilty of bribery.
235
+ A top IOC official alleged widespread bribery in the selection of host cities.
236
+ Four IOC members, including one member of the executive board, were allegedly involved in vote-buying.
237
+ the scholarship fund was described as ``humanitarian aid'' by Salt Lake officials
238
+ Hodler described the scholarship fund as a bribe.
239
+ Nagano denied allegations that city officials bribed officials to win the right to host the games.
240
+ The senior Olympic official accusing the IOC of corruption
241
+ Israel continues to control the airspace and has the authority to shut down the airport.
242
+ Israeli security officials delayed two planes from taking off.
243
+ An Egypt Air plane was the first to land at the new airport.
244
+ Palestinian airport workers refused to allow Israeli security officials to check the identity of passengers.
245
+ Israel retains control over Gaza International Airport.
246
+ Egypt's health minister and several doctors bearing medical supplies as gifts.
247
+ Clinton brokered the accord.
248
+ Since then Israel has accused the Palestinians of failing to contain anti-Israel violence.
249
+ Since Wye, Israel has accused the Palestinians of reneging on an agreement
250
+ Since Wye, Israel and Palestine have accused one another of reneging on agreements.
251
+ the 1988 bombing killing 270 people.
252
+ the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner killing 270 people.
253
+ The move was aimed at forcing Gadhafi to surrender two Libyans.
254
+ the 1988 Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie.
255
+ Annan met with Gadhafi in a desert tent.
256
+ A U.S.-British proposal to try the suspects in the Netherlands
257
+ the jetliner blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie on Dec. 21
258
+ Since 1992 Libya has been under U.N. sanctions.
259
+ the bombing of a Pan Am jet.
260
+ Gadhafi injured his hip while exercising.
261
+ Turkey has asked for Ocalan's extradition.
262
+ Abdullah Ocalan's supporters protested in Rome and Vienna.
263
+ a terrorist and its most wanted criminal.
264
+ He had been seeking political asylum in Russia.
265
+ a number of terrorism-related charges which could carry the death penalty.
266
+ Abdullah Ocalan was arrested at Rome airport on Thursday.
267
+ Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan was arrested in Rome
268
+ Kurds protested in Italy against Ocalan's detention
269
+ Ocalan is currently being held in Rome.
270
+ Kurds in Italy, Germany, Austria and Romania launched protests and hunger strikes in fervent
271
+ Exxon and Mobil discussing a merger
272
+ the lowest prices, after inflation, since the Depression.
273
+ Low oil prices and the high cost of exploration are forcing many energy companies to merge.
274
+ Exxon was then known as Standard Oil of New Jersey
275
+ British Petroleum to acquire Amoco for $48.2 billion
276
+ Exxon and Mobil to consider a merger
277
+ Times are tough in the oil patch.
278
+ It was unclear whether talks were continuing.
279
+ the companies were to merge.
280
+ Oil prices have plummeted to levels last seen in the mid-1980s
281
+ the Republican leader was forced to admit that he had had adulterous affairs in his past.
282
+ House Speaker Livingston abruptly announced that he would not serve as speaker
283
+ Clinton urged Livingston to reconsider
284
+ the debate over whether to impeach President Clinton.
285
+ Rep. Livingston to resign as speaker
286
+ The House impeached President Clinton for perjury on Saturday
287
+ Clinton should be impeached and tried in the Senate
288
+ Clinton urged Livingston to resign.
289
+ The House impeached President Clinton for perjury
290
+ The House impeached President Clinton for perjury
291
+ It was the first time that the Russian-built Zarya control module and the American-built Unity chamber had ever touched.
292
+ A Russian Proton booster carried the first part of the international space station into orbit Friday
293
+ The first American module, Unity, will be attached to the Russian Zarya module.
294
+ Zarya was launched from Kazakhstan on November 20.
295
+ Endeavour and its astronauts connected the first two building blocks of the international space station.
296
+ The first part of the International Space Station was successfully deployed shortly after liftoff.
297
+ The station is expected to cost at least $40 billion.
298
+ A Russian Proton rocket was launched Dec. 3 carrying the Zarya space module and the Unity connecting module.
299
+ The station will be longer than a football field
300
+ the first component of a multibillion dollar international space station.
301
+ Brazil hoping for an IMF bailout.
302
+ Cardoso to announce spending cuts and tax increases.
303
+ The financial crisis buffeting developing nations for more than a year.
304
+ a collapse of Brazil would worsen financial instability throughout the hemisphere.
305
+ The money would stabilize Brazil's economy and restore investor confidence.
306
+ the belt-tightening austerity package.
307
+ The reforms would help Brazil qualify for an International Monetary Fund rescue package.
308
+ President Fernando Henrique Cardoso is telling government workers.
309
+ The United States is preparing to commit at least $30 billion
310
+ Brazil's economy has been battered by the global financial turmoil.
311
+ An underground North Korean site suspected of being used to produce nuclear weapons.
312
+ U.S. intelligence officials are not yet certain that the underground construction project in North Korea is nuclear related.
313
+ The North Koreans have denied that the complex is intended to help build nuclear weapons.
314
+ U.S. officials asked to see the suspicious site.
315
+ Clinton acknowledged that the suspicious underground construction project in North Korea is nuclear related.
316
+ A South Korean lawmaker said North Korea could have more secret underground nuclear facilities
317
+ Clinton won South Korea's support
318
+ North Korea has demanded hundreds of millions of dollars for the right to inspect a huge underground center
319
+ Clinton won South Korea's support.
320
+ He called for full access for U.S. inspectors.
321
+ An endorsement by the group could prove important in swinging voters to D'Amato in a tight race.
322
+ Lott has compared homosexuality to kleptomania.
323
+ the group is most likely to endorse D'Amato.
324
+ the nation's largest gay and lesbian political organization.
325
+ The Human Rights Campaign said it would make an endorsement by Friday.
326
+ Vinovich won re-election with 72 percent of the vote
327
+ a Democrat.
328
+ Voinovich vies with Boyle for re-election
329
+ The group tends to favor incumbents.
330
+ The group considers D'Amato's recent record on gay issues
331
+ Jubilation erupted among Serbs as the Yugoslavian tribunal cleared a Bosnian Serb commander of war crimes
332
+ Jubilation erupted among Bosnian Serbs as a Yugoslav court cleared a Bosnian Muslim commander of war crimes
333
+ Inmates at the Celebici prison camp were beaten to death by guards.
334
+ The tribunal convicted Zdravko Mucic of 11 war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
335
+ He was sentenced to 20 years.
336
+ At least 14 prisoners were killed in 1992.
337
+ The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal Monday convicted three underlings in the first U.N. case
338
+ a Bosnian Serb general was charged with genocide
339
+ Bosnian Serb Goran Jelisic was the face of genocide
340
+ Jelisic bragged about killing 20 or 30 Muslims before his morning coffee.
341
+ Clinton to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
342
+ The violence raised concern that U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit would foment more unrest.
343
+ the PLO founding charter calling for Israel's destruction.
344
+ Netanyahu accuses Arafat of making a farce out of the Wye River accord.
345
+ a historic meeting to formally revoke anti-Israel clauses in the PLO founding charter.
346
+ Clinton's visit is intended to provide impetus to the U.S.-brokered peace accord.
347
+ a West Bank troop pullback promised under the Wye River peace accord.
348
+ Clinton will visit Gaza, the West Bank and Israel during a four-day trip
349
+ He accused the Palestinians of violations of the peace accord.
350
+ As long as the Palestinians have the United States in their back pocket
351
+ Premier Romano Prodi's center-left coalition lost a confidence vote in Parliament
352
+ The Communist Refoundation Party withdrew its support over the budget.
353
+ President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro must now decide whether to call early elections or try to forge a new government.
354
+ The center-left government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi was threatened by the defection of its Communist ally.
355
+ President Scalfaro has named Prodi as caretaker premier until a new government is formed.
356
+ Armando Cossutta resigned as party president.
357
+ The center-left government was threatened with collapse by the defection of its Communist ally.
358
+ he went to the presidential palace to resign.
359
+ Prodi offered his resignation to President Scalfaro
360
+ The party forced him to offer his resignation.
361
+ Four kidnapped foreigners were beheaded during a botched attempt
362
+ They were abducted by unidentified gunmen Oct. 3 in Grozny.
363
+ The severed heads of the four men were found along a highway near Grozny
364
+ Chechen police were searching Wednesday for the bodies of four kidnapped foreigners
365
+ Vincent Cochetel, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in North
366
+ Vincent Cochetel headed the regional office for refugees in North Ossetia
367
+ Tagirov was investigating the deaths of Britons Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, and Rudolf Petschi, and New Zealander Stanley
368
+ a year of efforts to free him.
369
+ A botched attempt to free the four kidnapped foreigners was thwarted by Chechen guards.
370
+ A French United Nations official kidnapped in southern Russia more than 10 months ago
371
+ She had said she would run again in 2000.
372
+ A liberal lawmaker who planned to run for president in Russia's next elections was killed Friday in St. Petersburg
373
+ Starovoitova tried to run for president in 1996
374
+ Starovoitova tried to run for president in the 1996 elections
375
+ Galina Starovoitova was attacked in an apartment building
376
+ a top banker was killed last week.
377
+ She served as President Boris Yeltsin's aide on ethnic issues.
378
+ She was divorced and had one son.
379
+ A badly wounded aide to a murdered lawmaker regained consciousness Monday and was talking to police
380
+ Linkov was critically wounded in the head.
381
+ The 3,500-page final report was due Thursday.
382
+ The panel also accused the African National Congress (ANC) of human rights violations.
383
+ the report was expected to place overwhelming blame on white governments and their brutal security services.
384
+ the last apartheid president will not be charged.
385
+ the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
386
+ De Klerk objected to a finding that he was an accessory after the fact
387
+ de Klerk is suing the commission.
388
+ the bombings of the headquarters of a church group and of a labor federation
389
+ The commission has also accused the African National Congress (ANC) of atrocities.
390
+ the commission needed time to prepare the legal challenge.
391
+ He was beaten and tied to a fence for 18 hours.
392
+ a young man was brutally beaten because he is gay.
393
+ Matthew Wayne Shepard was mourned at his funeral Friday by 1,000 people
394
+ the 22-year-old college student was in a coma
395
+ The pastor of a nearby Presbyterian church, Anne Kitch, said that Matt's death would have made a difference in the lives of thousands
396
+ Shepard's homosexuality may also have been a factor.
397
+ He was kidnapped from a Wyoming ranch where he was left tied to a fence for 18 hours in near-freezing temperatures.
398
+ Matthew Shepard was kidnapped and severely beaten.
399
+ After he was found unconscious on a Wyoming ranch
400
+ The men and two women are expected to face first-degree murder charges.
401
+ The opposition accuses Prime Minister Yilmaz of having ties to organized crime.
402
+ Ecevit to form a new government.
403
+ Yilmaz led a 17-month government
404
+ the last government collapsed last week over a mafia scandal.
405
+ Turkey's staunchly secular military opposes an Islamic-led government.
406
+ Turkish Prime Minister Yilmaz resigns amid allegations that he interfered in a privatization contract and helped a businessman linked to a mobster
407
+ he interfered in a bank privatization and helped a mobster secure loans.
408
+ Ecevit has struggled to convince a key party leader to join forces.
409
+ Ecevit was a former prime minister best remembered for ordering an invasion of Cyprus in 1974
410
+ Turkey's secular parties to keep the Islamic Virtue Party out of power.
411
+ the sniper slaying of Dr. Barnett Slepian.
412
+ the gunman is believed to be at large.
413
+ the clinic doctor, was fatally
414
+ Kopp is not a suspect in the shootings.
415
+ Kopp is being sought by federal and local law enforcement authorities
416
+ The sniper shot Slepian at his home near Buffalo
417
+ Abortion rights advocates view Slepian as a martyr
418
+ A picture of an aborted fetus was sent to a Canadian newspaper
419
+ The sniper killed Dr. Barnett and wounded Kopp.
420
+ to start the series of anti-abortion protests
421
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
422
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of at least 60 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
423
+ An estimated 400 people, most aged 13 to 18, crowded the building.
424
+ The fast-spreading fire completely gutted the building and left rescuers facing a hideous scene.
425
+ The fire at the Macedonian Association local immigrant center was the deadliest in modern Swedish history.
426
+ Most deaths choked on smoke and poisonous gases.
427
+ Most of the victims were immigrants or children of immigrants.
428
+ At least 57 were in intensive care.
429
+ Cause of the fire has not been established.
430
+ the facility had approval for a maximum capacity of 150.
431
+ The Yankees won Game 6 to advance to the World Series against the Cleveland Indians.
432
+ YANKEES Pitching enabled the Yankees to advance past Cleveland in the AL Championship Series.
433
+ The Yankees were able to neutralize the Padres' ace, Kevin Brown, in the seventh inning.
434
+ He will need six months of chemotherapy.
435
+ a Padres' lineup is generally less effective against left-handed pitching.
436
+ The Yankees trailed San Diego, 5-2, in the seventh inning.
437
+ Aroldis Chapman pitched seven shutout innings in Game 4 of the ALCS
438
+ The Yankees dominated the regular season but faded in the World Series.
439
+ The Yankees trailed 5-2 in the seventh inning but rallied to tie the game.
440
+ The umpires' collective bargaining agreement with the leagues does not allow an umpire to work both a league championship series and the World
441
+ the most politically high-stakes element of the budget battle.
442
+ Congress and the White House struggled to agree on a budget.
443
+ Both sides have agreed to spend more than $1 billion but disagree over how to spend it.
444
+ Clinton insists that the money be spent to hire 100,000 teachers.
445
+ Congress provided temporary financing to keep the government open through Oct. 9
446
+ The Senate has fewer differences with the White House.
447
+ Some conservatives would probably vote for the $500 billion package because it boosted defense spending and provided aid to farmers.
448
+ Clinton and Republican leaders hailed the agreement as a broad outline of areas of agreement.
449
+ On education both sides have agreed to spend more than $1 billion.
450
+ Still unresolved is a dispute over whether airlines can create a peanut-free zone.
451
+ A respiratory infection forced him to cut short a trip to Central Asia earlier this week.
452
+ Every time Yeltsin falls ill speculation arises about his ability to govern.
453
+ Yeltsin insists he has no major health problems and will serve out the remaining two years of his term.
454
+ Russia's Constitutional Court opened hearings Thursday on whether Boris Yeltsin can seek a third term.
455
+ Yeltsin will not run again.
456
+ Yeltsin's health was stable.
457
+ He was being treated with antibiotics and there were no plans to hospitalize him.
458
+ Yeltsin was suffering from tracheobronchitis and a mild fever.
459
+ Yeltsin insists he has no major health problems.
460
+ Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev to sign economic agreements with Russia
461
+ The Justice Department and 20 states have brought antitrust suits against Microsoft
462
+ The case is playing out against a century of antitrust laws.
463
+ Both sides cite the same rulings to support their opposing arguments.
464
+ The government's most aggressive antitrust action in almost 25 years
465
+ Microsoft to be tried in the U.S.
466
+ The Justice department brought civil suit against Microsoft
467
+ The government accuses Microsoft of monopolistic practices
468
+ Microsoft asserts that the case is intended to give the government control
469
+ The contracts prohibit manufacturers from substituting Netscape's Navigator browser for Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
470
+ The Sherman Act was passed by Congress in 1890
471
+ Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan
472
+ Osama bin Laden was charged with conspiring to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa
473
+ Osama bin Laden was charged with conspiring to bomb the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam
474
+ A bomb exploded at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam killing 11 Americans and injuring over 160
475
+ the man Washington calls Enemy No. 1.
476
+ At least 26 people were killed.
477
+ Wadih El Hage, Mohamed Sadeek Odeh and Mohamed Rashed al-'Owhali were charged with murder
478
+ the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa
479
+ the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
480
+ The man accused of orchestrating the U.S. Embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya
481
+ Hariri is credited with restoring economic confidence and stabilizing the currency.
482
+ the president polled members of the 128-seat Parliament.
483
+ Rafik Hariri has almost single-handedly created a multibillion dollar program
484
+ The new president will be sworn in on Nov. 24
485
+ Lebanon's new president has the backing of Syria.
486
+ The British-trained general rebuilt the army after it disintegrated in the civil war.
487
+ Lebanon's parliament has elected popular army commander Emile Lahoud as its new president.
488
+ Lebanese President Lahoud has refused to reappoint Prime Minister Hariri.
489
+ He demanded that Lahoud admit that he acted unconstitutionally by allowing 31 Parliament deputies to authorize him to name a prime minister instead
490
+ Lebanese President Saad Hariri warned of renewed conflict over the alleged tampering with the constitution.
491
+ Qin was sentenced to 11 years.
492
+ The 13-year prison term was the longest for a Chinese dissident in three years.
493
+ Chinese courts sentenced dissidents Xu Wenli and Wang Youcai to 13 and 11 years
494
+ Xu was charged with inciting subversion
495
+ China sentences three prominent dissidents to long jail sentences.
496
+ China's action was in violation of an international treaty the country recently signed.
497
+ China sentences prominent dissidents to 13 years in prison
498
+ the dissidents' right to free speech and assembly.
499
+ the dissidents' right to free speech and assembly.
500
+ The detaining dissidents was in violation of China's constitution and international human rights law.
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/merges.txt ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/predict_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "predict_gen_len": 16.532,
3
+ "predict_loss": 3.293339252471924,
4
+ "predict_rouge1": 28.9673,
5
+ "predict_rouge2": 10.64,
6
+ "predict_rougeL": 25.7376,
7
+ "predict_rougeLsum": 25.7334,
8
+ "predict_runtime": 157.8572,
9
+ "predict_samples": 500,
10
+ "predict_samples_per_second": 3.167,
11
+ "predict_steps_per_second": 0.792
12
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/pytorch_model.bin ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
 
 
 
 
1
+ version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
2
+ oid sha256:f193b54a217a5004ada76bd517f523d8206905b676c81a5a8917af9bf3dcfa7c
3
+ size 1625549581
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/special_tokens_map.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "additional_special_tokens": [
3
+ "<h>",
4
+ "</h>"
5
+ ],
6
+ "bos_token": "<s>",
7
+ "cls_token": "<s>",
8
+ "eos_token": "</s>",
9
+ "mask_token": {
10
+ "content": "<mask>",
11
+ "lstrip": true,
12
+ "normalized": false,
13
+ "rstrip": false,
14
+ "single_word": false
15
+ },
16
+ "pad_token": "<pad>",
17
+ "sep_token": "</s>",
18
+ "unk_token": "<unk>"
19
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/tokenizer.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/tokenizer_config.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "add_prefix_space": false,
3
+ "bos_token": "<s>",
4
+ "cls_token": "<s>",
5
+ "eos_token": "</s>",
6
+ "errors": "replace",
7
+ "mask_token": "<mask>",
8
+ "model_max_length": 1024,
9
+ "name_or_path": "facebook/bart-large",
10
+ "pad_token": "<pad>",
11
+ "sep_token": "</s>",
12
+ "special_tokens_map_file": null,
13
+ "tokenizer_class": "BartTokenizer",
14
+ "trim_offsets": true,
15
+ "unk_token": "<unk>"
16
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/train_results.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "epoch": 9.96,
3
+ "train_loss": 1.644901360405816,
4
+ "train_runtime": 1076.0707,
5
+ "train_samples": 300,
6
+ "train_samples_per_second": 2.788,
7
+ "train_steps_per_second": 0.084
8
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/trainer_state.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {
2
+ "best_metric": null,
3
+ "best_model_checkpoint": null,
4
+ "epoch": 9.96,
5
+ "global_step": 90,
6
+ "is_hyper_param_search": false,
7
+ "is_local_process_zero": true,
8
+ "is_world_process_zero": true,
9
+ "log_history": [
10
+ {
11
+ "epoch": 5.53,
12
+ "eval_gen_len": 17.029411764705884,
13
+ "eval_loss": 3.244109630584717,
14
+ "eval_rouge1": 21.86,
15
+ "eval_rouge2": 7.5078,
16
+ "eval_rougeL": 19.2167,
17
+ "eval_rougeLsum": 19.2113,
18
+ "eval_runtime": 50.4779,
19
+ "eval_samples_per_second": 3.368,
20
+ "eval_steps_per_second": 0.852,
21
+ "step": 50
22
+ },
23
+ {
24
+ "epoch": 9.96,
25
+ "step": 90,
26
+ "total_flos": 2229933705068544.0,
27
+ "train_loss": 1.644901360405816,
28
+ "train_runtime": 1076.0707,
29
+ "train_samples_per_second": 2.788,
30
+ "train_steps_per_second": 0.084
31
+ }
32
+ ],
33
+ "max_steps": 90,
34
+ "num_train_epochs": 10,
35
+ "total_flos": 2229933705068544.0,
36
+ "trial_name": null,
37
+ "trial_params": null
38
+ }
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/training_args.bin ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
 
 
 
 
1
+ version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
2
+ oid sha256:55547a190158fa7b886b13468c69603402a588b71d839cd9fddcc091577ce472
3
+ size 3643
DUC/output_dir/sent_window_1_h_1_clusters/vocab.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/test.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/test.source ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/test.target ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,500 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ Cambodia King Norodom Sihanouk leaving strongman Hun Sen as Prime Minister and opposition leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh president of the National Assembly.
2
+ Prime Minister Hun Sen insisted that talks take place in Cambodia while opposition leaders Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy, fearing arrest at home, wanted them abroad.
3
+ Cambodian elections fraudulent gave the CPP of Hun Sen a scant majority but not enough to form its own government.
4
+ The announcement comes after months of bitter argument following the failure of any party
5
+ Rainey had been accused by Hun Sen of being behind an assassination attempt against him during massive street demonstrations in September.
6
+ The three-month governmental deadlock ended with Han Sen and his chief rival
7
+ fraudulent according to opposition parties
8
+ fraudulent according to opposition parties
9
+ in November the King announced a coalition government with Hun Sen
10
+ Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen rejects demands of 2 opposition parties for talks in Beijing after failing
11
+ The hurricane destroying crops and property.
12
+ Honduran death estimates grew from 32 to 231 in the first days
13
+ Hurricane Mitch roared across the northwest Caribbean
14
+ Hurricane winds, rain and floods caused massive damage to homes, businesses, roads and bridges.
15
+ Slow-moving Mitch battered the Honduran coast for 3 days.
16
+ The hurricane lingered off the coast of Honduras for 3 days before moving off
17
+ The European Union, international relief agencies, Mexico, the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, the U.K. and U.N. sent financial aid, relief workers and supplies.
18
+ Aid was sent from many sources
19
+ Hurricane winds, rain and floods caused massive damage to homes, businesses, roads and bridges.
20
+ Hurricane Mitch brought widespread death and destruction to Central American.
21
+ Spain is seeking extradition of Pinochet from London to Spain
22
+ Pinochet arrested in London on Oct. 16 at a Spanish judge's request for atrocities against Spaniards in Chile during his rule.
23
+ Pinochet arrested in London on Oct. 16 at a Spanish judge's request for atrocities against Spaniards in Chile during his rule.
24
+ Pinochet's wife and family pleaded that he was too sick to face extradition.
25
+ His wife asked for his release because he was recovering from recent back surgery.
26
+ a Spanish warrant charging murder of Spaniards in Chile
27
+ because he was recovering from recent back surgery.
28
+ The Swiss government asked for his arrest for the 1977 disappearance of a Swiss-Chilean student.
29
+ The Chilean government protested strongly.
30
+ Claims are Pinochet had diplomatic immunity
31
+ Following the bombings of the embassies in Africa the US began a full-scale assault on Osama bin Laden.
32
+ Following the bombings of the embassies in Africa the US began a full-scale assault on Osama bin Laden.
33
+ Bin Laden remains in Afghanistan by permission of the Taliban.
34
+ the terrorist network financed by Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden.
35
+ the terrorist network put together
36
+ Following the bombings of the embassies in Africa the US began a full-scale assault on Osama bin Laden.
37
+ the Taliban government of Afghanistan proclaimed bin Laden
38
+ the U.S .November charges were prepared against six men including bin Laden.
39
+ The Taliban says the US is using bin Laden as an excuse
40
+ Evidence shows Sudanese factory bombed by US
41
+ whether or not NBA players with guaranteed salary contracts should be paid during the owners' lockout.
42
+ Stalled labor dispute over NBA salaries cancels preseason games
43
+ The National Basketball Association joined the NHL when it canceled first the preseason games then two weeks of regular season.
44
+ On Oct. 5 all 114 preseason games were cancelled.
45
+ NBA owners and players plan meeting, which is unsuccessful.
46
+ players plan meeting is unsuccessful.
47
+ Meanwhile both sides are awaiting a ruling by arbitrator Feerick on whether $800 million in guaranteed salaries
48
+ In a dispute between the owners and NBA players over how to divide the $2 billion in league-wide income all preseason and the first 99 1998-1999 regular season games were cancelled.
49
+ The players then proposed a 50% tax on salaries above $18 million that
50
+ In litigation the main sticking point is the owner's insistence on a salary cap without exceptions.
51
+ They have taken their two-month campaign to the Internet to tell their side of the story.
52
+ They are accused of being puppets to Uganda and Rwanda.
53
+ of President Kabila, is accused of corruption and sowing dissent among Congo's 400 tribes.
54
+ Rebels downed a jetliner carrying 40 people from Kindu
55
+ Rebel groups, mostly Tutsis, but backed by Rawandas and Ugandans are fighting the Congolese government of President Kabila
56
+ Congo Tutsi rebels meet resistance as they enter Kindu and adjacent strategic government airbase.
57
+ At first the rebels advanced to the outskirts of the capital, Kinshasa
58
+ They launched an attack in Kindu
59
+ Congo Tutsi rebels meet resistance as they enter Kindu and adjacent strategic government airbase.
60
+ Heavy fighting has occurred near the village of Kindu
61
+ The coming Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Malaysia
62
+ the Malaysian Prime Minister fired
63
+ Host Malaysia is in disarray over the firing, arrest and trial of the deputy prime minister
64
+ He was charged with corruption and homosexual activity.
65
+ Philippine and Indonesian presidents may not attend upcoming APEC summit in Malaysia due to Mahathir's arrest of Anwar.
66
+ These men may not join the other 15 heads of state and the Taiwanese chief economic planner at the summit.
67
+ Malaysia viewed as a quick fix.
68
+ they prepare for the Asian-Pacific economic summit in late November.
69
+ APEC) forum scheduled for Nov. 14-18
70
+ the Malaysian Prime Minister expected successor who was very popular at home and abroad.
71
+ a busy Jerusalem market killing the two suicide bombers and injuring 21 Israelis.
72
+ After a bombing in a Jerusalem market Fri .the Israeli Cabinet postponed indefinitely its vote on the Wye River peace accord.
73
+ Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing
74
+ The Palestinian Authority claimed to have already made some
75
+ On Nov. 6 1998 a suicide auto-bomb attack on a Jerusalem market killed two Palestinian "martyrs
76
+ The Islamic Jihad promises more attacks in hope of derailing
77
+ Israel intends to continue building homes in Jerusalem, including in Arab sector.
78
+ Islamic Holy War vowing more to block the accord.
79
+ Israel including in Arab sector.
80
+ A car bomb exploded prematurely near a busy Jerusalem market
81
+ Anwar and a friend were charged with illegal homosexual activity.
82
+ Anwar differed with Mahathir over economic policy
83
+ Ibrahim Mohamed, was fired by Mahathir for being morally unfit for office.
84
+ Deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim once groomed as a successor
85
+ Thailand jailed former deputy minister
86
+ Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad fired Deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim
87
+ Anwar mounted a nationwide campaign against Mahathir before his arrest.
88
+ Thailand jailed former deputy minister
89
+ EU is concerned about reports of his abuse and hopes for appropriate actions.
90
+ a political opposition leading Mahathir to arrest him.
91
+ Yugoslav President Slbodan Milosevic stop anti-Albanian activity in Kosovo.
92
+ to end the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo or face NATO airstrikes.
93
+ Yugoslavia claims it is taking steps to comply with peace demands.
94
+ the situation is such that it could resume.
95
+ peace talks began.
96
+ U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke said the level of fighting may have abated but the situation is such
97
+ Neither side budged as NATO
98
+ Milosevic warning him of inevitable NATO air strikes.
99
+ Yugoslav generals then pulled some armored equipment out of Kosovo as a compromise.
100
+ Yugoslav President Slbodan Milosevic stop anti-Albanian activity in Kosovo.
101
+ Poor harvests, floods and droughts contributed to the problem
102
+ the U.N. reported that 65% of the children under 7 showed stunted growth.
103
+ North Korea entered its fourth winter of chronic food shortage in 1998.
104
+ N. Korea will have another poor harvest this year
105
+ the U.N. reported that 65% of the children under 7 showed stunted growth.
106
+ In 1997 the nation produced only 2.8 million tons of grain of the 4.5 million
107
+ the 4.5 million required to feed its 23 million people.
108
+ famine and a failed public health system had produced a generation of physically and mentally impaired children.
109
+ Two thirds of children under age 7 are malnourished
110
+ The government distributed nutritionless substitutes
111
+ Thailand was able to meet construction deadlines and open the 13th annual Asian Games to participants from 43 countries.
112
+ Thailand to host the Asian Games
113
+ Later they considered sending a "small team
114
+ The games have not been without controversy.
115
+ Thailand was able to meet construction deadlines and open the 13th annual Asian Games to participants from 43 countries.
116
+ The Asian Games scheduled for Bangkok Dec. 6-20
117
+ National rivalries were Apparent in a snooker game between India and Pakistan
118
+ there was question whether the sports complex for the games would be completed in time.
119
+ the banning of Iran's equestrian team horses for not being disease free
120
+ its 105-man team citing the approach of Ramadan but more likely for past grievances with the Thais.
121
+ Fellow dissident Xu Wenli for trying to form an opposition party.
122
+ Another CDP leader Youcai, was accused of "inciting the overthrow of the government
123
+ Fellow dissident Xu Wenli for trying to form an opposition party.
124
+ Another CDP leader Youcai, was accused of "inciting the overthrow of the government
125
+ In making the arrests China has charged that the dissidents have threatened national security.
126
+ the PRC cites a "grab-bag" section of the criminal code
127
+ Eight weeks after signing the ICCPR Chinese police arrested Qin and an associate in the China Democracy Party (CDP)
128
+ Eight weeks after signing the ICCPR Chinese police arrested Qin and an associate in the China Democracy Party (CDP)
129
+ Other dissidents arrested.
130
+ On the eve of China's signing the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in October 1998 police detained Chinese human rights advocate Qin Yongmin for questioning.
131
+ both houses retained a narrowed GOP majority,
132
+ Republicans lost seats in both the House and Senate.
133
+ Gingrich had been seen as the man
134
+ the Margin of Republican control shrank in the face of Democratic gains.
135
+ the Margin of Republican control shrank in the face of Democratic gains.
136
+ When, contrary to all predictions the Democrats gained five seats in the House
137
+ both houses fixation was blamed for the failures by both wings of his party.
138
+ of Newt Gingrich, had become Speaker in 1994
139
+ the vote comes up on November 18th.
140
+ Republicans blaming Gingrich for the election results.
141
+ In a bid AOL will buy Netscape
142
+ In a bid AOL will buy Netscape
143
+ The AOL deal Netscape, would combined three Microsoft rivals.
144
+ Microsoft lawyers argued unconvincingly that AOL's purchase of Netscape would undermine the government's antitrust case
145
+ the government continued to press its anti-trust suit against Microsoft
146
+ AOL was to buy Netscape and forge a partnership with Sun, benefiting all three and giving technological independence from Microsoft.
147
+ AOL is counting on the Netscape purchase to allow it to expand its internet Market by helping business operate on the internet in an effort
148
+ The venture will let AOL offer corporations end-to-end services, including servers, software, and accessibility to consumers.
149
+ Netscape alleges that Microsoft marketing practices, packaging its Internet Explorer in its operating system denied market opportunities to Netscape.
150
+ The AOL deal Netscape, would combined three Microsoft rivals.
151
+ Russia is considering hard currency controls, demanding IMF loans
152
+ Primakov then assured the public that "there is no program
153
+ In Russia Prime Minister Primakov had no plan to solve the problem as the economy
154
+ Russia and Ukraine have been especially hard hit by the crisis.
155
+ Key issues were stopping dollars from leaving the country and getting foreign investment end IMF loans.
156
+ IMF is worried about the turndown in Japan, economic meltdown in Russia, depression in Indonesia, and anxiety about Latin America
157
+ Russia's economic confusion is upsetting the US.
158
+ Russia will not end government privatization.
159
+ when word leaked Yeltsin denounced it.
160
+ Primakov suggesting that there would not be until the International Monetary Fund (IMF) came forth with a massive loan.
161
+ Tensions between Syria and Turkey increased as Turkey sent 10,000 troops to its border with Syria.
162
+ Lebanon That Israel is the cause of the tensions between Syria and Turkey.
163
+ Tensions rose between Syria and Turkey over claims that Syria harbored Kurdish rebels, Turkey's growing ties with Israel, and Turkish dams on the Euphrates.
164
+ Syria denied the charges and blamed
165
+ Fighting with Kurdish rebels began in 1984.
166
+ Tensions between Syria and Turkey increased as Turkey sent 10,000 troops to its border with Syria.
167
+ On October 1 Turkey later sent jets along
168
+ Egypt's President traveled to Syria and Turkey to mediate.
169
+ Turkey warned Syria it could no longer tolerate Syria's sheltering Kurdish rebels in Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
170
+ The dispute comes amid accusations by Turkey
171
+ Huge seas and gale-force winds have battered the 115-boat fleet
172
+ two seamen on the Business Post Naiad were killed.
173
+ One sailor Charles, was swept off the yacht Sword of Orion
174
+ Numerous crewmen including an American John
175
+ One sailor Charles, was swept off the yacht Sword of Orion
176
+ By dusk of the third day three three missing, many injured and about half of the 115 yachts were forced out of the race.
177
+ Search and rescue efforts were stretched to the limit as three yachts
178
+ Yachts Solo Globe and Winston Churchill went missing as did B-52
179
+ Yachts Solo Globe and Winston Churchill as did B-52 which was later found.
180
+ In Bass Strait boats rolled in heavy seas and crewmen
181
+ Sunday astronauts joining the Russian-made Zarya control module cylinder
182
+ A 2nd attempt Friday was perfect.
183
+ a blind docking using cameras and computer images.
184
+ The astronauts' job was to connect Unity with the already-orbiting Zarya as the first step in assembling 100 major components of the planned space station.
185
+ Using the shuttle's 50-foot robot arm
186
+ the American-made module to form a 70,000 pounds mass 77 feet long.
187
+ Unity was attached to Zarya in a blind docking using cameras and computer images.
188
+ Sunday astronauts joining the Russian-made Zarya control module cylinder
189
+ Endeavour astronauts successfully completed the complicated maneuvers to join the two space objects.
190
+ U.S. plans to launch the space shuttle Endeavour carrying the U.S. module Unity and six astronauts
191
+ Eleven countries were to adopt a common European currency, the euro, on Dec. 31
192
+ Eleven European nations lowered key interest rates in preparation for the conversion.
193
+ Eleven countries were to adopt a common European currency, the euro, on Dec. 31
194
+ the European Central Bank governs the euro
195
+ When the head--serving an 8-year term the nations spurring the market.
196
+ When the head--serving an 8-year term the European Central Bank expressed fear of a slowing economy
197
+ The Paris, London, and Frankfurt stock exchanges have formed an alliance.
198
+ growth is slowing
199
+ Britain, Denmark, Sweden, and Greece are not part of it.
200
+ inflation fell to an average 0.9%.
201
+ After Portugal left East Timor Indonesia annexed it.
202
+ dead, wounded and missing reported
203
+ East Timorese accused Indonesian troops of yet another massacre of civilians
204
+ Indonesian troop attacks on unarmed E. Timor civilians are claimed.
205
+ East Timorese accused Indonesian troops of yet another massacre of civilians
206
+ Violence has also occurred in Jakarta and west Timor.
207
+ Australians protested against training Indonesian military
208
+ Indonesia invaded it in 1975
209
+ East Timorese accused Indonesian troops of yet another massacre of civilians
210
+ Australia trained Indonesian officers to monitor human rights.
211
+ 1998's Nobel prize for literature went to a Portuguese for the 1st time, imaginative novelist Jose Saramago
212
+ the first Portuguese language writer to win.
213
+ The 1978 committee wanted to give the Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter
214
+ The 1998 Nobel for medicine was awarded to three US researchers for discoveries with nitric oxide.
215
+ Prizes are awarded on Dec. 10th
216
+ 1980s discoveries concerning nitric oxide's function in the body
217
+ Saramago was weary of hearing again that this year
218
+ 3 Americans won in medicine for 1980s discoveries
219
+ This year's winner is 75-year old Jose Saramago
220
+ this time he did
221
+ his appointment is seen as a "bullet of mercy" for the Middle East peace process.
222
+ In a move widely viewed as an effort Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu named hardliner Ariel Sharon foreign minister and chief peace negotiator.
223
+ Lebanese Christian militiamen slaughtered hundreds of unarmed Palestinians.
224
+ In a move widely viewed as an effort Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu named hardliner Ariel Sharon foreign minister and chief peace negotiator.
225
+ Many blame Sharon for a 1982 massacre of Palestinian civilians at refugee camps in Lebanon.
226
+ Arabs said the hard-line, right-wing, warrior and former defense minister would kill any progress for a settlement in the mid-East.
227
+ His appointment the two territory and is seen as an effort
228
+ an effort to placate the far right as he moves to withdraw from more West Bank land
229
+ a move to scuttle the peace effort.
230
+ he was appointed some thought that Netanyahu was placating Israel's far right wing while striving for peace.
231
+ however IOC member Marc Hodler alleges widespread corruption.
232
+ Salt Lake Olympic bidders gave $400,000 in scholarships to 13 IOC relatives in the first case of host-city bribery.
233
+ In 1995 Salt Lake City was chosen to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.
234
+ IOC President Samaranch vowed to expel any guilty member.
235
+ Hodler went on to allege similar malpractice in choosing other Olympic sites
236
+ The IOC's Marc Hodler says agents and a member
237
+ relatives of International Olympic Committee (IOC) members had received $400,000 in scholarships from promoters of Salt Lake City
238
+ Senior IOC official Marc Hodler called the scholarships a "bribe
239
+ Olympic Games offer IOC members bribes to favor their city.
240
+ IOC President Samaranch ordered Hodler to keep quiet.
241
+ The airport's opening and the stipulation that Israel would control the airspace and monitor passengers were included in the U.S. brokered Wye River accord.
242
+ tensions developed when Israeli security officials delayed two planes from taking off
243
+ An Egypt Air plane was the first to land
244
+ two planes from taking off when Palestinian workers refused to let them check a passenger's identity.
245
+ Gaza International Airport opened on Nov. 24, 1998 with arrival of an Egypt Air flight
246
+ An Egypt Air plane was the first to land
247
+ the U.S. brokered Wye River accord.
248
+ Since Wye Israel and the Palestinians have accused each other of failing to honor its provisions.
249
+ Since Wye Israel and the Palestinians have accused each other of failing to honor its provisions.
250
+ the U.S. brokered Wye River accord.
251
+ On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 1988 downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie there is hope that the Libya suspects might soon be brought to trial.
252
+ The UN, US,and Britain continue to press Libya to turn over the two Libyans accused of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie
253
+ The UN, US,and Britain continue to press Libya to turn over the two Libyans accused of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie
254
+ UN Secretary General Annan goes to Libya for talks aimed at bringing the suspects to trial.
255
+ UN General Secretary Kofi Annan has met with Libyan officials and an agreement
256
+ Libya has agreed to a trial for the two by a Scottish court in the Netherlands
257
+ The UN, US,and Britain continue to press Libya to turn over the two Libyans accused of the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie
258
+ Libya has been under a UN flight ban since 1992 in an effort
259
+ UN clearance to fly to Libya.
260
+ UN sanctions barring air travel force Gadhafi to travel by land
261
+ Turkey pressured Italy to extradite Ocalan
262
+ Kurds in staging demonstrations and hunger strikes.
263
+ they consider a terrorist.
264
+ He asked for asylum.
265
+ Turkey he faces the death penalty
266
+ The leader of the Kurdish rebel group Ocalan, was arrested at Rome's international airport on Thursday.
267
+ the Kurdish rebel group fighting for autonomy in southeast Turkey
268
+ The arrest set off a wave of protests throughout Europe
269
+ Abdullah Ocalan Party, was detained in the Rome airport
270
+ Kurds in staging demonstrations and hunger strikes.
271
+ Exxon Corp and Mobil Corp to be discussing a business merger.
272
+ for a merger would create the world's largest oil company.
273
+ Low crude oil prices and the high cost of exploration are motives for a merger
274
+ A possible Exxon-Mobil merger would reunite 2 parts of Standard Oil
275
+ The merger, and talks like it among other oil companies is being prompted By low petroleum prices and high production costs.
276
+ Exxon Corp and Mobil Corp to be discussing a business merger.
277
+ In a move considered unthinkable a few years ago Exxon Corp. and Mobile Corp, have entered into negotiations
278
+ The new company would be largest in the US
279
+ the companies merge
280
+ The merger, and talks like it among other oil companies is being prompted By low petroleum prices and high production costs.
281
+ House Speaker-elect Robert L. Livingston was forced to admit to his Republican colleagues his past adultery.
282
+ During the Clinton impeachment debate in the House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston declared that he would set an example for the president and resign from Congress over revelations of his marital infidelities.
283
+ Democrats said that Livingston should not quit and that the Speaker-elect's resignation was, in the words of Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y), "
284
+ During the Clinton impeachment debate in the House Speaker-elect Bob Livingston declared that he would set an example for the president and resign from Congress over revelations of his marital infidelities.
285
+ House members were stunned by an admission from House Speaker elect
286
+ The House called on the Senate to try him.
287
+ The House called on the Senate to try him
288
+ In resigning Livingston called on President Clinton to do the same.
289
+ The House convict him
290
+ The House remove him from office.
291
+ U.S. astronauts aboard the Endeavor shuttle then joined the Unity chamber to the Russian Zarya control module.
292
+ Russia launched the first piece of the international space station into orbit a year
293
+ The Zarya module orbited Earth for 2 weeks before a rendezvous with U.S. shuttle Endeavor to join it to the Unity module.
294
+ Zarya will provide propulsion, power, and comms.
295
+ The first 2 building blocks of the international space station were successfully joined by Endeavor astronauts in the shuttle's open cargo bay.
296
+ Russia launched the first piece of the international space station into orbit a year
297
+ Russia sold early research time on the station to NASA to pay construction costs
298
+ Unity will be a connecting passageway for other modules.
299
+ NASA and the Russian Space Agency readied the first part of an international space station for launch from Baikonur base.
300
+ After a year's delay Russia launched the first unit of the international space station
301
+ Brazil is also negotiating with the IMF for a $30 billion bail-out package.
302
+ Cardoso readies his plan for spending cuts and tax increases as part of the IMF deal.
303
+ the downturn in the global economy could have dire consequences.
304
+ The US, fearing the rest of the Americas would follow a Brazilian economic collapse
305
+ the IMF to secure loans needed to bolster its economy.
306
+ Brazil President Cardoso will announce deficit-cutting austerity measures.
307
+ Brazil is also negotiating with the IMF for a $30 billion bail-out package.
308
+ Brazil President Cardoso will announce deficit-cutting austerity measures.
309
+ The U.S. will give billions of taxpayer dollars to the Brazil-IMF rescue deal.
310
+ Latin leaders at Ibero-American summit explore ways to avoid economic turmoil and warn of likely global recession.
311
+ an underground site feared to house a nuclear weapons program.
312
+ In August US intelligence found a underground construction site near North Korea's nuclear complex.
313
+ North Korea denies the concerns
314
+ an underground site feared to house a nuclear weapons program.
315
+ N. Korea says the U.S. is pushing it to the brink of war over demands for inspections and talks.
316
+ S. Korea says N. Korea may be producing plutonium in at least one underground site.
317
+ South Korea supports the U.S. and calls for full access to the site by U.S. inspectors.
318
+ North Korea proposes a $300 mil payment to visit the site.
319
+ South Korea supports the U.S. and calls for full access to the site by U.S. inspectors.
320
+ South Korea supports the U.S. and calls for full access to the site by U.S. inspectors.
321
+ A gay group may back D'Amato
322
+ Sen. D'Amato sidesteps queries
323
+ The NY senate race between Republican D'Amato and Schumer was one of the tightest in the nation.
324
+ the prospect of which is upsetting Democrats.
325
+ A gay group may back D'Amato
326
+ President Clinton's impeachment woes are causing problems for the approaching mid-term elections.
327
+ Republican Voinovich hopes to take the seat of retiring John Glenn in Ohio.
328
+ In Ohio Republican Voinovich is in a crucial face-off with Democrat Mary Boyles.
329
+ In tight congressional and Senate races strategists and candidates were unsure how to deal with the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
330
+ A gay group may back D'Amato
331
+ The war crimes tribunal acquitted a Muslim military commander of war crimes against Bosnian Serb prisoners
332
+ The war crimes tribunal acquitted a Muslim military commander of war crimes against Bosnian Serb prisoners
333
+ he confessed to 12 killings.
334
+ Croat commander Mucic was convicted for permitting atrocities.
335
+ A Bosnian Serb admitted killing Muslims and Croats.
336
+ he confessed to 12 killings.
337
+ The tribunal convicted 3 underlings.
338
+ Allied forces arrested a Bosnian Serb general
339
+ Serb Adolf" Goran Jelisic told to go kill Muslims.
340
+ in The Hague the genocide trial of Goran Jelisic ," has begun.
341
+ Clinton will visit Israel, Gaza and the West bank Dec. 12-15
342
+ Clinton traveled to the mid-East in December in an effort
343
+ a vote to revoke a 1964 call to destroy Israel.
344
+ Netanyahu says Arafat is "making a farce" of the Wye accord.
345
+ Palestinian leaders revoke a 1964 Israeli destruction clause.
346
+ an effort to energize the Wye agreement
347
+ Netanyahu continues to withdraw troops from the West Bank as stipulated in the agreement.
348
+ Clinton will visit Israel, Gaza and the West bank Dec. 12-15
349
+ Netanyahu says Arafat is "making a farce" of the Wye accord.
350
+ Netanyahu probably still will be voted out of office.
351
+ Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in Parliament, 313 - 312.
352
+ Italy's Communist Refounding Party rejected Prime Minister Prodi's proposed 1999 budget.
353
+ Scalfaro must decide whether to hold new elections or to ask Prodi or someone else to forge a new majority.
354
+ appealed to Parliament to save the government with a confidence vote
355
+ Prodi was asked to remain as caretaker prime minister
356
+ fell from power.
357
+ The defection imperils the future of the center-left coalition
358
+ Prodi met with President Scalfaro and Parliament
359
+ Prodi resigned
360
+ Prodi resigned
361
+ The heads of 4 kidnapped foreign telephone engineers
362
+ Chechnya's top prosecutor Tagirov, was abducted from Grozny
363
+ The heads of 4 kidnapped foreign telephone engineers were found in Chechnya.
364
+ Chechen police are searching for the beheaded bodies.
365
+ The Chechen prosecutor then abducted.
366
+ A French UN official held hostage for 10 months
367
+ Tagirov was investigating the slaying of four kidnapped foreigners.
368
+ He later freed as was a UN official
369
+ The victims, all telephone linemen Telecom, were beheaded in a bungled rescue attempt.
370
+ A French UN official held hostage for 10 months
371
+ She planned to run again in 2000.
372
+ Liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starovoitova was gunned down in St. Petersburg.
373
+ She was barred on technicalities.
374
+ She tried to run for president in 1996
375
+ Liberal Russian lawmaker Galina Starovoitova was gunned down in St. Petersburg.
376
+ an aide wounded in an attack in St. Petersburg.
377
+ Galina Starovoitova was killed and an aide
378
+ Galina Starovoitova was murdered and her
379
+ Her aide was seriously wounded.
380
+ an aide wounded in an attack in St. Petersburg.
381
+ South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is releasing its final 2.5- year report.
382
+ The ANC came under fire for committing some atrocities during the struggle.
383
+ While the white government bore the brunt of the blame several black movements were included.
384
+ Former president de Klerk was not named as an accessory after the fact
385
+ Its purpose to identify those who committed gross violations of human rights.
386
+ De Klerk threatened to sue if he was mentioned in connection with the atrocities.
387
+ De Klerk threatened to sue if he was mentioned in connection with the atrocities.
388
+ the part played in such violations.
389
+ The ANC came under fire for committing some atrocities during the struggle.
390
+ since his threatened lawsuit would delay the report.
391
+ A 22-year old gay University of Wyoming student left to die lashed to a fence.
392
+ A 22-year old gay University of Wyoming student was found beaten
393
+ 1,000 people mourned Matthew Shepherd
394
+ Two men in Wyoming kidnapped brutally beat a gay university student who died in a coma five days after the assault.
395
+ 1,000 people mourned Matthew Shepherd
396
+ Seeing this as a hate crime, gay-rights activists nationwide renewed efforts
397
+ Two men in Wyoming kidnapped brutally beat a gay university student who died in a coma five days after the assault.
398
+ Two men in Wyoming kidnapped brutally beat a gay university student who died in a coma five days after the assault.
399
+ nearly lifeless body tied to a fence outside Laramie
400
+ Two men Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney attempted first degree murder.
401
+ Turkey's Prime Minister Yilmaz was ousted by a no-confidence vote in Parliament over allegations of interfering in a bank privatization and having mob ties.
402
+ President Demirel asked highly respected 3-time former PM Bulent Ecevit to form a new majority government.
403
+ Turkey's Prime Minister Yilmaz was ousted by a no-confidence vote in Parliament over allegations of interfering in a bank privatization and having mob ties.
404
+ Turkish PM Yilmaz was forced to step down due to mob ties and claims of state bank privatization tampering.
405
+ two to form a coalition, which would satisfy the staunchly secular military.
406
+ Following charges that he interfered in a privatization contract and helped a businessman with mob ties Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz was forced to resign.
407
+ Following charges that he interfered in a privatization contract and helped a businessman with mob ties Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz was forced to resign.
408
+ He to win the support of Ciller for a secular coalition.
409
+ President Demirel asked highly respected 3-time former PM Bulent Ecevit to form a new majority government.
410
+ New premier-designate Erez got backing from 2 key secular parties as he tried to form a broad-based secular coalition
411
+ Another itinerant demonstrator Kopp, is wanted by the FBI as a material witness in the Slepian murder.
412
+ James Kopp known abortion opponent
413
+ Dr. Bart Shepian of Buffalo's only abortion clinic was murdered in his home.
414
+ James Kopp for questioning as a material witness in the slaying.
415
+ Police in the US and Canada are looking for James Kopp,
416
+ On Oct. 23, 1998 a sniper killed Dr. Barnet Slepian
417
+ The primary doctor at the last abortion clinic in Buffalo was shot
418
+ Opposition ranges from silent vigils to vocal and physical intimidation
419
+ James Kopp known abortion opponent
420
+ The anti-abortion movement has local and itinerate members.
421
+ Sweden's deadliest fire occurred on Halloween when a dance hall in Goteborg
422
+ At least 60 died about 150 were injured.
423
+ At least 400 teenagers attending dance, were crammed into a facility
424
+ the fire quickly engulfed the two-story brick building
425
+ The fire was the worst in Sweden's modern history.
426
+ At least 60 died mostly from smoke inhalation
427
+ Most were immigrants or their children
428
+ Sweden killed 60 and injured 180.
429
+ The cause of the fire is unknown as investigators
430
+ The 2-story brick building was rated for 150
431
+ The New York Yankees prevailed in the sixth game of the American League playoffs to win over the Cleveland Indians and advanced to their second World Series play in three years.
432
+ The Yankees have a edge in pitching and defense
433
+ Ace pitcher Kevin Brown viewed by many as the Padres' best hope for a series upset
434
+ NY fans are subdued about the Yankees prospects of a collective batting slump (namely by Knoblauch and Martinez), Strawberry's surgery recovery, record-setter Williams' team loyalty, and the memory of the fallibility of umpires.
435
+ The Yankees have a edge in pitching and defense
436
+ Ace pitcher Kevin Brown viewed by many as the Padres' best hope for a series upset
437
+ The Yankees have a edge in pitching and defense
438
+ their record of excellence encouraged everyone to expect victory.
439
+ Knoblauch hit a three-run homer off reliever Donne Wall in the seventh inning
440
+ Yankees Chuck Knoblauch playoffs, was greeted with a standing ovation as the first game
441
+ Controversial issues included health insurance paying for contraception, control of new education allocations, an Alaskan wilderness road
442
+ new initiatives made the 1998 federal budget negotiations chaotic.
443
+ There how to spend the funding on education.
444
+ To offset the new spending
445
+ After several deadline extensions Congressional leaders and the White House agreed on an omnibus spending package
446
+ This year reaching agreement was very difficult.
447
+ It includes more money for education and defense, business tax breaks, and farm aid, as well as funds for Colombia
448
+ Committees crafted the budget document after broad agreement was reached
449
+ both sides to finish before Election Day and avoid a government shutdown.
450
+ Other issues included a Federal Election Commission provision, a road through an Alaskan wildlife refuge, and an airline peanut ban.
451
+ He recently cut short a trip to Central Asia because of a respiratory infection
452
+ Concern over the health of President Boris Yeltsin has led many Russians to question his ability
453
+ Yeltsin refuses to admit he is seriously ill and his condition
454
+ Russia's constitutional court to hold hearings on whether Yeltsin could seek a third term under their two term limitations
455
+ That to be moot point since he has said he will not run again.
456
+ Doctors say his health is more or less normal but secrecy increases conjecture.
457
+ He was treated with antibiotics
458
+ He was ordered to rest and take antibiotics.
459
+ his health is more or less normal but secrecy increases conjecture.
460
+ the trip ended a day early because of his bronchitis and a 99.3F fever.
461
+ The Justice Department and 20 states filed a suit against Microsoft for violation of the Sherman Act
462
+ The government suit against Microsoft is the most aggressive antitrust case in a quarter century.
463
+ its wording is broad and rulings
464
+ The effort is extensive but inconsistent because of the ambiguity of anti-trust laws, especially the Sherman Act.
465
+ The Justice Department and 20 states charging it illegally tried to use its dominance as the provider of Windows, the industry standard operating system, to stifle competition in other areas.
466
+ In 1998 the Justice Department filed a civil suit against Microsoft to change its 9-year pattern of anti-competitive conduct.
467
+ The suit now extends far beyond that aiming at Microsoft's overall aggressive anti-competitive conduct.
468
+ Microsoft says that Windows and its browser is one tool
469
+ computer manufacturers prohibit them from substituting Netscape's Navigator browser for Microsoft's Internet Explorer
470
+ The 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act was intended to protect consumers
471
+ of bin Laden, is living in Afghanistan under Taliban protection
472
+ Osama bin Laden was indicted for terrorism and for conspiring in the bombings.
473
+ The attacks killed 224 and injured
474
+ A near simultaneous bombing of the embassy in Dar es Salaam killed 11
475
+ Bin Laden to be in Afghanistan
476
+ Terrorists killing 213, 12 of
477
+ Three other suspects are being sought.
478
+ Seven men have been arrested for the Aug. 7 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
479
+ Two were in a New York City jail
480
+ The Taliban has declared him a free man in Afghanistan
481
+ a businessman rebuilt the country and economy
482
+ 31 of 128 legislators leaving it to the president to name the next prime minister.
483
+ a businessman rebuilt the country and economy
484
+ Army Commander and Maronite Catholic Emile Lahoud was named Lebanon's president for the next 6 years
485
+ He had the backing of Syrian President Assad, the powerbroker in Lebanon,
486
+ Lahoud rebuilt the army
487
+ Army commander Emile Lahoud was elected to a 6-year term as President by the Parliament
488
+ Prime minister Rafik Hariri expected to get a fourth term but a conflict with the new president
489
+ 31 of 128 legislators leaving it to the president to name the next prime minister.
490
+ Prime minister Rafik Hariri expected to get a fourth term but a conflict with the new president
491
+ Xu Wenli, Wang Youchai, and Qin Yongmin sentenced to 13, 11, and 12 years in prison
492
+ Xu Wenli, Wang Youchai, and Qin Yongmin sentenced to 13, 11, and 12 years in prison
493
+ rights treaties and dissidents used new laws to set up China Democracy Party
494
+ Xu Wenli, Wang Youchai, and Qin Yongmin Party, were found guilty of subversion
495
+ Three prominent leaders of the China Democratic Party were put to trial and sentenced to 11-, 12- and 13-year prison terms.
496
+ The harsh sentences and speeches signal a crackdown on dissent, but Zha Jianguo says he will continue to push for change.
497
+ Xu Wenli, Wang Youchai, and Qin Yongmin sentenced to 13, 11, and 12 years in prison
498
+ After 2 years of wooing the West apparently relaxing controls on free speech
499
+ The US trade-driven policy of expanded ties encouraging Chinese democracy
500
+ After 2 years of wooing the releasing
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/train.json ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/train.source ADDED
The diff for this file is too large to render. See raw diff
 
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/train.target ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,300 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ Pinochet was charged with murdering thousands, including many Spaniards.
2
+ Chile insisting that Pinochet had diplomatic immunity.
3
+ Pinochet in London for back surgery, was arrested in a Spanish warrant accusing him of genocide and terrorism.
4
+ Chile protested that Pinochet had diplomatic immunity.
5
+ Augusto Pinochet dictator, was arrested in London on 14 October 1998.
6
+ Pinochet ruled Chile as a despot for 17 years
7
+ he was dictator of Chile between 1973 and 1900.
8
+ The Madrid court including genocide and terrorism
9
+ Pinochet was charged with murdering thousands, including many Spaniards.
10
+ The arrest was in response to an extradition warrant
11
+ Osama bin Laden living in Afghanistan
12
+ to bomb the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
13
+ A U.S. federal court returned a 238-count indictment against Saudi exile Osama bin Laden for conspiring to bomb two U.S. embassies in Africa and committing other acts of terrorism.
14
+ to bomb the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya
15
+ Osama bin Laden committing acts of terrorism against Americans abroad
16
+ Osama bin Laden was indicted in New York on November 3, 1998 on 238 counts
17
+ At the urging of the U.S .Saudi Arabian officials attempted to persuade the Taliban's leader to deport in Laden from Afghanistan
18
+ US prosecutors charged bin Laden with conspiring to bomb US embassies and terrorism against Americans abroad.
19
+ a U.S court indicted Saudi businessman Osama
20
+ Bin Laden is possibly in Afghanistan
21
+ On Friday morning a red Fiat blew up at a market in Jerusalem.
22
+ A car bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market Friday killing two assailants and wounding 21 Israelis.
23
+ The militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.
24
+ A car bomb exploded in a Jerusalem market Friday killing two assailants and wounding 21 Israelis.
25
+ It exploded killing the bombers and injuring 24
26
+ The Islamic Jihad was blamed for the blast
27
+ The militant group Hamas claimed responsibility.
28
+ Arafat castigated Netanyahu for using the bombing as an excuse to derail the accord.
29
+ A bomb-loaded car exploded near a busy Jerusalem market killing the bombers and injuring 21 others.
30
+ A bomb-loaded car exploded near a busy Jerusalem market killing the bombers and injuring 21 others.
31
+ The meteors are mostly microscopic fragments of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
32
+ that the 1998 meteor shower would be intense.
33
+ The Leonid meteor showers occur every 33 years as the Tempel-Tuttle comet speeds
34
+ The Leonid meteor shower consisted of small fragments from the Comet Temple-Tuttle.
35
+ the rate meteors hit the atmosphere during the great 1966 Leonid storm.
36
+ As the 1998 showers approached scientists disagreed about the vulnerability of the 600 odd commercial and military earth orbit satellites.
37
+ the rate meteors hit the atmosphere during the great 1966 Leonid storm.
38
+ The Earth encounters Leonid meteors every year on about the same date
39
+ The meteors are mostly microscopic fragments of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
40
+ This year Asians were treated to the most spectacular view.
41
+ The flight, bound for Geneva from New York killing all 229 people onboard.
42
+ Wreckage showed evidence of high heat and heat damaged wiring above the cockpit area
43
+ A final determination of the crashes cause is still far off.
44
+ a power supply routed through the cockpit.
45
+ The pilots reported smoke in the cockpit 16 minutes before the crash.
46
+ All 229 people aboard Swissair's New York-to-Geneva flight 111 died when the MD-11 airliner plunged into the sea off the Nova Scotia coast on September 2, 1998.
47
+ Swiss Air insisting that the system was installed correctly, has disconnected the system in other aircraft as a precaution.
48
+ Following the crash Swissair voluntarily disconnected its video-on-demand systems because they were connected to a power supply
49
+ Swiss Air insisting that the system was installed correctly, has disconnected the system in other aircraft as a precaution.
50
+ the Interactive Flight Technologies entertainment system installed on its remaining MD-11s and Boeing 747s after investigators of the crash of Swissair Flight 111
51
+ China dominated aquatic events.
52
+ Women divers expect platform gold but stiff springboard competition from Kazakstan.
53
+ Women divers expect platform gold but stiff springboard competition from Kazakstan.
54
+ Even impoverished North Korea planned to send 317 athletes and officials.
55
+ the Asian Games held in Bangkok
56
+ Afghanistan to be the only country certain not to attend.
57
+ Kazakhstan has hopes of taking the gold in women's diving
58
+ India hopes to defeat favorite South Korea in field hockey and regain its dominance in that sport.
59
+ Afghanistan will not send athletes because of costs and representational questions.
60
+ China dominated aquatic events.
61
+ Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was re-elected in the first round of the election with 56 percent of the vote
62
+ The IMF and the U.S. could provide an aid package pending evidence of a promising economic recovery plan
63
+ The nation hoped for a relief package from the International Monetary Fund.
64
+ The IMF and the U.S. could provide an aid package pending evidence of a promising economic recovery plan
65
+ Brazil was in the midst of an economic crisis
66
+ the financial turmoil began in Southeast Asia with foreign investment pullouts.
67
+ of a promising economic recovery plan would cut government expenses.
68
+ Brazil's economic woes dominated the political scene as President Cardoso faced re-election.
69
+ Cardoso promised an austere program to ensure financial credibility.
70
+ trade and budget deficits and the need for tax and budget reforms to curb spending kept the economic picture in serious straits.
71
+ Turkey accuses Syria of abetting Kurdish rebel activity in Turkey
72
+ Tensions between Turkey and Syria have reached a point causing the top Turkish military commander
73
+ Turkey accuses Syria of abetting Kurdish rebel activity in Turkey
74
+ Syria accuses Turkey of forming military and diplomatic alliances with Israel
75
+ Turkey has attacked Kurdish bases in Iraq
76
+ Damascus denies sheltering Kurdish fighters.
77
+ Egypt's President Mubarak plans to continue to Ankara hoping to defuse the crisis.
78
+ Turkey masses troops on its Syrian border.
79
+ Turkish jets buzzed the border.
80
+ In an effort Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has flown to Syria and Turkey.
81
+ ~ Indonesia invaded East Timor in December 1975
82
+ Indonesia annexed the territory in 1975
83
+ Indonesia had offered East Timor some autonomy
84
+ Portugal and East Timorese pro-independence groups insist that a referendum be held to decide East Timor's future.
85
+ The United Nations was trying to mediate an agreement between Portugal and Indonesia.
86
+ Portugal is trying to extradite former President Suharto for alleged human rights abuses
87
+ rebels three Indonesian soldiers died.
88
+ In 1991 Indonesian troops massacred at least 50 pro- independence protesters.
89
+ The East Timor Human Rights Center accused the Indonesian military of executing 50 East Timorese
90
+ Indonesia annexed the territory in 1975
91
+ Jubilation erupted among Palestinian airport officials and passengers as the first Palestinian flight
92
+ Early operations were disrupted by Israeli-Palestinian security disputes.
93
+ After a delay of almost two years because of security questions the Palestinians opened their first international airport in a rare example of cooperation between Israel and Palestine.
94
+ Israel retains control over Gaza airspace and security over arriving passengers and cargo.
95
+ An Egypt Air plane was the first to touch down at the newly opened Gaza International Airport.
96
+ Since Wye, Israel and Palestine have accused one another of reneging on agreements
97
+ Israeli officials soon threatened to close the airport and delayed departure of some flights over security concerns.
98
+ Israeli officials soon threatened to close the airport and delayed departure of some flights over security concerns.
99
+ Since Wye, Israel and Palestine have accused one another of reneging on agreements
100
+ Jubilation erupted among Palestinian airport officials and passengers as the first Palestinian flight
101
+ The U.N. imposed international air travel sanctions on Libya to force their extradition.
102
+ Two Libyans bombing a New York bound Pan Am jet over Lockerbie
103
+ a Pan Am jet killing 270.
104
+ In August 1998 United States and Britain proposed a Netherlands trial.
105
+ Since 1992 Libya has been under U.N. sanctions in effect until the suspects are turned over to United States or Britain.
106
+ The two suspects would be tried in the Netherlands by Scottish judges under Scottish law.
107
+ Gadhafi including a promise that the suspects would serve their sentences in the Netherlands or Libya if
108
+ the Netherlands or Libya convicted.
109
+ The two suspects would be tried in the Netherlands by Scottish judges under Scottish law.
110
+ international air to force their extradition.
111
+ Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdish Workers Party fought for autonomy in Turkey since 1984
112
+ a terrorist organization.. Ocalan was rumored to be in Russia.
113
+ a terrorist organization.. Ocalan was rumored to be in Russia.
114
+ he got off of a flight from Moscow.
115
+ Nearly 37,000 people have died in the conflict.
116
+ anyone facing the death penalty as Ocalan clearly would in Turkey
117
+ Abdullah Ocalan's Kurdish Workers Party causing 37,000 deaths.
118
+ a terrorist organization.. Ocalan was rumored to be in Russia.
119
+ Germany has issued an arrest warrant.
120
+ He fled to Russia
121
+ The IMF and the to stabilize Brazil's economy as Latin American economic officials decry paltry IMF programs to their countries.
122
+ Brazilian officials negotiated for an IMF bailout of at least $30 billion.
123
+ Many issues and conflicting strategies for stabilizing the global economy surfaced at the October IMF and World Bank meeting.
124
+ a failing economy carrying both a large trade and a budget deficit.
125
+ the Brazilian government led by recently reelected President Cardoso
126
+ on reforms would cut government expenses over the long term.
127
+ Clinton fearing Brazil's troubles
128
+ Clinton lobbied Congress for $18 billion
129
+ Losing $30 billion after Russia's collapse triggered a currency and stock market collapse in Brazil
130
+ The IMF and the US Treasury Department are preparing a loan package of $30 billion or more to stabilize Brazil's economy
131
+ New York where Democratic challenger Schumer has battled to a statistical tie with incumbent Republican Senator D'Amato.
132
+ both skewed their political ideology toward the center
133
+ The Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment inquiry in the house Democratic house candidates struggled with the question
134
+ Several Democratic incumbents in the Senate, among them Barbara Boxer and Carol Mosely-Braun, and at least one Senate Republican are in tight races.
135
+ Noted battles for Senator include D'Amato vs. Schumer in New York,
136
+ , some will view it as a mandate
137
+ A strong bid by the Democratic challenger to the Republican incumbent in New York did not seem enough to avoid strong Republican gains.
138
+ As Election Day nears the House Judiciary Committee is considering impeaching President Clinton for alleged perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the Lewinsky affair.
139
+ each accusing the other of extremism.
140
+ Political hybrids resist easy characterization as exemplified in D'Amato vs. Schumer.
141
+ Belgrade has refused to allow the tribunal to probe alleged atrocities in Kosovo.
142
+ four guards accused of atrocities against Serbs at a Bosnian prison
143
+ the tribunal to probe alleged atrocities in Kosovo.
144
+ Violence continues in Yugoslavia as the International Court in the Hague pushes
145
+ Kosovo killed 13 ethnic Albanians.
146
+ The Yugoslavian government was refusing investigators visas.
147
+ The U.N. tribunal investigate atrocities reported by both sides.
148
+ a massacre described by a survivor
149
+ The U.N. tribunal investigate atrocities reported by both sides.
150
+ Kosovo is off limits
151
+ Some two months after the kidnapping Chechen officials reported finding the severed heads of the four kidnapped men near a small village west of Grozny.
152
+ At 4am October 3, gunmen abducted Britons Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, Rudolf Petschi, and New Zealander Stanley Shaw
153
+ No ransom demand was received.
154
+ At 4am October 3, gunmen abducted Britons Peter Kennedy, Darren Hickey, Rudolf Petschi, and New Zealander Stanley Shaw
155
+ Some two months after the kidnapping Chechen officials reported finding the severed heads of the four kidnapped men near a small village west of Grozny.
156
+ Kidnapping ransom, has become a growth industry for Chechen rebels with 176
157
+ Three British and one New Zealand telecom workers were kidnapped after a shootout between their bodyguards and the attackers.
158
+ Two months after abduction the hostages' bodies and severed heads were found.
159
+ ransom and 90 of the victims have been released.
160
+ More than 100 people are being held captive in Chechnya
161
+ A South African panel probing the apartheid-era abuses is releasing its final report following a 2-year investigation.
162
+ the panel has also accused the African National Congress (ANC) of human rights violations.
163
+ the panel has also accused the African National Congress (ANC) of human rights violations.
164
+ The last apartheid president will not be implicated in the rights violations after threatening a court challenge.
165
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission completed a lengthy study of human rights violations, including torture and murder, in that country, 1960-1994.
166
+ The "truth" part of the report was the easiest
167
+ those came forward
168
+ de Klerk to threaten a court challenge The final 3,500-page report
169
+ The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission completed a lengthy study of human rights violations, including torture and murder, in that country, 1960-1994.
170
+ Information implicating former president de Klerk
171
+ Arrested in 1946 as a Nazi sympathizer
172
+ many Serbs and Jews accuse him of sympathizing with the Nazis.
173
+ Pope John Paul II during a visit to Croatia beatified the WW II cardinal of Zagreb for his staunch opposition
174
+ Revered by Croats as an anti-communist martyr
175
+ the pro-Nazi dictatorship killed thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies.
176
+ Arrested in 1946 as a Nazi sympathizer
177
+ At a mass in Split John Paul called for reconciliation throughout the former Yugoslavia
178
+ Stepinac eventually denounced the atrocities
179
+ Cardinal Stepinac died in 1960.
180
+ On Pope John Paul II's three-day visit to Croatia he beatified controversial cardinal Alojzije Stepinac
181
+ The last government fell on November 25 following a no confidence vote and rumors that Prime Minister Yilmza had mafia ties.
182
+ The last government fell on November 25 following a no confidence vote and rumors that Prime Minister Yilmza had mafia ties.
183
+ Turkish President Demirel to ask former Deputy Premier Ecevit to create a new government with a secular coalition of his Democratic Left party and two center-right parties.
184
+ A political vacuum endangered a Kurdish rebel's extradition.
185
+ In late 1998 the centrist government of Turkey collapsed in a corruption scandal.
186
+ He turned instead to Turkey's strong military and pro-western secular leadership.
187
+ A political vacuum endangered a Kurdish rebel's extradition.
188
+ Traditionally the Islamic Virtue Party would establish the new government since it holds the most seats in Parliament
189
+ Bulent Ecevit asked Yilmaz and True Path Party head Tansu to join him in a secular coalition
190
+ Kutan demurred from even being part of the new government.
191
+ Most deaths were blamed on homelessness and drinking alcohol.
192
+ Beginning November 16 a frigid Arctic air mass brought unusually cold weather lasting several weeks to most of Europe.
193
+ Many deaths were attributed to the cold with Poland
194
+ An arctic cold wave bringing sub-zero temperatures and killing scores of people.
195
+ An arctic cold wave bringing sub-zero temperatures and killing scores of people.
196
+ In Poland three weeks of sub-zero temperatures killed at least 85 people in November
197
+ An arctic cold wave bringing sub-zero temperatures and killing scores of people.
198
+ Most deaths drinking alcohol.
199
+ Most deaths were blamed on homelessness and drinking alcohol.
200
+ the cold temperatures dipped as low as minus 26 degrees Celsius.
201
+ Typhoon Babs slammed into the Philippines in mid-October forcing hundreds of thousands to abandon homes
202
+ It brought torrential rains, flooding, and landslides to Taiwan and strong winds
203
+ After Babs President Estrada declared four provinces and a city
204
+ Landslides and drownings killed at least 156.
205
+ Landslides and drownings killed at least 156.
206
+ Supertyphoon Babs brought heavy winds and rain to the Philippines
207
+ first hitting Catanduanes Island Thursday
208
+ Cooking oil prices rose sharply in the Philippines on speculation that copra production will decline due to the effects of el Nino and recent typhoons on coconut crops.
209
+ It brought torrential rains, flooding, and landslides to Taiwan and strong winds
210
+ first hitting Catanduanes Island Thursday
211
+ The sniper shot Slepian as he talked with his wife and one of his sons.
212
+ The sniper fired through a kitchen window
213
+ New York obstetrician provided abortions at a Buffalo clinic
214
+ The sniper shot Slepian as he talked with his wife and one of his sons.
215
+ Dr. Barnett Slepian clinic, was killed by a sniper's bullet as he stood in the kitchen of his home.
216
+ Abortion rights advocates blamed opponents, including some politicians
217
+ Since 1993 three doctors, three clinic employees and a clinic escort have been murdered
218
+ Snipers had attacked five abortion providers in New York and Canada over the past four years.
219
+ Dr. Barnett Slepian clinic, was killed by a sniper's bullet as he stood in the kitchen of his home.
220
+ His slaying is the most deadly example of what law-enforcement officials describe as an annual pattern of anti-abortion violence in Canada and western New York.
221
+ Cause of the fire has not been established
222
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
223
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
224
+ Over 400 persons crowded the building approved for only 150.
225
+ scores injured in Sweden's deadliest fire in modern times.
226
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
227
+ Most at the Halloween hip-hop party were immigrants, or children of immigrants, from war ravaged or impoverished countries.
228
+ Four hundred people had been crowded into a hall
229
+ A fire in a Swedish dance hall caused the death of 62 teenage Halloween revelers and injured over 160
230
+ Rescuers to arrive after having trouble understanding the accented call for help
231
+ The 86-member cleric-based Assembly is important because it names and supervises the country's supreme leader.
232
+ Iran's conservatives won a decisive victory in elections for the 86-member clergy-based Assembly of Experts
233
+ the Council of Guardians dominated by political hard-liners
234
+ the popular moderate reformist President Mohammed Khatami criticized the selection process.
235
+ The hard-liners won at least 54 places on the 86-seat Assembly and the moderates only 13.
236
+ the Council of Guardians disqualifying many supporters of the popular moderate reformist President Mohammed Khatami
237
+ the conservative-dominated 12-member Council of Guardians rejected all except 30 of the moderate candidates.
238
+ Iran's official media boasted about a huge voter turnout
239
+ Iran's conservatives won a decisive victory in elections for the 86-member clergy-based Assembly of Experts
240
+ Hard-liners won at least 54 of the 86-seats and the moderates only 13.
241
+ For eleven days in September Hurricane Georges 110-135 mph winds killing at least 500 people and inflicting more than $5 billion in property damage before expiring over Georgia.
242
+ U.S. taxpayers are sure to foot most of the bill in Puerto Rico
243
+ Puerto Rico 30,000 homes were destroyed and another 60,000 damaged.
244
+ Hurricane Georges packing winds swept through the northern Caribbean killing over 400 people
245
+ In Puerto Rico alone nearly 30,000 houses were destroyed.
246
+ Hard hit Antigua, Cuba
247
+ more than 138,000 left homeless and property damage
248
+ Hurricane Georges, with winds plowed over and past 17 Caribbean islands for 11 days in September 1998
249
+ Hurricane Georges causing billions in property damage.
250
+ more than 138,000 left homeless and property damage
251
+ At fiscal year's end on Sept. 30, 1998 Congress voted emergency funding to keep the government
252
+ Republicans vowing to avoid another shutdown that would distract attention from impeachment, became willing to resolve spending issues
253
+ As talks the threat of another government shutdown began to loom.
254
+ Some bills risked veto because of anti-environmental riders.
255
+ The situation was complicated by Republicans
256
+ When Congress failed to adopt a budget by the end of the fiscal year it voted a continuing spending resolution to keep the government operating.
257
+ Temporary extensions of current spending levels to keep the government running.
258
+ As the end of the fiscal year draws near, congress has completed work on only four of the thirteen spending bills.
259
+ Final unresolved issues included funding for the IMF and emergencies, and census technique.
260
+ emergency funding to keep the government running through Oct. 9th
261
+ When Netscape refused Microsoft attempted to thwart competition by bundling its browser with the highly popular Windows operating system.
262
+ Microsoft to acquire 3Com's Palm Pilot
263
+ Microsoft lawyers later produced an e-mail from Netscape President James Barkdale
264
+ The government charged that Microsoft sought Netscape Corporation's collusion in restricting competition in the Internet software market.
265
+ Invoking the Sherman Act the Justice Department and 20 states have begun anti-trust proceedings against Microsoft Corporation.
266
+ Netscape join Microsoft in dividing the internet software market.
267
+ The government charged that Microsoft sought Netscape Corporation's collusion in restricting competition in the Internet software market.
268
+ The Justice department brought civil suit against Microsoft
269
+ Netscape join Microsoft in dividing the internet software market.
270
+ Microsoft to acquire 3Com's Palm Pilot
271
+ Two vehicles were used in each attack.
272
+ A key figure in the Nairobi bombing Abdallah Mohammed Fazul was still at large.
273
+ A total of 248 people, including a dozen Americans were killed in the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on August 7
274
+ the suspected mastermind of the bombings.
275
+ Fazul accused of directing the Nairobi attack
276
+ Terrorist bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August 7 1998 killed 248 in Nairobi
277
+ The Taliban has refused U.S. and Saudi Arabian requests to deport bin Laden from Afghanistan.
278
+ A total of 248 people, including a dozen Americans were killed in the terrorist bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on August 7
279
+ the terror suspects associated with terrorist groups under his control.
280
+ the terror suspects associated with terrorist groups under his control.
281
+ PAL's financial troubles were exacerbated by a two-week shutdown in September due to a dispute with its largest union.
282
+ Negotiations with Cathay Pacific Airways to infuse $100 million dollars into the company
283
+ Negotiations with Cathay Pacific Airways to infuse $100 million dollars into the company
284
+ PAL resumed domestic flights on October 7 and international flights on October 26.
285
+ Philippines Airlines devastated in 1998 by pilot and ground worker strikes and with a rising $2.1 billion debt
286
+ it was faced by a pilot's strike in June and the region's currency problems
287
+ President Estrada brokered an agreement to suspend collective bargaining for 10 years in exchange for 20% of PAL stock and union seats on its board.
288
+ Negotiations with Cathay Pacific Airways to infuse $100 million dollars into the company collapsed when PAL Chairman Tan refused to agree to major job cuts and to relinquish management control to Cathay.
289
+ Negotiations with Cathay Pacific Airways to infuse $100 million dollars into the company collapsed when PAL Chairman Tan refused to agree to major job cuts and to relinquish management control to Cathay.
290
+ Negotiations with Cathay Pacific Airways to infuse $100 million dollars into the company collapsed when PAL Chairman Tan refused to agree to major job cuts and to relinquish management control to Cathay.
291
+ Qin and Wang were charged with inciting subversion
292
+ Three prominent dissidents working to establish the new party
293
+ They claimed that Xu Wenli, was suspected of "activities damaging to national security
294
+ The US has denounced China's detaining those "peacefully exercising fundamental freedoms
295
+ China defending its action
296
+ Qin and Wang were charged with inciting subversion
297
+ Those arrested to be tried under China's vague State Security Law.
298
+ Three prominent dissidents working to establish the new party
299
+ Communist officials arrested three of its most prominent leaders, Xu Wenli, Qin Yongmin and Wang Youcai.
300
+ the more serious of subverting state power which can bring a life sentence.
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/val.json ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ {"text": "<s> LITTLETON, <h>Colo. (AP </h> ) -- The sheriff's initial estimate of <h>as many as 25 dead in the Columbine High massacre was off the mark </h> apparently because the six SWAT teams that swept the building counted some victims more than once. </s> <s> Singers Amy Grant and Michael Smith joined a large bagpipe band in providing music for the crowd, joining <h>two Columbine students </h> who <h>wrote a song in honor of their fallen classmates. </h> </s>", "summary": "Two students wounded dozens before killing themselves."}
2
+ {"text": "<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- <h>Students returned to classes Thursday at Chatfield High School </h> , but the bloodbath at rival Columbine High haunted the halls. </s> <s> Calling the return to the classroom ``a very important next step in the process of healing,'' Monseu said the first thing Columbine students will do when <h>they arrive at Chatfield High School is attend an assembly to reunite them with their teachers. </h> </s>", "summary": "students were to finish the school year at nearby Chatfield High."}
3
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Tuesday morning 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were murdered when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, also Columbine students, opened fire with at least four guns and dozens of bombs. </h> </s> <s> Tuesday morning 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were murdered when <h>Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, </h> also Columbine students, <h>opened fire </h> with <h>at least four guns and dozens of bombs. </h> </s>", "summary": "In Littleton Colorado on Tuesday morning Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their school with guns and pipe bombs."}
4
+ {"text": "<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The day that <h>Columbine High School students are to return to class </h> has been delayed because so many have been attending funerals for students killed in the April 20 massacre, an administrator said Tuesday. </s>", "summary": "Classes were scheduled to resume at a neighboring school"}
5
+ {"text": "<s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The day that Columbine High School students are to return to class has been delayed because so many have been attending funerals for <h>students killed in the April 20 massacre </h> , an administrator said Tuesday. </s>", "summary": "Two students killed 12 students and one teacher"}
6
+ {"text": "<s> <h>COLO-SCHOOL-SHOOTING (Littleton, Colo.) _ The governor of Colorado </h> tours Columbine High School and <h>says investigators are all but certain that the two gunmen had help from others </h> ; the police say security cameras may provide crucial evidence of a conspiracy. </s>", "summary": "Investigators believed the gunmen had help from others."}
7
+ {"text": "<s> ``The problem began long before <h>they walked into school. </h> '' </s>", "summary": "In Littleton Colorado on Tuesday morning Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their school with guns and pipe bombs."}
8
+ {"text": "<s> Sheriff John Stone said Tuesday afternoon <h>that there could be as many as 25 dead. </h> </s>", "summary": "dead and dozens injured."}
9
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Columbine on Saturday </h> morning <h>to pray. </h> </s>", "summary": "In the worst school killing in U.S. history two students at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado entered their school on Tuesday"}
10
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Fifteen people, including the two killers </h> , <h>died Tuesday in a shooting and bombing spree at Columbine High School. </h> </s>", "summary": "Twelve students, one teacher, and the two perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were killed."}
11
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The four officers, who are scheduled to be arraigned on criminal charges in state Supreme Court in the Bronx on Wednesday </h> , <h>did not testify about the shooting before the grand jury </h> that heard their case. </s> <s> <h>NEW YORK ( </h> AP) <h>-- Four white police officers were charged with murder Wednesday for killing an unarmed African immigrant in a hail of 41 bullets </h> -- a shooting that has led to months of protests and a painful examination of police tactics and race relations. </s> <s> NEW YORK _ With <h>the indictments barely unsealed against four police officers in the Amadou Diallo shooting </h> , a battle is already taking shape over physical evidence in the case, as lawyers and experts seek to buttress their own versions of what happened based on entrance wounds, bullet trajectories and other forensic details. </s> <s> NEW YORK _ Now that <h>the four police officers charged with killing Amadou Diallo have been arraigned </h> , the next step in the legal process will come at the end of the month, when their lawyers and Bronx prosecutors are to appear before a judge to set a schedule for the pretrial proceedings. </s> <s> <h>NEW YORK </h> (AP) -- <h>A judge ordered four police officers Wednesday to stand trial for the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant. </h> </s>", "summary": "Four New York City police officers are charged with second degree murder of 22-year-old immigrant street vendor from Guinea"}
12
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The four officers fired 41 shots </h> , hitting Diallo 19 times. </s> <s> <h>Diallo </h> , an unarmed man with no criminal <h>history, was killed on Feb. 4 when the four officers fired 41 shots at him </h> , 19 of which hit him. </s> <s> The three-count indictment _ two for second-degree murder, one for reckless endangerment _ applied to all four of <h>the white officers </h> who <h>fired 41 bullets at African immigrant Amadou Diallo in the wee hours of Feb. 4 </h> , as he stood, unarmed, in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. </s> <s> <h>They </h> are accused <h>of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo </h> while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. </s> <s> <h>They are accused of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. </h> </s>", "summary": "On 4 February 1999 four white NYPD officers, McMellon, Carroll, Boss, and Murphy fired 41 shots at suspected African immigrant criminal Amadou Diallo."}
13
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy </h> -- who were searching for a rape suspect and <h>fired apparently </h> believing Diallo had a gun -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. </s> <s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy </h> -- who were searching for a rape suspect and fired apparently <h>believing Diallo had a gun </h> -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. </s> <s> Police officials declined to say where <h>the officers _ Kenneth Boss, Richard Murphy, Carroll and McMellon _ would be working </h> , adding only that they were on modified duty and carrying no guns or badges. </s> <s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy left the courthouse </h> without comment. </s>", "summary": "The four officers, Kenneth Boss, Jean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded not guilty maintaining that they thought Diallo was armed."}
14
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded innocent in a Bronx courtroom to second-degree murder. </h> </s> <s> <h>The officers _ Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, and Richard Murphy _ pleaded not guilty to the charges. </h> </s> <s> Black bystanders fell in behind the couple Wednesday as they marched two blocks to <h>a courthouse </h> where <h>four white police officers pleaded innocent to murder charges in the shooting death of the Diallos' son </h> , a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea with no criminal record. </s> <s> <h>They have all pleaded innocent to second-degree murder. </h> </s>", "summary": "The four officers, Kenneth Boss, Jean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded not guilty maintaining that they thought Diallo was armed."}
15
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Diallo </h> , a 22-year-old immigrant who worked as a street peddler in Manhattan and attended computer <h>classes, was shot in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building Feb. 4. </h> </s> <s> <h>Amadou Diallo </h> , a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea with no criminal record, <h>was shot 19 times Feb. 4 in his vestibule </h> by members of an elite street-crime unit looking for a rape suspect. </s> <s> Both sides hope to use forensic evidence to answer vexing questions that have loomed since Feb. 4, when Diallo was killed in fusillade of <h>41 bullets fired into the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. </h> </s>", "summary": "unarmed African immigrant struck by 19 of 41 rounds in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building."}
16
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The four officers </h> fired 41 shots, <h>hitting Diallo 19 times. </h> </s> <s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless <h>when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him </h> , struck him and killed him. </s> <s> <h>Diallo was hit 19 times. </h> </s>", "summary": "unarmed African immigrant struck by 19 of 41 rounds in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building."}
17
+ {"text": "<s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and <h>killed him. </h> </s> <s> ``On Feb. 4, in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou </h> Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and <h>killed him </h> ,'' prosecutor Robert Johnson told the court. </s>", "summary": "the officers intended to take Diallo's life."}
18
+ {"text": "<s> Diallo, an unarmed man with no criminal history, was killed on Feb. 4 when the four officers fired 41 shots at him, 19 of <h>which hit him. </h> </s> <s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, <h>struck him </h> and killed him. </s>", "summary": "they fired 41 shots of which 19 hit the unarmed victim."}
19
+ {"text": "<s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless </h> when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and killed him. </s> <s> ``On Feb. 4, in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou </h> Diallo stood blameless, <h>unarmed and defenseless </h> when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, <h>struck him </h> and killed him,'' prosecutor Robert Johnson told the court. </s>", "summary": "unarmed African immigrant struck by 19 of 41 rounds in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building."}
20
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Each was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of reckless endangerment. </h> </s> <s> ``I am not afraid of the forensic evidence,'' said Stephen Worth, the attorney for Officer Edward McMellon, one of <h>the four accused of second-degree murder. </h> </s>", "summary": "Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy were each charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of reckless endangerment."}
21
+ {"text": "<s> About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because <h>large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed </h> and died. </s> <s> <h>Flowering arrow bamboo is threatening a colony of endangered giant pandas in China </h> but experts have come up with a plan to save them, state media said Monday. </s> <s> <h>Arrow bamboo in two areas of the reserve </h> which they inhabit <h>is flowering, </h> which means the plant will seed and die at the end of its life span. </s>", "summary": "China is creating and expanding wildlife reserves and protection zones, planting forest areas with arrow bamboo, increasing financial support"}
22
+ {"text": "<s> The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with <h>an estimated 1,000 living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </h> </s> <s> Last week Xinhua reported that some 7,420 hectares of bamboo, the panda's favourite food, bloomed and died in December <h>in neighboring Gansu province </h> , <h>200 </h> kilometers (120 miles) west of the Qinling mountains. </s> <s> The giant panda is one of the world's most rare and endangered species, with <h>an estimated some 1,000 living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan in southwest China, and northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </h> </s>", "summary": "Some 1600 live in the wild with less than 200 in captivity."}
23
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with an estimated 1,000 </h> living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </s> <s> \"<h>Now China has about 1,700 giant pandas and 76 percent of them </h> live in Sichuan,\" said Yang, adding that the provincial government has obtained a financial support of more than 24 million yuan (2. </s> <s> <h>The giant panda is one of the world's most rare and endangered species, with an estimated some 1,000 </h> living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan in southwest China, and northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </s>", "summary": "The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species with about 1500 living in the wild in China."}
24
+ {"text": "<s> <h>About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed and died. </h> </s> <s> Zhang said that <h>at the end of a life of arrow bamboo </h> , a favorite of giant pandas, <h>the plant will flower, seed and die. </h> </s>", "summary": "The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years."}
25
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Currently, they are threatened by a severe food shortage in the wake of the withering bamboo. </h> </s> <s> Nature preserve workers in northwest China's Gansu Province have formulated a rescue plan to save giant pandas from <h>food shortage caused by arrow bamboo flowering. </h> </s>", "summary": "Under state protection since 1962 they continue to be threatened by construction, mining, logging, poaching, and recent food shortages."}
26
+ {"text": "<s> <h>By the end of 2004 </h> , <h>arrow bamboo </h> , the favorite food of <h>giants, had blossomed on 7,420 hectares at the Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve </h> in southern Gansu Province, a major habitat of pandas in China, according to a recent survey conducted by the nature reserve administration. </s> <s> Last week Xinhua reported that <h>some 7,420 hectares of bamboo </h> , the panda's favourite food, <h>bloomed </h> and died in December in neighboring Gansu province, 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of the Qinling mountains. </s>", "summary": "China is creating and expanding wildlife reserves and protection zones, planting forest areas with arrow bamboo, increasing financial support"}
27
+ {"text": "<s> The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and <h>it takes 10 years for a new supply </h> to grow. </s> <s> Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and <h>it takes 10 years for a new supply </h> to grow. </s>", "summary": "The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years."}
28
+ {"text": "<s> The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and it takes 10 years for <h>a new supply to grow. </h> </s> <s> Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and it takes 10 years for <h>a new supply to grow. </h> </s>", "summary": "The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years."}
29
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms </h> and it takes 10 years for a new supply to grow. </s> <s> <h>Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms </h> and it takes 10 years for a new supply to grow. </s>", "summary": "The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years."}
30
+ {"text": "<s> <h>China has 163 giant pandas in captivity. </h> </s> <s> About 1,590 giant pandas are still at large in the wild, mostly in the high mountains around Sichuan Basin, and <h>160 live in captivity. </h> </s>", "summary": "Some 1600 live in the wild with less than 200 in captivity."}
31
+ {"text": "<s> CANBERRA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defense Force, the police and health services are on standby to help the victims of <h>a tsunami </h> that <h>wiped out several villages </h> , killing scores of people, on PNG's remote north-west coast Friday night. </s> <s> <h>The massive tidal wave wiped seven villages </h> off the map, leaving hundreds people dead or missing. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves </h> set off by an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>killing at least 70 people and crushing villages </h> , the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New </h> Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>crushing villages and </h> leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New </h> Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>crushing villages </h> and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said the tsunami, that hit the coast west of Aitape on <h>Friday night had wiped out three villages </h> and had almost completely destroyed another, according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>", "summary": "totally destroying three villages and almost"}
32
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of water </h> , called tsunami, <h>hit Friday night without warning just after an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) </h> off the coast. </s> <s> <h>The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of water </h> , called tsunami, hit Friday night without <h>warning just after an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast. </h> </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>Huge sea waves set off by an earthquake </h> crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake </h> crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake </h> crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>The disaster occurred 30 minutes after an undersea earthquake of about 7.0 on the Richter scale </h> took place. </s>", "summary": "The tidal wave was caused by an undersea earthquake measuring about 7.0 on the Richter scale some 12 miles off the coast."}
33
+ {"text": "<s> The death toll so far from <h>the tsunami </h> that <h>struck the coastline near the town of Aitape in the West Sepik </h> (Sandaun) province Friday night, was officially announced 64 and many more people were missing. </s> <s> Disaster authorities said <h>the seismic sea wave struck to the west of the town of Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , hitting at least four villages _ Sissano, Warapu, Arop and Malol. </s> <s> <h>Disaster authorities said the wave struck to the west of the town of Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , hitting at least four villages. </s> <s> <h>Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, <h>said the tsunami that hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another. </h> </s> <s> <h>Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, <h>said the tsunami that hit the coast west of the village on Friday night had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another. </h> </s> <s> Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said <h>the tsunami </h> , that <h>hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night </h> had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another, according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>", "summary": "On a Friday night in mid-July 1998 a 23-foot tsunami engulfed a heavily populated area near Aitape on Papua New Guinea's remote northwest coast."}
34
+ {"text": "<s> <h>And Warapu village had also been completely destroyed </h> , with 11 confirmed deaths and many missing. </s> <s> <h>The Warapu village had also been completely destroyed </h> , with 11 confirmed deaths and many missing, Igara said. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> , and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s>", "summary": "Seven villages were completely destroyed including Nimas, Warapu, and Arop."}
35
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The massive tidal wave </h> wiped seven villages off the map, <h>leaving hundreds people dead or missing. </h> </s> <s> ``We expect that about 3,000 people have been made homeless and <h>there has been an estimate of about 300 people dead or missing </h> ,'' Fr. </s> <s> ``We expect that about 3,000 people have been made homeless and <h>there has been an estimate of about 300 people dead or missing </h> ,'' Fr. </s> <s> <h>The tidal wave </h> smashed into the northwestern coastline near the town of Aitape in West Sepik province, <h>killing at least 600 people </h> , according to reports reaching here. </s>", "summary": "Among the area's approximate population of ten thousand 599 are dead and 6000 homeless from beach abodes"}
36
+ {"text": "<s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves set off by <h>an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by <h>a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by <h>a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s>", "summary": "The tidal wave was caused by an undersea earthquake measuring about 7.0 on the Richter scale some 12 miles off the coast."}
37
+ {"text": "<s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h> following an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s> <s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h> following an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s> <s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h> following an earthquake about 18 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s>", "summary": "During the night of July 17 a 23-foot tsunami hit the north coast of Papua New Guinea"}
38
+ {"text": "<s> <h>CANBERRA </h> , July 19 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Papua New Guinea's (<h>PNG) tsunami disaster has climbed to 599 </h> and is expected to rise, a PNG disaster control officer said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>At Warapu 500 people had been confirmed dead. </h> </s> <s> \"<h>The latest death toll for the district is 599 </h> ,\" Dickson Dalle, chairman of district disaster coordinating, was quoted as telling reporters. </s>", "summary": "The death toll was 599"}
39
+ {"text": "<s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out and <h>the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </h> </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out, and <h>the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </h> </s> <s> Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said the tsunami, that hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night had wiped out three villages and <h>had almost completely destroyed another </h> , according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>", "summary": "three almost completely destroying another."}
40
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Among the dead are scores of schoolchildren. </h> </s> <s> Dalle said <h>most of the victims of the disaster were old people and schoolchildren. </h> </s> <s> Dalle said <h>most of the victims of the disaster were old people and schoolchildren. </h> </s>", "summary": "The death toll, mostly children and old people is expected to rise to more than 1000"}
41
+ {"text": "<s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered <h>a gene </h> which, when mutated, <h>causes Parkinson's disease in some families. </h> </s>", "summary": "The National Institute on Aging is studying a gene which when mutated causes Parkinson's."}
42
+ {"text": "<s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered <h>a gene </h> which, <h>when mutated </h> , causes Parkinson's disease in some families. </s>", "summary": "The National Institute on Aging is studying a gene which when mutated causes Parkinson's."}
43
+ {"text": "<s> Although <h>Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited </h> , <h>the </h> discovery of this gene and further study of how it works could open up new avenues of research for preventing or delaying the onset of the disease. </s>", "summary": "Parkinson's, usually not inherited, is associated with Lewy bodies in the brain, the protein alpha-synuclein, mutations of chromosome 12 genes, and dopamine loss."}
44
+ {"text": "<s> The loss of <h>cells </h> that <h>produce the neurotransmitter dopamine </h> causes the telltale tremors, rigid and slow movements of Parkinson's. </s>", "summary": "cells produce the neuro-transmitter dopamine"}
45
+ {"text": "<s> Although Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited, the discovery of this gene and further study of how <h>it works could open up new avenues of research for preventing or delaying the onset of the disease. </h> </s>", "summary": "University of Pittsburgh researchers are studying exercise as a Parkinson's preventer, findings in rats"}
46
+ {"text": "<s> Like <h>many degenerative brain diseases </h> , <h>including Parkinson's and Alzheimer </h> 's, proteins targeted in the disease process begin misfolding and clumping in or around brain cells, which are called neurons. </s>", "summary": "Parkinson's is a degenerative brain disease."}
47
+ {"text": "<s> <h>What is Lewy body disease? </h> </s>", "summary": "Parkinson's, usually not inherited, is associated with Lewy bodies in the brain, the protein alpha-synuclein, mutations of chromosome 12 genes, and dopamine loss."}
48
+ {"text": "<s> Supporters of the measure say the decision could help find cures to diseases including cancer, AIDS, spinal cord injuries, <h>Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease </h> more quickly than <h>had been expected. </h> </s>", "summary": "a degenerative brain disease characterized by tremors, stiffness and difficulty walking."}
49
+ {"text": "<s> First, the group identified a small region of the \"chromosome 12\" shared by all of the Basque families and then systematically assessed each gene in this region <h>for mutations </h> that <h>might cause </h> disease. </s>", "summary": "isolated a gene whose mutations have been linked to the disease."}
50
+ {"text": "<s> <h>It is a form of dementia </h> that the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke calls dementia with Lewy bodies. </s>", "summary": "a degenerative brain disease characterized by tremors, stiffness and difficulty walking."}
51
+ {"text": "<s> Long-term studies are not yet available <h>on Bextra, </h> which <h>was approved in 2001. </h> </s> <s> Pfizer said it is already conducting research into whether Bextra increases the risk of heart attacks in <h>people taking the drug for chronic pain. </h> </s>", "summary": "an arthritis drug used by 2 million people"}
52
+ {"text": "<s> Merck &amp; Co. said its surprise decision <h>Thursday to withdraw the arthritis drug Vioxx -- used by about 2 million people worldwide </h> -- was driven by recent evidence that the drug's adverse side effects outweighed any potential benefits. </s>", "summary": "On Sept 30 Merck voluntarily recalled the pain killer Vioxx, used by almost 2 million"}
53
+ {"text": "<s> The Food and Drug Administration silenced one of its drug experts who raised safety concerns weeks before Merck &amp; <h>Co. </h> yanked <h>the blockbuster drug Vioxx </h> due <h>to increased risks for heart attack and strokes </h> , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday. </s>", "summary": "determination that use past 18 months increased the risk of heart attack or strokes"}
54
+ {"text": "<s> Pfizer Inc. warned doctors on Friday that <h>one of its bestselling painkillers </h> , <h>Bextra </h> , <h>might increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke in coronary artery bypass </h> surgery patients. </s>", "summary": "recent scientific study results indicate that long-term use significantly increases patients' risk of heart attack and stroke over those taking older NSAID drugs."}
55
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Seven weeks </h> before Merck &amp; <h>Co. pulled the arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because of safety concerns </h> , federal drug regulators downplayed the significance of scientific findings citing the increased risks, documents released Thursday show. </s>", "summary": "On September 30 Merck & Co. voluntarily withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx because recent scientific study results indicate that long"}
56
+ {"text": "<s> Momentum was growing for a fresh look at the safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers as key researchers, a congressman and European regulators said they feared such drugs might raise the risk of heart problems like <h>those blamed on the arthritis medicine Vioxx. </h> </s>", "summary": "Critics complained that TV advertising caused arthritics to desire the drug"}
57
+ {"text": "<s> The announcement comes just two weeks after Merck pulled <h>its painkiller </h> , Vioxx, which <h>is in the same class of drugs as Bextra </h> , from the market because a study showed that the risk of heart attacks doubled for patients who had taken Vioxx for 18 months or longer. </s>", "summary": "Concerns arose over Pfizer's Celebrex and Bextra, also Cox-2 inhibitors."}
58
+ {"text": "<s> Vioxx was approved after trials held under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration showed it to be effective (which <h>it was </h> ). </s>", "summary": "Vioxx was safer for digestive tracts, important for arthritis patients."}
59
+ {"text": "<s> Vioxx was approved after trials held under the auspices of the Food and <h>Drug Administration showed it to be effective </h> (which it was). </s>", "summary": "OTC drugs worked equally well."}
60
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The announcement comes just two weeks after Merck pulled its painkiller </h> , Vioxx, which is in the same class of drugs as Bextra, from the market because a study showed that the risk of heart attacks doubled for patients who had taken Vioxx for 18 months or longer. </s>", "summary": "On September 30 Merck & Co. voluntarily withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx because recent scientific study results indicate that long"}
61
+ {"text": "<s> MACAO, December 9 (Xinhua) -- Macao experts today warned residents to be careful but not panic <h>over the bird flu </h> that <h>has killed children in neighboring Hong Kong. </h> </s> <s> And of the six others confirmed of being infected of the H5N1 virus, two have recovered and been discharged from hospital and <h>four others are still under treatment with their condition satisfactory </h> , according to the DH update. </s>", "summary": "where there has been 10 confirmed cases with 4 deaths"}
62
+ {"text": "<s> The poultry imported from China's inland areas are from a different source from <h>those imported by Hong Kong </h> , they said. </s> <s> HONG KONG, December 16 (Xinhua) -- The bird flu <h>in Hong Kong, </h> which <h>has killed two people </h> , has not become an epidemic, a local senior health official said today. </s>", "summary": "The H5N1 strain of Influenza A flu has resurfaced this time in Hong"}
63
+ {"text": "<s> <h>All hospitals and clinics in Hong Kong have been ordered to test patients for the flu. </h> </s> <s> HONG KONG, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) set up an inter-department working <h>group </h> today <h>to coordinate efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread of a mysterious \"bird flu </h> \" that has killed two people. </s>", "summary": "The Hong Kong government is coordinating interdepartmental efforts to prevent and control the spread of this \"bird flu"}
64
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Investigators </h> fanned out across the territory Monday, <h>checking poultry farms for traces of the disease amid the speculation that it could have been passed to humans by chickens. </h> </s> <s> <h>Chickens have been identified as the most likely source of a new strain of the flu. </h> </s>", "summary": "influenza suspected to be transferred from birds to humans."}
65
+ {"text": "<s> <h>A three-year-old boy and a man died earlier this year after catching the \"bird flu </h> \", or H5N1 strain of influenza, and a 13-year-old girl is in hospital with the disease. </s> <s> It is still unclear in which <h>way human being catches the virus. </h> </s>", "summary": "influenza suspected to be transferred from birds to humans."}
66
+ {"text": "<s> <h>There has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus </h> , and no infected chickens have been found at the market, according to a source from the local health department. </s> <s> <h>Because strict preventive measures have been taken for a long period </h> , Zhao said, there has been no bird flu epidemic in recent years among Shenzhen's 168 chicken runs and 38 pigeon farms. </s>", "summary": "but no evidence of H5N1 was found in the primary source of Hong Kong's chicken"}
67
+ {"text": "<s> HONG KONG, December 25 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) on Thursday reported four more suspected cases of Influenza A H5N1, bringing the number to 10 in addition to <h>nine confirmed cases. </h> </s>", "summary": "A mysterious, deadly influenza strain H5N1, has appeared in Hong Kong with nine confirmed and ten suspected cases."}
68
+ {"text": "<s> HONG KONG, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) set up an inter-department working group today to coordinate efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread <h>of a mysterious \"bird flu\" </h> that <h>has killed two people. </h> </s>", "summary": "where there has been 10 confirmed cases with 4 deaths"}
69
+ {"text": "<s> HONG KONG, December 8 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong health authorities are stepping up the hunt for the source of a deadly influenza strain previously found only <h>in birds </h> which <h>has caused a global alert. </h> </s>", "summary": "a deadly influenza previously found only in birds"}
70
+ {"text": "<s> The Department of Health prepared a fact sheet to explain to <h>tourists the avian flu, </h> which <h>is caused by a virus H5N1 </h> that is only found in poultry. </s>", "summary": "The H5N1 strain of Influenza A commonly termed bird flu"}
71
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Almost 200 million oysters have been planted since 2001 </h> , officials said. </s> <s> <h>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation </h> will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, <h>signaling a more aggressive strategy for a group </h> that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay. </s>", "summary": "Fishermen, scientists, academics, and government are working together"}
72
+ {"text": "<s> In its petition filed in December, the bay foundation noted that <h>almost </h> none of those sewage plants had permits that limited nitrogen pollution and <h>asked the EPA to remedy that. </h> </s> <s> <h>This </h> would mean reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, found in suburban lawn fertilizer, <h>processed sewage and animal manure. </h> </s>", "summary": "the industries surrounding collapsed because the Bay has been over harvested and is heavily polluted from sewage, animal manure, and fertilizers from farms."}
73
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday </h> , signaling a more aggressive strategy for a group that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay. </s>", "summary": "suits being lodged against the EPA for dragging its heels."}
74
+ {"text": "<s> Halfway through <h>a 10-year program to save the Chesapeake Bay </h> , political leaders are acknowledging that the vaunted cleanup is faltering and are calling for major changes midstream. </s>", "summary": "Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania recognized that the Bay's environmental decline severely affected their economies and in 2000 agreed to actions to save the bay within 10 years"}
75
+ {"text": "<s> <h>In 2000 </h> , <h>the Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., and several states vowed that the Chesapeake Bay would be cleaned up within 10 years. </h> </s>", "summary": "Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania recognized that the Bay's environmental decline severely affected their economies and in 2000 agreed to actions to save the bay within 10 years"}
76
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay </h> , the states of Delaware and New Jersey said this week, joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. </s>", "summary": "Scientists are exploring the possibility of introducing disease-resistant nonnative Chinese oysters to the bay."}
77
+ {"text": "<s> Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay, <h>the states of Delaware and New Jersey </h> said this week, <h>joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. </h> </s>", "summary": "Fishermen, scientists, academics, and government are working together"}
78
+ {"text": "<s> The states issued a statement saying that <h>the Asian oyster </h> is still ``a virtual unknown'' and <h>could bring diseases or other ecological problems that would spread to their coasts. </h> </s>", "summary": "Life in the Chesapeake Bay is threatened by over-harvesting, pollution, parasites, and the introduction of non-native species."}
79
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The states issued a statement saying that the Asian oyster is still ``a virtual unknown'' and could bring diseases or other ecological problems </h> that would spread to their coasts. </s>", "summary": "Life in the Chesapeake Bay is threatened by over-harvesting, pollution, parasites, and the introduction of non-native species."}
80
+ {"text": "<s> The Chesapeake Executive Council, a group of state and <h>federal officials overseeing the bay cleanup </h> , voted to support a new central financing authority with the power to disperse billions to various Chesapeake-related projects. </s>", "summary": "Fishermen, scientists, academics, and government are working together"}
81
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The toy </h> was reportedly <h>among stuffed animals found in JonBenet's room </h> , but family members said it did not belong to the little girl. </s> <s> <h>The toy was reportedly among stuffed animals </h> found in JonBenet's room, but family members said it did not belong to the little girl. </s> <s> <h>The toy </h> was reportedly <h>among stuffed animals found in JonBenet's room. </h> </s> <s> <h>The toy was reportedly among stuffed animals </h> found in JonBenet's room. </s>", "summary": "By January 9, 1999 the police were trying to identify a stuffed bear."}
82
+ {"text": "<s> There have been no arrests, <h>and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Ramseys remain under suspicion in the homicide. </h> </s> <s> Police say <h>her parents </h> , John and Patsy Ramsey, <h>remain under suspicion. </h> </s> <s> There have been no arrests, although police have said <h>JonBenet's parents </h> , John and Patsy Ramsey, <h>are under suspicion. </h> </s>", "summary": "parents John and Patsy Ramsey are under suspicion."}
83
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The Ramseys have denied any involvement. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Ramseys have maintained their innocence. </h> </s> <s> <h>They have denied involvement. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Ramseys have proclaimed their innocence. </h> </s>", "summary": "They deny any involvement and claim police are biased against them."}
84
+ {"text": "<s> BOULDER, Colo. _ With <h>the threat looming of a grand jury inquest into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey </h> , the parents of the murdered beauty princess Thursday completed three days of questioning by prosecutors here, breaking their 16 months of official silence. </s> <s> <h>Roy </h> Romer and <h>announced that he would take the case to a grand jury soon, probably next month. </h> </s> <s> <h>``The case is going to the grand jury </h> ,'' Jim Carpenter, the governor's spokesman, said on Thursday. </s>", "summary": "Two special prosecutors began to present the case to a 12-member grand jury on September 15."}
85
+ {"text": "<s> <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last <h>talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997 </h> , were questioned separately, and in videotaped interviews by prosecutors, according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s> <s> <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997, <h>were questioned separately </h> , and in videotaped interviews by prosecutors, according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s> <s> <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997, were questioned separately, and <h>in videotaped interviews by prosecutors </h> , according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s>", "summary": "The Boulder, Colorado, District Attorney questioned them in June 1998."}
86
+ {"text": "<s> Burke was in the family's Boulder home when <h>6-year-old JonBenet </h> was found beaten and <h>strangled Dec. 26, 1996. </h> </s> <s> <h>JonBenet </h> was found beaten and <h>strangled Dec. 26 </h> , 1996 <h>in her home in Boulder </h> , Colorado. </s> <s> <h>JonBenet </h> was found beaten and <h>strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996 </h> , about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. </s>", "summary": "Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey strangled on Dec. 26, 1996 in her home"}
87
+ {"text": "<s> Burke was in the family's Boulder home when <h>6-year-old JonBenet was found beaten </h> and strangled Dec. 26, 1996. </s> <s> <h>JonBenet was found beaten </h> and strangled Dec. 26, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. </s> <s> <h>JonBenet was found beaten </h> and strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996, about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. </s>", "summary": "Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten"}
88
+ {"text": "<s> <h>There have been no arrests </h> , and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. </s> <s> <h>No arrests have been made. </h> </s> <s> <h>There have been no arrests </h> , although police have said JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, are under suspicion. </s>", "summary": "No one has been charged in the case although both Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney, and Mark Beckner"}
89
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The district attorney in Colorado overseeing the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case on Friday appointed two new special prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury. </h> </s> <s> <h>The district attorney in Colorado overseeing the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case on Friday </h> appointed two new special prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury. </s>", "summary": "both Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney, and Mark Beckner chief, have said that JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, fall under \"the umbrella of suspicion"}
90
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Three former friends of the parents of JonBenet Ramsey have asked for a special prosecutor to take over the stalled 20-month-old investigation into the slaying of JonBenet </h> , the 6-year-old Colorado beauty princess. </s> <s> Romer has stood fast in face of the new calls that he take the case away from Hunter and <h>appoint a special prosecutor. </h> </s>", "summary": "special prosecutors to counteract claims of his bias towards the Ramseys."}
91
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The human form of mad cow disease is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob. </h> </s> <s> <h>The person </h> , was not identified publicly, <h>was discovered to have variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease </h> (vCJD), which causes personality change, loss of body function, brain deterioration and eventually death, officials from the health ministry said. </s> <s> <h>Medical tests on a young Irishman have confirmed that he is suffering from variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease </h> , a Dublin hospital spokesman said on Wednesday. </s>", "summary": "A human form of the disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease causes personality change, loss of body functions, brain deterioration and death."}
92
+ {"text": "<s> The health department suspended the import of beef and related products from the United States on Dec. 24, 2003, the same day that <h>the United States announced it had discovered a case of mad cow disease. </h> </s> <s> Chen Lu-hung, director of the health department's Bureau of Food Sanitation, noted that although there was only a single case of <h>mad cow disease found in the United States </h> , the actual situation in the United States has to be evaluated. </s>", "summary": "Mad cow with isolated cases found in North America."}
93
+ {"text": "<s> A human form of the disease, which can be fatal, is believed to come from eating beef products from <h>cows struck with mad cow disease </h> , especially tissue close to the animal's nervous system. </s> <s> The fatal brain-wasting disease is believed to come from eating beef products from <h>cows struck with mad cow disease. </h> </s>", "summary": "Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy eats holes in the brains of cattle."}
94
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Mad cow </h> sprang up in Britain in 1986 and <h>spread through Europe and Asia </h> , prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. </s> <s> <h>It </h> appeared in Britain in 1986 and <h>spread through Europe and Asia </h> , prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. </s>", "summary": "Mad cow spread through Europe and Asia"}
95
+ {"text": "<s> According to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, <h>testing for mad cow disease from June 1 to </h> Oct. 17 on 85,812 cows came up negative, <h>indicating that there is very little chance that American cows have mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. </h> </s> <s> <h>According </h> to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, <h>testing for mad cow disease from June 1 </h> to Oct. 17 on 85,812 cows came up negative, indicating that there is very little chance that American cows have mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. </s>", "summary": "Widespread testing and destruction of cattle and bans on beef imports have been imposed in countries around the world including, Britain, U.S., Canada, EU, Ireland, Japan and Taiwan."}
96
+ {"text": "<s> <h>A human form of the disease </h> , which can be fatal, <h>is believed to come from eating beef products from cows </h> struck with mad cow disease, especially tissue close to the animal's nervous system. </s> <s> <h>In the mid 1990s the British government announced a probable link between BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease </h> , which can cause personality change, loss of body function, and eventually death. </s>", "summary": "Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease believed to come from eating beef"}
97
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Canada </h> , whose exports of beef products <h>are effected by a single case of mad cow disease since may 2003 </h> , has exceeded its mad cow testing target for 2004, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Sunday. </s>", "summary": "Mad cow with isolated cases found in North America."}
98
+ {"text": "<s> The European Union head office said Friday it was allocating euro98.1 million (US$122 million) on testing cattle across <h>the 25-nation bloc to prevent the spread of mad cow disease next year. </h> </s>", "summary": "Widespread testing and destruction of cattle and bans on beef imports have been imposed in countries around the world including, Britain, U.S., Canada, EU, Ireland, Japan and Taiwan."}
99
+ {"text": "<s> The two-day talks, the fourth round since <h>the ban was imposed in December </h> , come after two Japanese ministries last week recommended exempting cows aged 20 months or younger from screening tests. </s>", "summary": "In an effort many countries have placed a ban on the import of beef"}
100
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The cow </h> was born in Shikaoi, north Japan's Hokkaido region, in October 2000<h>, and was checked for mad cow disease after it died </h> , the ministry said. </s>", "summary": "Widespread testing and destruction of cattle and bans on beef imports have been imposed in countries around the world including, Britain, U.S., Canada, EU, Ireland, Japan and Taiwan."}
101
+ {"text": "<s> Some 30 or so <h>people with eating disorders </h> have hesitantly pushed their way through the doors at Sehnsucht in the month since it opened. </s> <s> Italy's TV channels broadcast twice as many commercials featuring food as their US counterparts, threatening children who watch them with serious eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia, <h>according to a study </h> published here Tuesday. </s>", "summary": "Anorexics and bulimics to be in denial."}
102
+ {"text": "<s> Montaner had been warned months before by one of her daughter's teachers <h>that Amanda might have an eating disorder. </h> </s> <s> Imagine a 20-year-old woman who refuses to eat anything except carrots and toast because she is afraid of gaining weight, even though <h>she </h> is 5-foot-8 and <h>weighs only 99 pounds. </h> </s>", "summary": "Another category binge eating"}
103
+ {"text": "<s> But in others, they believe it may be caused by subtler changes in <h>body composition caused by diet and exercise. </h> </s> <s> Shapira said that <h>when topiramate was used for epilepsy patients </h> , <h>many reported that they also had a marked decrease in appetite and even lost weight. </h> </s>", "summary": "An epilepsy medication topiramate, may help curb the urge to overeat."}
104
+ {"text": "<s> <h>This is how Emma, 15, and a fan of Web sites promoting anorexia, nearly starved herself to death </h> : She began by \"eating healthy,\" she says, choosing salads and giving up fast food. </s>", "summary": "Anorexics starve themselves"}
105
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Binge eating disorder </h> is a newly recognized condition that probably affects millions of Americans. </s>", "summary": "binge eating disorder, and variations."}
106
+ {"text": "<s> \"Now, all of a sudden, <h>they're getting older and struggling with natural changes. </h> \" </s>", "summary": "Causes include depression, stress from life events, and a need"}
107
+ {"text": "<s> <h>She </h> lost 10 kilogrammes (22 pounds), then put the weight all back on again in no <h>time and was admitted to hospital for three months in 2003. </h> </s>", "summary": "Professional consultation and hospitalization programs may help."}
108
+ {"text": "<s> But she is anorexic and has suffered from the disease, and bulimia, on and off since <h>she was 14. </h> </s>", "summary": "Historically affecting younger females and fewer males"}
109
+ {"text": "<s> But <h>she is anorexic </h> and has suffered from the disease, and bulimia, on and off since she was 14. </s>", "summary": "a psychological disorder the sufferer starves his or her body"}
110
+ {"text": "<s> Dr. Nathan Shapira, an assistant professor of psychiatry of the University of Florida's College of Medicine, is among <h>the researchers testing the effectiveness of topiramate </h> , a drug developed to treat the convulsions and seizures of epilepsy, in controlling binge eating. </s>", "summary": "An epilepsy medication topiramate, may help curb the urge to overeat."}
111
+ {"text": "<s> Fueling the relatives' anger were reports that the plane may have crashed due to <h>a technical fault </h> that <h>had affected Helios planes in the past. </h> </s> <s> A timeline of <h>events leading up to the crash Sunday of a Cypriot airliner in Greece </h> , in which 121 people were killed, as released by the Greek government. </s>", "summary": "On Sunday, August 13 Cyprus's Helios Airways Flight 522 slammed into a Greek hillside near Grammatikos"}
112
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The Cypriot airliner </h> that crashed Sunday in Greece, killing all 121 people on <h>board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure </h> that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. </s> <s> The co-pilot of the Helios Airways flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, was slumped over the controls and <h>the captain was not in the cockpit </h> , the Greek air force said after sending two F-16 jets to intercept the airliner after it failed to respond to radio calls. </s>", "summary": "The probable cause was a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure"}
113
+ {"text": "<s> ATHENS, <h>Greece -- A Cypriot passenger plane with 121 people on board crashed Sunday just north of the Greek capital </h> , after being shadowed for 43 helpless minutes by fighter jets reporting that the co-pilot was slumped over the controls and that there was no sign of the pilot. </s> <s> Shouting \"murderers,\" and \"You deserve lynching,\" the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board <h>the Helios Airways flight ZU522 </h> that <h>left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT </h> ) near Grammatiko, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. </s>", "summary": "Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca killing all 121 onboard."}
114
+ {"text": "<s> Shouting \"murderers,\" and \"You deserve lynching,\" the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board the Helios Airways flight ZU522 that left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when <h>it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT) near Grammatiko, </h> about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. </s> <s> Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos flatly rejected media speculation that <h>two air force fighter jets, </h> which <h>were sent to track the aircraft after its crew </h> failed to communicate with Greece's air traffic control on its entry, had been ordered to shoot down the plane on fears of terrorism. </s>", "summary": "Around 12:20 Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca crashed near the Greek town of Grammatikos"}
115
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The Boeing 737-300 </h> was due <h>to fly onto Prague </h> , Czech Republic, <h>after stopping in Athens. </h> </s> <s> As police cordoned off part of the crash sites with bright orange tape, <h>firefighting planes and helicopters swooped </h> overhead <h>to battle a brush fire started by the crash </h> , which rekindled at the site throughout the day. </s>", "summary": "Firefighters, rescue workers, and military helicopters sped to the scene."}
116
+ {"text": "<s> <h>One of the pilots appeared to have fallen ill or unconscious </h> , according to reports. </s> <s> \"If <h>the aircraft lost cabin pressure </h> , either in the cockpit or the cabin, effectively everybody would be doomed within a short space of time,\" said Chris Yates, an aviation analyst at Jane's Transport. </s>", "summary": "It the oxygen system caused a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure."}
117
+ {"text": "<s> The Greek government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of a terror attack after a Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private Helios Airways crashed Sunday north of Athens, <h>killing all 115 passengers and six crew members on board. </h> </s>", "summary": "Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca killing all 121 onboard."}
118
+ {"text": "<s> A timeline of events leading up to the crash Sunday of <h>a Cypriot airliner </h> in <h>Greece </h> , in which <h>121 people were killed </h> , as released by the Greek government. </s>", "summary": "Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca killing all 121 onboard."}
119
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The Cypriot airliner </h> that <h>crashed Sunday in Greece </h> , killing all 121 people on board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. </s>", "summary": "On Sunday, August 13 Cyprus's Helios Airways Flight 522 slammed into a Greek hillside near Grammatikos"}
120
+ {"text": "<s> The Greek government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of a terror attack after <h>a Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private Helios Airways crashed Sunday north of Athens </h> , killing all 115 passengers and six crew members on board. </s>", "summary": "Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed near Athens shortly past noon on 14 August 2005"}
121
+ {"text": "<s> <h>WASHINGTON </h> _ <h>The Clinton administration announced a new privacy initiative Friday aimed at protecting children and medical patients, among others. </h> </s>", "summary": "Solutions include shredding mail, guarding personal information, and checking credit reports annually."}
122
+ {"text": "<s> Calling privacy in the age of electronic commerce ``a basic American value'' that ``must be protected,'' Vice President Al Gore made public a list of a dozen or so <h>new initiatives </h> that <h>seek to tighten the security of financial and medical records and to protect the privacy of children </h> who use the Internet. </s>", "summary": "Solutions include shredding mail, guarding personal information, and checking credit reports annually."}
123
+ {"text": "<s> <h>That was in 1991. </h> </s>", "summary": "In October 1998 the President signed into law"}
124
+ {"text": "<s> Kelly says <h>he was the victim of identity theft. </h> </s>", "summary": "Identity theft assuming another person's identity"}
125
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Kelly says he was the victim of identity theft. </h> </s>", "summary": "Identity theft assuming another person's identity"}
126
+ {"text": "<s> After his wallet was stolen, he said<h>, a shoplifter </h> who <h>was arrested used Kelly's name and identification </h> ; the Los Angeles County Police Department corroborated his account. </s>", "summary": "Identity theft assuming another person's identity"}
127
+ {"text": "<s> The government's privacy rules are of special concern now because <h>the European Union plans to enforce a new electronic privacy program in October </h> and has threatened to stop doing business with companies in other countries that have looser rules. </s>", "summary": "In October the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998 making IT a felony"}
128
+ {"text": "<s> <h>After his wallet was stolen </h> , <h>he said </h> , <h>a shoplifter who was arrested used Kelly's name and identification </h> ; the Los Angeles County Police Department corroborated his account. </s>", "summary": "Identity theft assuming another person's identity"}
129
+ {"text": "<s> Congress required the Immigration and Naturalization Service to change border crossing cards _ identification cards used by frequent border crossers <h>_ to make them more fraud-resistant. </h> </s>", "summary": "Solutions guarding personal information"}
130
+ {"text": "<s> <h>``Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America </h> , maybe even the world,'' Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said at a news conference Wednesday to explain the new law. </s>", "summary": "Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America."}
131
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Experts warn people who are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. </h> </s> <s> Experts warn <h>people who are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. </h> </s> <s> The British government set targets on obesity because <h>it increases the likelihood of coronary heart disease, strokes and illnesses including diabetes. </h> </s>", "summary": "since people are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes and kidney and liver disease."}
132
+ {"text": "<s> <h>KUWAIT CITY, November 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 40 percent of Kuwaiti women are obese and suffer </h> from other chronic ailments such as vein-hardening, diabetes and hypertension, local press reported today, citing a Kuwaiti psychologist. </s> <s> According to his study, <h>42 percent of Kuwaiti women and 28 percent of men are obese. </h> </s>", "summary": "Causes are inactivity, poor diets, repeated pregnancies (Arab women), extra meals (Arab men), spoiling 'only' children (Chinese youth), fear, and anxiety."}
133
+ {"text": "<s> According to the U.N. health agency, <h>about 20 percent of diabetics </h> develop the so-called insulin-dependent form of diabetes, or IDDM, and <h>live on with insulin injections </h> , while about 30 percent of the non-IDDM cases may use insulin injections to control their conditions. </s> <s> According to the U.N. health agency, <h>about 20 percent of diabetics develop the so-called insulin-dependent form of diabetes, or IDDM </h> , and live on with insulin injections, while about 30 percent of the non-IDDM cases may use insulin injections to control their conditions. </s>", "summary": "The incidence in Britain is 16% of women and 13% of men"}
134
+ {"text": "<s> <h>The ambitious strategy to reduce coronary heart disease, strokes, cancer, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and accidents </h> was introduced by Virginia Bottomley when she was health secretary. </s> <s> <h>The ambitious strategy to reduce coronary heart disease, strokes, cancer, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and accidents was introduced by Virginia Bottomley when she was health secretary. </h> </s>", "summary": "It can lead to diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, cerebral diseases, and psychological problems."}
135
+ {"text": "<s> Medical experts suggested that citizens, <h>especially people suffering from obesity </h> , should follow advice to change their life styles and diets. </s> <s> The research showed that the ratio of <h>adults suffering from obesity </h> has reached 12.6 percent, and that of youngsters is 11.35 percent. </s>", "summary": "Obesity is a major health problem since people"}
136
+ {"text": "<s> <h>KUWAIT CITY, January 23 (Xinhua) -- More than half of the 710,000 Kuwaiti citizens are suffering from obesity and anemia because of poor eating habits and other causes </h> , according to studies by a leading local nutritionist. </s>", "summary": "Obesity arises from bad diet, a sedentary life style, anxiety, many pregnancies, sleeping too much, and increases in income."}
137
+ {"text": "<s> According to a recent city survey, more than 40 percent of the teenagers suffer from <h>anemia caused by malnutrition and about 20 percent of middle school students </h> are overweight, \"China Daily\" reports today. </s>", "summary": "The incidence in Britain is 16% of women and 13% of men"}
138
+ {"text": "<s> The study shows that <h>the 12 percent obesity is close to the standard in developed countries. </h> </s>", "summary": "Obesity is on the increase in Asian countries with rates of over 10% - equal and greater than that of developed countries."}
139
+ {"text": "<s> People in the 7-12 and 60-70 age groups run a greater risk of becoming overweight, and <h>incidence of obesity in males is higher than in females </h> , the survey showed. </s>", "summary": "The incidence in Britain is 16% of women and 13% of men"}
140
+ {"text": "<s> <h>People in the 7-12 and 60-70 age groups run a greater risk of becoming overweight </h> , and incidence of obesity in males is higher than in females, the survey showed. </s>", "summary": "Obesity rates can vary by age, gender, and education levels."}
141
+ {"text": "<s> <h>KUNMING </h> , <h>February 14 (Xinhua </h> ) -- <h>Northwest China's Yunnan Province has launched a project to strengthen environmental protection </h> , and will pour more investment into the sector. </s> <s> <h>Yunnan </h> also <h>has decided to strengthen environmental protection of its lake areas </h> , which are the main residential areas there, by working out many restrictions for the use of lake resources. </s>", "summary": "China is establishing and expanding nature reserves, closing intrusive small companies and sugar factories, moving farms,"}
142
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Regional ecological protection programs have also been launched to reduce the deterioration of the ecological environment. </h> </s> <s> <h>Regional ecological protection programs </h> have also been launched <h>to reduce the deterioration of the ecological environment. </h> </s>", "summary": "Asia and South to protect tropical rain forest threatened"}
143
+ {"text": "<s> HAIKOU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Experts from across China today called for <h>urgent action to protect the dwindling number of black gibbons in southern China's Hainan province. </h> </s>", "summary": "protecting gibbons"}
144
+ {"text": "<s> LUANDA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of Africa's lumber producers will meet in Cabinda, <h>Angola </h> to discuss and <h>work out new policy for lumber imports and exports. </h> </s>", "summary": "Significant efforts are underway"}
145
+ {"text": "<s> DAR ES SALAAM, August 5 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian Vice-President Omar Ali Juma has called for concerted efforts and cooperation among <h>African </h> nations <h>in designing programs to curb deforestation and land degradation. </h> </s>", "summary": "African countries are uniting to adopt protection policies."}
146
+ {"text": "<s> LUANDA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of Africa's lumber producers will meet in Cabinda, <h>Angola to discuss </h> and work out new policy for lumber imports and exports. </s>", "summary": "African lumber producers included rainforest onservation as a Timber Conference topic."}
147
+ {"text": "<s> RIO DE JANEIRO, August 28 (Xinhua) -- Brazil and Malaysia are to jointly launch a series of remote sensing satellites (RSS) from 1998 <h>to monitor tropical forests. </h> </s>", "summary": "satellites to monitor tropical forests."}
148
+ {"text": "<s> <h>He </h> said that there is great hope in new technologies to turn agricultural residues and wastes into useful construction materials and <h>therefore reduce dependence on wood products. </h> </s>", "summary": "closing intrusive small companies and sugar factories stopping illegal lumbering"}
149
+ {"text": "<s> They called on government departments to participate in and mobilize social forces to enhance the construction and management of a natural protection zone on <h>Bawangling Mountain </h> , where <h>black gibbons live. </h> </s>", "summary": "Its first reserve was established in the 1950s."}
150
+ {"text": "<s> The vice-president noted that deforestation and land degradation are taking place at a great pace in the country, cautioning that unless drastic measures were taken, <h>Tanzania and many other African countries would soon </h> experience <h>desertification. </h> </s>", "summary": "In Africa dwindling rain forests threaten people's survival, timber interests and Tanzania"}
151
+ {"text": "<s> Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro said last week <h>that the government has started an investigation into the wealth of former government officials, including former President Soeharto and his family. </h> </s> <s> <h>Two </h> committees have been formed by <h>the </h> public <h>to investigate the Soeharto clan's wealth. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Indonesian government has set up two teams to investigate alleged corruption by Soeharto as well as his wealth. </h> </s> <s> The Indonesian government has set up <h>two teams to investigate alleged corruption by Soeharto as well as his wealth. </h> </s> <s> <h>The decree on clean governance included a stipulation that the government investigate Soeharto's wealth. </h> </s> <s> The decree on clean governance included a stipulation that <h>the government investigate Soeharto's wealth. </h> </s>", "summary": "that the government had set up two teams to investigate Soeharto's corruption as well as his wealth."}
152
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Soeharto </h> , who abruptly resigned from the presidency on May 21 under strong pressure from the House of Representatives, his cabinet ministers and demonstrating <h>students, has been accused of amassing tens of billions of dollars from corruption, collusion and numerous shady business deals. </h> </s> <s> Ghalib came under fire after he said on Monday that he believed Soeharto's public denial of charges <h>that he had accumulated a fortune worth billions of U.S. dollars during his rule. </h> </s> <s> <h>Local and foreign reports have accused Soeharto of amassing wealth illegally during his 32-year reign and stashing </h> the fortune overseas. </s>", "summary": "he amassed a fortune worth billions of US dollars during his 32-year rule."}
153
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Soeharto </h> , who had ruled Indonesia for the last 32 years, <h>resigned on May 21 under the heavy pressure from the people </h> demanding for total reforms in political, economic and legal fields. </s> <s> <h>Soeharto </h> , who abruptly <h>resigned from the presidency on May 21 </h> under strong pressure from the House of Representatives, his cabinet ministers and demonstrating students, has been accused of amassing tens of billions of dollars from corruption, collusion and numerous shady business deals. </s> <s> American magazine Forbes estimated in July that <h>Soeharto </h> , who <h>stepped down amid mounting public pressure on May 21 </h> , had a fortune worth 4 billion U.S. dollars. </s>", "summary": "to mounting demands from students and opposition groups"}
154
+ {"text": "<s> <h>He said the special team tasked to investigate the former president has already scheduled a meeting with Soeharto. </h> </s> <s> He said <h>the special team tasked to investigate the former </h> president <h>has already scheduled a meeting with Soeharto. </h> </s> <s> He said <h>the special team tasked to investigate the former president has already </h> scheduled <h>a meeting with Soeharto. </h> </s>", "summary": "that the government had set up two teams to investigate Soeharto's corruption as well as his wealth."}
155
+ {"text": "<s> <h>Soedjono said that he has assigned junior Attorney General to carry out the investigation. </h> </s> <s> Soedjono said <h>that he has assigned junior Attorney General to carry out the investigation. </h> </s>", "summary": "the Indonesian Attorney General (AG) and his office to determine whether his rumored wealth was gained illegally."}
156
+ {"text": "<s> <h>A investigation team set up in September announced on Tuesday that some evidence of Soeharto's allegedly ill-gotten wealth has been found in several provinces including land, factories and others. </h> </s> <s> A investigation team set up in September announced on Tuesday <h>that some evidence of Soeharto's allegedly ill-gotten wealth has been found in several provinces including land, factories and others. </h> </s>", "summary": "that evidence of Soeharto's ill-gotten wealth had been found including land, factories, and U.S. $2.3 million in personal savings accounts."}
157
+ {"text": "<s> It said it would be more relevant if <h>the call for the probe into the riches of the former president and his family was made part of the decree on corruption, collusion and nepotism. </h> </s> <s> The United Development Party faction earlier asked for <h>a separate decree to contain investigation into Soeharto, officials, former officials and their families. </h> </s>", "summary": "In November 1998 the investigation became part of a general decree calling for the removal of all traces of corruption, collusion, and nepotism amongst current and former officials, their families and cronies, and businesspersons."}
158
+ {"text": "<s> WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 Tel: 202-547-4512 Fax: 202-546-4194 COPYRIGHT 1998 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED HEREIN MAY BE USED IN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION TO WORLDSOURCES, INC. JAKARTA (JP): Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro revealed here yesterday <h>that former president Soeharto has appointed a number of lawyers to represent him. </h> </s>", "summary": "Soeharto has hired several non-government lawyers because he is a private citizen now."}
159
+ {"text": "<s> JAKARTA (JP)<h>: The government has launched an investigation into corruption under former president Soeharto </h> but has no plans to specifically target the former Indonesian leader, Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro told a packed news conference here yesterday. </s>", "summary": "that the government had set up two teams to investigate Soeharto's corruption as well as his wealth."}
160
+ {"text": "<s> JAKARTA, September 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Attorney General Andi M. Ghalib Monday said he would ask former President Soeharto to sign <h>a letter of authorization </h> that <h>would enable the investigation team to probe Soeharto's overseas wealth. </h> </s>", "summary": "The investigation to include present and former government officials and wealth stashed abroad."}
161
+ {"text": "<s> MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd neared the strength of a Category 5 storm today and headed west<h>, thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate and NASA </h> began moving workers out of the low-lying Kennedy Space Center. </s> <s> More than 200,000 people on Florida's east-central coast were told to evacuate, <h>and another 200,000 were evacuated from coastal areas of Miami-Dade County. </h> </s>", "summary": "Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Florida and Georgia"}
162
+ {"text": "<s> Five Caribbean islands canceled tropical storm watches Friday night as Floyd, <h>packing winds of 110 mph </h> , moved further out to sea, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. </s> <s> Because it was still too soon to more accurately estimate the storm's landfall<h>, the entire state of Florida was placed under a hurricane warning. </h> </s>", "summary": "Warnings extended along the Atlantic Coast from South Florida to the barrier islands of South Georgia."}
163
+ {"text": "<s> WEST PALM BEACH, <h>Fla. _ Hurricane Floyd got stronger </h> and headed toward the Bahamas Saturday, packing 110 mph winds and leaving weather pundits wondering whether it will hit South Florida this week. </s>", "summary": "In early September, 1999 authorities worried about the growth of Hurricane Floyd as they tracked its movements from the Atlantic toward the U.S. coast."}
164
+ {"text": "<s> WASHINGTON, September 10 (Xinhua) -- Tropical storm Floyd strengthened Friday to become the fourth Atlantic hurricane this year, moving through the north Atlantic <h>on a path </h> that <h>will take it north of the Caribbean islands and toward the eastern United States. </h> </s>", "summary": "tropical storm Floyd moving through the North Atlantic toward the eastern US."}
165
+ {"text": "<s> NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Hurricane Floyd strengthened to a very dangerous Category 4 storm today with 155 mph wind, surprising forecasters and charging toward the Bahamas on <h>a path </h> that also <h>threatened the Florida coast. </h> </s>", "summary": "Warnings extended along the Atlantic Coast from South Florida to the barrier islands of South Georgia."}
166
+ {"text": "<s> MIAMI _ A hurricane that meteorologists said was four times the size of the infamous Andrew and potentially even <h>more destructive pounded toward Florida Monday </h> , forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and leaving countless residents to hope that the massive storm would somehow miss their cities. </s>", "summary": "the winds increase formed a liaison team"}
167
+ {"text": "<s> WASHINGTON _ This could be the storm FEMA Director James Lee Witt has been dreading since taking office six years ago: <h>a catastrophic hurricane </h> that <h>hugs the coastline from Florida </h> to the Carolinas, causing massive damage along a swath hundreds of miles long. </s>", "summary": "the first such storm to hit the coast."}
168
+ {"text": "<s> <h>WASHINGTON </h> , September 10 (Xinhua) -- <h>Tropical storm Floyd strengthened Friday to become the fourth Atlantic hurricane this year </h> , moving through the north Atlantic on a path that will take it north of the Caribbean islands and toward the eastern United States. </s>", "summary": "On September 11 tropical storm Floyd became the fourth Atlantic hurricane of the year"}
169
+ {"text": "<s> WEST PALM BEACH, <h>Fla. _ Hurricane Floyd </h> got stronger and <h>headed toward the Bahamas Saturday, packing 110 mph winds and leaving weather </h> pundits wondering whether it will hit South Florida this week. </s>", "summary": "winds progressing from 110 mph to 155 mph"}
170
+ {"text": "<s> <h>MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd neared the strength of a Category 5 storm today </h> and headed west, thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate and NASA began moving workers out of the low-lying Kennedy Space Center. </s>", "summary": "Experts speculated Floyd could become a catastrophic category 5 Hurricane, with winds over 156 miles per hour"}
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/val.source ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ <s> LITTLETON, <h>Colo. (AP </h> ) -- The sheriff's initial estimate of <h>as many as 25 dead in the Columbine High massacre was off the mark </h> apparently because the six SWAT teams that swept the building counted some victims more than once. </s> <s> Singers Amy Grant and Michael Smith joined a large bagpipe band in providing music for the crowd, joining <h>two Columbine students </h> who <h>wrote a song in honor of their fallen classmates. </h> </s>
2
+ <s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- <h>Students returned to classes Thursday at Chatfield High School </h> , but the bloodbath at rival Columbine High haunted the halls. </s> <s> Calling the return to the classroom ``a very important next step in the process of healing,'' Monseu said the first thing Columbine students will do when <h>they arrive at Chatfield High School is attend an assembly to reunite them with their teachers. </h> </s>
3
+ <s> <h>Tuesday morning 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were murdered when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, also Columbine students, opened fire with at least four guns and dozens of bombs. </h> </s> <s> Tuesday morning 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were murdered when <h>Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, </h> also Columbine students, <h>opened fire </h> with <h>at least four guns and dozens of bombs. </h> </s>
4
+ <s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The day that <h>Columbine High School students are to return to class </h> has been delayed because so many have been attending funerals for students killed in the April 20 massacre, an administrator said Tuesday. </s>
5
+ <s> LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) -- The day that Columbine High School students are to return to class has been delayed because so many have been attending funerals for <h>students killed in the April 20 massacre </h> , an administrator said Tuesday. </s>
6
+ <s> <h>COLO-SCHOOL-SHOOTING (Littleton, Colo.) _ The governor of Colorado </h> tours Columbine High School and <h>says investigators are all but certain that the two gunmen had help from others </h> ; the police say security cameras may provide crucial evidence of a conspiracy. </s>
7
+ <s> ``The problem began long before <h>they walked into school. </h> '' </s>
8
+ <s> Sheriff John Stone said Tuesday afternoon <h>that there could be as many as 25 dead. </h> </s>
9
+ <s> <h>Columbine on Saturday </h> morning <h>to pray. </h> </s>
10
+ <s> <h>Fifteen people, including the two killers </h> , <h>died Tuesday in a shooting and bombing spree at Columbine High School. </h> </s>
11
+ <s> <h>The four officers, who are scheduled to be arraigned on criminal charges in state Supreme Court in the Bronx on Wednesday </h> , <h>did not testify about the shooting before the grand jury </h> that heard their case. </s> <s> <h>NEW YORK ( </h> AP) <h>-- Four white police officers were charged with murder Wednesday for killing an unarmed African immigrant in a hail of 41 bullets </h> -- a shooting that has led to months of protests and a painful examination of police tactics and race relations. </s> <s> NEW YORK _ With <h>the indictments barely unsealed against four police officers in the Amadou Diallo shooting </h> , a battle is already taking shape over physical evidence in the case, as lawyers and experts seek to buttress their own versions of what happened based on entrance wounds, bullet trajectories and other forensic details. </s> <s> NEW YORK _ Now that <h>the four police officers charged with killing Amadou Diallo have been arraigned </h> , the next step in the legal process will come at the end of the month, when their lawyers and Bronx prosecutors are to appear before a judge to set a schedule for the pretrial proceedings. </s> <s> <h>NEW YORK </h> (AP) -- <h>A judge ordered four police officers Wednesday to stand trial for the fatal shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant. </h> </s>
12
+ <s> <h>The four officers fired 41 shots </h> , hitting Diallo 19 times. </s> <s> <h>Diallo </h> , an unarmed man with no criminal <h>history, was killed on Feb. 4 when the four officers fired 41 shots at him </h> , 19 of which hit him. </s> <s> The three-count indictment _ two for second-degree murder, one for reckless endangerment _ applied to all four of <h>the white officers </h> who <h>fired 41 bullets at African immigrant Amadou Diallo in the wee hours of Feb. 4 </h> , as he stood, unarmed, in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. </s> <s> <h>They </h> are accused <h>of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo </h> while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. </s> <s> <h>They are accused of firing 41 times at Amadou Diallo while searching for a rape suspect on Feb. 4. </h> </s>
13
+ <s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy </h> -- who were searching for a rape suspect and <h>fired apparently </h> believing Diallo had a gun -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. </s> <s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy </h> -- who were searching for a rape suspect and fired apparently <h>believing Diallo had a gun </h> -- showed little emotion when the charges were read. </s> <s> Police officials declined to say where <h>the officers _ Kenneth Boss, Richard Murphy, Carroll and McMellon _ would be working </h> , adding only that they were on modified duty and carrying no guns or badges. </s> <s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy left the courthouse </h> without comment. </s>
14
+ <s> <h>Officers Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded innocent in a Bronx courtroom to second-degree murder. </h> </s> <s> <h>The officers _ Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon, and Richard Murphy _ pleaded not guilty to the charges. </h> </s> <s> Black bystanders fell in behind the couple Wednesday as they marched two blocks to <h>a courthouse </h> where <h>four white police officers pleaded innocent to murder charges in the shooting death of the Diallos' son </h> , a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea with no criminal record. </s> <s> <h>They have all pleaded innocent to second-degree murder. </h> </s>
15
+ <s> <h>Diallo </h> , a 22-year-old immigrant who worked as a street peddler in Manhattan and attended computer <h>classes, was shot in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building Feb. 4. </h> </s> <s> <h>Amadou Diallo </h> , a 22-year-old street vendor from Guinea with no criminal record, <h>was shot 19 times Feb. 4 in his vestibule </h> by members of an elite street-crime unit looking for a rape suspect. </s> <s> Both sides hope to use forensic evidence to answer vexing questions that have loomed since Feb. 4, when Diallo was killed in fusillade of <h>41 bullets fired into the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building. </h> </s>
16
+ <s> <h>The four officers </h> fired 41 shots, <h>hitting Diallo 19 times. </h> </s> <s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless <h>when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him </h> , struck him and killed him. </s> <s> <h>Diallo was hit 19 times. </h> </s>
17
+ <s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and <h>killed him. </h> </s> <s> ``On Feb. 4, in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou </h> Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and <h>killed him </h> ,'' prosecutor Robert Johnson told the court. </s>
18
+ <s> Diallo, an unarmed man with no criminal history, was killed on Feb. 4 when the four officers fired 41 shots at him, 19 of <h>which hit him. </h> </s> <s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, <h>struck him </h> and killed him. </s>
19
+ <s> Johnson told the judge: ``On Feb. 4 in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou Diallo stood blameless, unarmed and defenseless </h> when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, struck him and killed him. </s> <s> ``On Feb. 4, in the vestibule in his own building, <h>Amadou </h> Diallo stood blameless, <h>unarmed and defenseless </h> when 19 of 41 shots were fired at him, <h>struck him </h> and killed him,'' prosecutor Robert Johnson told the court. </s>
20
+ <s> <h>Each was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of reckless endangerment. </h> </s> <s> ``I am not afraid of the forensic evidence,'' said Stephen Worth, the attorney for Officer Edward McMellon, one of <h>the four accused of second-degree murder. </h> </s>
21
+ <s> About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because <h>large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed </h> and died. </s> <s> <h>Flowering arrow bamboo is threatening a colony of endangered giant pandas in China </h> but experts have come up with a plan to save them, state media said Monday. </s> <s> <h>Arrow bamboo in two areas of the reserve </h> which they inhabit <h>is flowering, </h> which means the plant will seed and die at the end of its life span. </s>
22
+ <s> The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with <h>an estimated 1,000 living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </h> </s> <s> Last week Xinhua reported that some 7,420 hectares of bamboo, the panda's favourite food, bloomed and died in December <h>in neighboring Gansu province </h> , <h>200 </h> kilometers (120 miles) west of the Qinling mountains. </s> <s> The giant panda is one of the world's most rare and endangered species, with <h>an estimated some 1,000 living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan in southwest China, and northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </h> </s>
23
+ <s> <h>The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species, with an estimated 1,000 </h> living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </s> <s> "<h>Now China has about 1,700 giant pandas and 76 percent of them </h> live in Sichuan," said Yang, adding that the provincial government has obtained a financial support of more than 24 million yuan (2. </s> <s> <h>The giant panda is one of the world's most rare and endangered species, with an estimated some 1,000 </h> living in the mountainous regions of Sichuan in southwest China, and northwestern Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. </s>
24
+ <s> <h>About 100 giant pandas in northwest China's Gansu Province are suffering from hunger because large tracts of arrow bamboo have bloomed and died. </h> </s> <s> Zhang said that <h>at the end of a life of arrow bamboo </h> , a favorite of giant pandas, <h>the plant will flower, seed and die. </h> </s>
25
+ <s> <h>Currently, they are threatened by a severe food shortage in the wake of the withering bamboo. </h> </s> <s> Nature preserve workers in northwest China's Gansu Province have formulated a rescue plan to save giant pandas from <h>food shortage caused by arrow bamboo flowering. </h> </s>
26
+ <s> <h>By the end of 2004 </h> , <h>arrow bamboo </h> , the favorite food of <h>giants, had blossomed on 7,420 hectares at the Baishuijiang State Nature Reserve </h> in southern Gansu Province, a major habitat of pandas in China, according to a recent survey conducted by the nature reserve administration. </s> <s> Last week Xinhua reported that <h>some 7,420 hectares of bamboo </h> , the panda's favourite food, <h>bloomed </h> and died in December in neighboring Gansu province, 200 kilometers (120 miles) west of the Qinling mountains. </s>
27
+ <s> The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and <h>it takes 10 years for a new supply </h> to grow. </s> <s> Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and <h>it takes 10 years for a new supply </h> to grow. </s>
28
+ <s> The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and it takes 10 years for <h>a new supply to grow. </h> </s> <s> Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms and it takes 10 years for <h>a new supply to grow. </h> </s>
29
+ <s> <h>The giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms </h> and it takes 10 years for a new supply to grow. </s> <s> <h>Giant pandas will not eat the bamboo after it blooms </h> and it takes 10 years for a new supply to grow. </s>
30
+ <s> <h>China has 163 giant pandas in captivity. </h> </s> <s> About 1,590 giant pandas are still at large in the wild, mostly in the high mountains around Sichuan Basin, and <h>160 live in captivity. </h> </s>
31
+ <s> CANBERRA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defense Force, the police and health services are on standby to help the victims of <h>a tsunami </h> that <h>wiped out several villages </h> , killing scores of people, on PNG's remote north-west coast Friday night. </s> <s> <h>The massive tidal wave wiped seven villages </h> off the map, leaving hundreds people dead or missing. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves </h> set off by an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>killing at least 70 people and crushing villages </h> , the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New </h> Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>crushing villages and </h> leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>PORT MORESBY, Papua New </h> Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, <h>crushing villages </h> and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said the tsunami, that hit the coast west of Aitape on <h>Friday night had wiped out three villages </h> and had almost completely destroyed another, according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>
32
+ <s> <h>The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of water </h> , called tsunami, <h>hit Friday night without warning just after an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) </h> off the coast. </s> <s> <h>The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of water </h> , called tsunami, hit Friday night without <h>warning just after an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast. </h> </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>Huge sea waves set off by an earthquake </h> crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast, killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake </h> crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ <h>A tsunami spawned by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake </h> crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast, crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>The disaster occurred 30 minutes after an undersea earthquake of about 7.0 on the Richter scale </h> took place. </s>
33
+ <s> The death toll so far from <h>the tsunami </h> that <h>struck the coastline near the town of Aitape in the West Sepik </h> (Sandaun) province Friday night, was officially announced 64 and many more people were missing. </s> <s> Disaster authorities said <h>the seismic sea wave struck to the west of the town of Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , hitting at least four villages _ Sissano, Warapu, Arop and Malol. </s> <s> <h>Disaster authorities said the wave struck to the west of the town of Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , hitting at least four villages. </s> <s> <h>Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, <h>said the tsunami that hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another. </h> </s> <s> <h>Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province </h> , on Papua New Guinea's northwest coast, <h>said the tsunami that hit the coast west of the village on Friday night had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another. </h> </s> <s> Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said <h>the tsunami </h> , that <h>hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night </h> had wiped out three villages and had almost completely destroyed another, according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>
34
+ <s> <h>And Warapu village had also been completely destroyed </h> , with 11 confirmed deaths and many missing. </s> <s> <h>The Warapu village had also been completely destroyed </h> , with 11 confirmed deaths and many missing, Igara said. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, <h>the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out </h> , and the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </s>
35
+ <s> <h>The massive tidal wave </h> wiped seven villages off the map, <h>leaving hundreds people dead or missing. </h> </s> <s> ``We expect that about 3,000 people have been made homeless and <h>there has been an estimate of about 300 people dead or missing </h> ,'' Fr. </s> <s> ``We expect that about 3,000 people have been made homeless and <h>there has been an estimate of about 300 people dead or missing </h> ,'' Fr. </s> <s> <h>The tidal wave </h> smashed into the northwestern coastline near the town of Aitape in West Sepik province, <h>killing at least 600 people </h> , according to reports reaching here. </s>
36
+ <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ Huge sea waves set off by <h>an earthquake crashed against Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , killing at least 70 people and crushing villages, the country's National Disaster Center said. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by <h>a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , crushing villages and leaving hundreds missing, officials said Sunday. </s> <s> PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) _ A tsunami spawned by <h>a 7.0 magnitude earthquake crashed into Papua New Guinea's north coast </h> , crushing villages and killing nearly 600 people, officials said Sunday. </s>
37
+ <s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h> following an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s> <s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h> following an earthquake about 12 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s> <s> The 23-foot (seven-meter) wall of <h>water hit Friday night without warning </h> following an earthquake about 18 miles (30 kilometers) off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean. </s>
38
+ <s> <h>CANBERRA </h> , July 19 (Xinhua) -- The death toll in Papua New Guinea's (<h>PNG) tsunami disaster has climbed to 599 </h> and is expected to rise, a PNG disaster control officer said Sunday. </s> <s> <h>At Warapu 500 people had been confirmed dead. </h> </s> <s> "<h>The latest death toll for the district is 599 </h> ," Dickson Dalle, chairman of district disaster coordinating, was quoted as telling reporters. </s>
39
+ <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out and <h>the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </h> </s> <s> Dalle said the Nimas village near the Sissano lagoon, the Warapu village and the Arop village had been wiped out, and <h>the Malol village had almost been completely destroyed. </h> </s> <s> Authorities at Aitape in the West Sepik province, on PNG's north-west coast, said the tsunami, that hit the coast west of Aitape on Friday night had wiped out three villages and <h>had almost completely destroyed another </h> , according to an Australian Associated Press report sent Sunday from Aitape. </s>
40
+ <s> <h>Among the dead are scores of schoolchildren. </h> </s> <s> Dalle said <h>most of the victims of the disaster were old people and schoolchildren. </h> </s> <s> Dalle said <h>most of the victims of the disaster were old people and schoolchildren. </h> </s>
41
+ <s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered <h>a gene </h> which, when mutated, <h>causes Parkinson's disease in some families. </h> </s>
42
+ <s> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An international research team, led by scientists at the National Institute on Aging (NIA), has discovered <h>a gene </h> which, <h>when mutated </h> , causes Parkinson's disease in some families. </s>
43
+ <s> Although <h>Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited </h> , <h>the </h> discovery of this gene and further study of how it works could open up new avenues of research for preventing or delaying the onset of the disease. </s>
44
+ <s> The loss of <h>cells </h> that <h>produce the neurotransmitter dopamine </h> causes the telltale tremors, rigid and slow movements of Parkinson's. </s>
45
+ <s> Although Parkinson's disease is usually not inherited, the discovery of this gene and further study of how <h>it works could open up new avenues of research for preventing or delaying the onset of the disease. </h> </s>
46
+ <s> Like <h>many degenerative brain diseases </h> , <h>including Parkinson's and Alzheimer </h> 's, proteins targeted in the disease process begin misfolding and clumping in or around brain cells, which are called neurons. </s>
47
+ <s> <h>What is Lewy body disease? </h> </s>
48
+ <s> Supporters of the measure say the decision could help find cures to diseases including cancer, AIDS, spinal cord injuries, <h>Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease </h> more quickly than <h>had been expected. </h> </s>
49
+ <s> First, the group identified a small region of the "chromosome 12" shared by all of the Basque families and then systematically assessed each gene in this region <h>for mutations </h> that <h>might cause </h> disease. </s>
50
+ <s> <h>It is a form of dementia </h> that the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke calls dementia with Lewy bodies. </s>
51
+ <s> Long-term studies are not yet available <h>on Bextra, </h> which <h>was approved in 2001. </h> </s> <s> Pfizer said it is already conducting research into whether Bextra increases the risk of heart attacks in <h>people taking the drug for chronic pain. </h> </s>
52
+ <s> Merck &amp; Co. said its surprise decision <h>Thursday to withdraw the arthritis drug Vioxx -- used by about 2 million people worldwide </h> -- was driven by recent evidence that the drug's adverse side effects outweighed any potential benefits. </s>
53
+ <s> The Food and Drug Administration silenced one of its drug experts who raised safety concerns weeks before Merck &amp; <h>Co. </h> yanked <h>the blockbuster drug Vioxx </h> due <h>to increased risks for heart attack and strokes </h> , the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Thursday. </s>
54
+ <s> Pfizer Inc. warned doctors on Friday that <h>one of its bestselling painkillers </h> , <h>Bextra </h> , <h>might increase the risk of a heart attack or stroke in coronary artery bypass </h> surgery patients. </s>
55
+ <s> <h>Seven weeks </h> before Merck &amp; <h>Co. pulled the arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because of safety concerns </h> , federal drug regulators downplayed the significance of scientific findings citing the increased risks, documents released Thursday show. </s>
56
+ <s> Momentum was growing for a fresh look at the safety of Celebrex and other pain relievers as key researchers, a congressman and European regulators said they feared such drugs might raise the risk of heart problems like <h>those blamed on the arthritis medicine Vioxx. </h> </s>
57
+ <s> The announcement comes just two weeks after Merck pulled <h>its painkiller </h> , Vioxx, which <h>is in the same class of drugs as Bextra </h> , from the market because a study showed that the risk of heart attacks doubled for patients who had taken Vioxx for 18 months or longer. </s>
58
+ <s> Vioxx was approved after trials held under the auspices of the Food and Drug Administration showed it to be effective (which <h>it was </h> ). </s>
59
+ <s> Vioxx was approved after trials held under the auspices of the Food and <h>Drug Administration showed it to be effective </h> (which it was). </s>
60
+ <s> <h>The announcement comes just two weeks after Merck pulled its painkiller </h> , Vioxx, which is in the same class of drugs as Bextra, from the market because a study showed that the risk of heart attacks doubled for patients who had taken Vioxx for 18 months or longer. </s>
61
+ <s> MACAO, December 9 (Xinhua) -- Macao experts today warned residents to be careful but not panic <h>over the bird flu </h> that <h>has killed children in neighboring Hong Kong. </h> </s> <s> And of the six others confirmed of being infected of the H5N1 virus, two have recovered and been discharged from hospital and <h>four others are still under treatment with their condition satisfactory </h> , according to the DH update. </s>
62
+ <s> The poultry imported from China's inland areas are from a different source from <h>those imported by Hong Kong </h> , they said. </s> <s> HONG KONG, December 16 (Xinhua) -- The bird flu <h>in Hong Kong, </h> which <h>has killed two people </h> , has not become an epidemic, a local senior health official said today. </s>
63
+ <s> <h>All hospitals and clinics in Hong Kong have been ordered to test patients for the flu. </h> </s> <s> HONG KONG, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) set up an inter-department working <h>group </h> today <h>to coordinate efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread of a mysterious "bird flu </h> " that has killed two people. </s>
64
+ <s> <h>Investigators </h> fanned out across the territory Monday, <h>checking poultry farms for traces of the disease amid the speculation that it could have been passed to humans by chickens. </h> </s> <s> <h>Chickens have been identified as the most likely source of a new strain of the flu. </h> </s>
65
+ <s> <h>A three-year-old boy and a man died earlier this year after catching the "bird flu </h> ", or H5N1 strain of influenza, and a 13-year-old girl is in hospital with the disease. </s> <s> It is still unclear in which <h>way human being catches the virus. </h> </s>
66
+ <s> <h>There has been no evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus </h> , and no infected chickens have been found at the market, according to a source from the local health department. </s> <s> <h>Because strict preventive measures have been taken for a long period </h> , Zhao said, there has been no bird flu epidemic in recent years among Shenzhen's 168 chicken runs and 38 pigeon farms. </s>
67
+ <s> HONG KONG, December 25 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Department of Health (DH) on Thursday reported four more suspected cases of Influenza A H5N1, bringing the number to 10 in addition to <h>nine confirmed cases. </h> </s>
68
+ <s> HONG KONG, December 15 (Xinhua) -- The government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) set up an inter-department working group today to coordinate efforts towards the prevention and control of the spread <h>of a mysterious "bird flu" </h> that <h>has killed two people. </h> </s>
69
+ <s> HONG KONG, December 8 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong health authorities are stepping up the hunt for the source of a deadly influenza strain previously found only <h>in birds </h> which <h>has caused a global alert. </h> </s>
70
+ <s> The Department of Health prepared a fact sheet to explain to <h>tourists the avian flu, </h> which <h>is caused by a virus H5N1 </h> that is only found in poultry. </s>
71
+ <s> <h>Almost 200 million oysters have been planted since 2001 </h> , officials said. </s> <s> <h>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation </h> will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday, <h>signaling a more aggressive strategy for a group </h> that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay. </s>
72
+ <s> In its petition filed in December, the bay foundation noted that <h>almost </h> none of those sewage plants had permits that limited nitrogen pollution and <h>asked the EPA to remedy that. </h> </s> <s> <h>This </h> would mean reducing nitrogen and phosphorus, found in suburban lawn fertilizer, <h>processed sewage and animal manure. </h> </s>
73
+ <s> <h>The Chesapeake Bay Foundation will file a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday </h> , signaling a more aggressive strategy for a group that has grown increasingly frustrated over the slow progress in cleaning up the bay. </s>
74
+ <s> Halfway through <h>a 10-year program to save the Chesapeake Bay </h> , political leaders are acknowledging that the vaunted cleanup is faltering and are calling for major changes midstream. </s>
75
+ <s> <h>In 2000 </h> , <h>the Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., and several states vowed that the Chesapeake Bay would be cleaned up within 10 years. </h> </s>
76
+ <s> <h>Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay </h> , the states of Delaware and New Jersey said this week, joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. </s>
77
+ <s> Maryland may be rushing crucial research on introducing Asian oysters into the Chesapeake Bay, <h>the states of Delaware and New Jersey </h> said this week, <h>joining several federal agencies in asking that the new species be studied further. </h> </s>
78
+ <s> The states issued a statement saying that <h>the Asian oyster </h> is still ``a virtual unknown'' and <h>could bring diseases or other ecological problems that would spread to their coasts. </h> </s>
79
+ <s> <h>The states issued a statement saying that the Asian oyster is still ``a virtual unknown'' and could bring diseases or other ecological problems </h> that would spread to their coasts. </s>
80
+ <s> The Chesapeake Executive Council, a group of state and <h>federal officials overseeing the bay cleanup </h> , voted to support a new central financing authority with the power to disperse billions to various Chesapeake-related projects. </s>
81
+ <s> <h>The toy </h> was reportedly <h>among stuffed animals found in JonBenet's room </h> , but family members said it did not belong to the little girl. </s> <s> <h>The toy was reportedly among stuffed animals </h> found in JonBenet's room, but family members said it did not belong to the little girl. </s> <s> <h>The toy </h> was reportedly <h>among stuffed animals found in JonBenet's room. </h> </s> <s> <h>The toy was reportedly among stuffed animals </h> found in JonBenet's room. </s>
82
+ <s> There have been no arrests, <h>and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Ramseys remain under suspicion in the homicide. </h> </s> <s> Police say <h>her parents </h> , John and Patsy Ramsey, <h>remain under suspicion. </h> </s> <s> There have been no arrests, although police have said <h>JonBenet's parents </h> , John and Patsy Ramsey, <h>are under suspicion. </h> </s>
83
+ <s> <h>The Ramseys have denied any involvement. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Ramseys have maintained their innocence. </h> </s> <s> <h>They have denied involvement. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Ramseys have proclaimed their innocence. </h> </s>
84
+ <s> BOULDER, Colo. _ With <h>the threat looming of a grand jury inquest into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey </h> , the parents of the murdered beauty princess Thursday completed three days of questioning by prosecutors here, breaking their 16 months of official silence. </s> <s> <h>Roy </h> Romer and <h>announced that he would take the case to a grand jury soon, probably next month. </h> </s> <s> <h>``The case is going to the grand jury </h> ,'' Jim Carpenter, the governor's spokesman, said on Thursday. </s>
85
+ <s> <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last <h>talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997 </h> , were questioned separately, and in videotaped interviews by prosecutors, according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s> <s> <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997, <h>were questioned separately </h> , and in videotaped interviews by prosecutors, according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s> <s> <h>John and Patsy Ramsey </h> , who last talked to Boulder investigators on April 30, 1997, were questioned separately, and <h>in videotaped interviews by prosecutors </h> , according to Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney. </s>
86
+ <s> Burke was in the family's Boulder home when <h>6-year-old JonBenet </h> was found beaten and <h>strangled Dec. 26, 1996. </h> </s> <s> <h>JonBenet </h> was found beaten and <h>strangled Dec. 26 </h> , 1996 <h>in her home in Boulder </h> , Colorado. </s> <s> <h>JonBenet </h> was found beaten and <h>strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996 </h> , about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. </s>
87
+ <s> Burke was in the family's Boulder home when <h>6-year-old JonBenet was found beaten </h> and strangled Dec. 26, 1996. </s> <s> <h>JonBenet was found beaten </h> and strangled Dec. 26, 1996 in her home in Boulder, Colorado. </s> <s> <h>JonBenet was found beaten </h> and strangled in the basement of her family's home Dec. 26, 1996, about eight hours after her mother discovered a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her safe return. </s>
88
+ <s> <h>There have been no arrests </h> , and authorities have said only that Patsy and John Ramsey are under suspicion. </s> <s> <h>No arrests have been made. </h> </s> <s> <h>There have been no arrests </h> , although police have said JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, are under suspicion. </s>
89
+ <s> <h>The district attorney in Colorado overseeing the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case on Friday appointed two new special prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury. </h> </s> <s> <h>The district attorney in Colorado overseeing the JonBenet Ramsey homicide case on Friday </h> appointed two new special prosecutors to present evidence to a grand jury. </s>
90
+ <s> <h>Three former friends of the parents of JonBenet Ramsey have asked for a special prosecutor to take over the stalled 20-month-old investigation into the slaying of JonBenet </h> , the 6-year-old Colorado beauty princess. </s> <s> Romer has stood fast in face of the new calls that he take the case away from Hunter and <h>appoint a special prosecutor. </h> </s>
91
+ <s> <h>The human form of mad cow disease is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob. </h> </s> <s> <h>The person </h> , was not identified publicly, <h>was discovered to have variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease </h> (vCJD), which causes personality change, loss of body function, brain deterioration and eventually death, officials from the health ministry said. </s> <s> <h>Medical tests on a young Irishman have confirmed that he is suffering from variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease </h> , a Dublin hospital spokesman said on Wednesday. </s>
92
+ <s> The health department suspended the import of beef and related products from the United States on Dec. 24, 2003, the same day that <h>the United States announced it had discovered a case of mad cow disease. </h> </s> <s> Chen Lu-hung, director of the health department's Bureau of Food Sanitation, noted that although there was only a single case of <h>mad cow disease found in the United States </h> , the actual situation in the United States has to be evaluated. </s>
93
+ <s> A human form of the disease, which can be fatal, is believed to come from eating beef products from <h>cows struck with mad cow disease </h> , especially tissue close to the animal's nervous system. </s> <s> The fatal brain-wasting disease is believed to come from eating beef products from <h>cows struck with mad cow disease. </h> </s>
94
+ <s> <h>Mad cow </h> sprang up in Britain in 1986 and <h>spread through Europe and Asia </h> , prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. </s> <s> <h>It </h> appeared in Britain in 1986 and <h>spread through Europe and Asia </h> , prompting massive destruction of herds and devastating the European beef industry. </s>
95
+ <s> According to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, <h>testing for mad cow disease from June 1 to </h> Oct. 17 on 85,812 cows came up negative, <h>indicating that there is very little chance that American cows have mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. </h> </s> <s> <h>According </h> to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, <h>testing for mad cow disease from June 1 </h> to Oct. 17 on 85,812 cows came up negative, indicating that there is very little chance that American cows have mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy. </s>
96
+ <s> <h>A human form of the disease </h> , which can be fatal, <h>is believed to come from eating beef products from cows </h> struck with mad cow disease, especially tissue close to the animal's nervous system. </s> <s> <h>In the mid 1990s the British government announced a probable link between BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease </h> , which can cause personality change, loss of body function, and eventually death. </s>
97
+ <s> <h>Canada </h> , whose exports of beef products <h>are effected by a single case of mad cow disease since may 2003 </h> , has exceeded its mad cow testing target for 2004, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reported Sunday. </s>
98
+ <s> The European Union head office said Friday it was allocating euro98.1 million (US$122 million) on testing cattle across <h>the 25-nation bloc to prevent the spread of mad cow disease next year. </h> </s>
99
+ <s> The two-day talks, the fourth round since <h>the ban was imposed in December </h> , come after two Japanese ministries last week recommended exempting cows aged 20 months or younger from screening tests. </s>
100
+ <s> <h>The cow </h> was born in Shikaoi, north Japan's Hokkaido region, in October 2000<h>, and was checked for mad cow disease after it died </h> , the ministry said. </s>
101
+ <s> Some 30 or so <h>people with eating disorders </h> have hesitantly pushed their way through the doors at Sehnsucht in the month since it opened. </s> <s> Italy's TV channels broadcast twice as many commercials featuring food as their US counterparts, threatening children who watch them with serious eating disorders such as bulimia and anorexia, <h>according to a study </h> published here Tuesday. </s>
102
+ <s> Montaner had been warned months before by one of her daughter's teachers <h>that Amanda might have an eating disorder. </h> </s> <s> Imagine a 20-year-old woman who refuses to eat anything except carrots and toast because she is afraid of gaining weight, even though <h>she </h> is 5-foot-8 and <h>weighs only 99 pounds. </h> </s>
103
+ <s> But in others, they believe it may be caused by subtler changes in <h>body composition caused by diet and exercise. </h> </s> <s> Shapira said that <h>when topiramate was used for epilepsy patients </h> , <h>many reported that they also had a marked decrease in appetite and even lost weight. </h> </s>
104
+ <s> <h>This is how Emma, 15, and a fan of Web sites promoting anorexia, nearly starved herself to death </h> : She began by "eating healthy," she says, choosing salads and giving up fast food. </s>
105
+ <s> <h>Binge eating disorder </h> is a newly recognized condition that probably affects millions of Americans. </s>
106
+ <s> "Now, all of a sudden, <h>they're getting older and struggling with natural changes. </h> " </s>
107
+ <s> <h>She </h> lost 10 kilogrammes (22 pounds), then put the weight all back on again in no <h>time and was admitted to hospital for three months in 2003. </h> </s>
108
+ <s> But she is anorexic and has suffered from the disease, and bulimia, on and off since <h>she was 14. </h> </s>
109
+ <s> But <h>she is anorexic </h> and has suffered from the disease, and bulimia, on and off since she was 14. </s>
110
+ <s> Dr. Nathan Shapira, an assistant professor of psychiatry of the University of Florida's College of Medicine, is among <h>the researchers testing the effectiveness of topiramate </h> , a drug developed to treat the convulsions and seizures of epilepsy, in controlling binge eating. </s>
111
+ <s> Fueling the relatives' anger were reports that the plane may have crashed due to <h>a technical fault </h> that <h>had affected Helios planes in the past. </h> </s> <s> A timeline of <h>events leading up to the crash Sunday of a Cypriot airliner in Greece </h> , in which 121 people were killed, as released by the Greek government. </s>
112
+ <s> <h>The Cypriot airliner </h> that crashed Sunday in Greece, killing all 121 people on <h>board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure </h> that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. </s> <s> The co-pilot of the Helios Airways flight from Larnaca, Cyprus, was slumped over the controls and <h>the captain was not in the cockpit </h> , the Greek air force said after sending two F-16 jets to intercept the airliner after it failed to respond to radio calls. </s>
113
+ <s> ATHENS, <h>Greece -- A Cypriot passenger plane with 121 people on board crashed Sunday just north of the Greek capital </h> , after being shadowed for 43 helpless minutes by fighter jets reporting that the co-pilot was slumped over the controls and that there was no sign of the pilot. </s> <s> Shouting "murderers," and "You deserve lynching," the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board <h>the Helios Airways flight ZU522 </h> that <h>left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT </h> ) near Grammatiko, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. </s>
114
+ <s> Shouting "murderers," and "You deserve lynching," the crowd demanded to know whether their relatives were actually on board the Helios Airways flight ZU522 that left Larnaca for Athens International Airport when <h>it crashed at about 12:20 p.m. (0920GMT) near Grammatiko, </h> about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Greek capital. </s> <s> Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos flatly rejected media speculation that <h>two air force fighter jets, </h> which <h>were sent to track the aircraft after its crew </h> failed to communicate with Greece's air traffic control on its entry, had been ordered to shoot down the plane on fears of terrorism. </s>
115
+ <s> <h>The Boeing 737-300 </h> was due <h>to fly onto Prague </h> , Czech Republic, <h>after stopping in Athens. </h> </s> <s> As police cordoned off part of the crash sites with bright orange tape, <h>firefighting planes and helicopters swooped </h> overhead <h>to battle a brush fire started by the crash </h> , which rekindled at the site throughout the day. </s>
116
+ <s> <h>One of the pilots appeared to have fallen ill or unconscious </h> , according to reports. </s> <s> "If <h>the aircraft lost cabin pressure </h> , either in the cockpit or the cabin, effectively everybody would be doomed within a short space of time," said Chris Yates, an aviation analyst at Jane's Transport. </s>
117
+ <s> The Greek government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of a terror attack after a Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private Helios Airways crashed Sunday north of Athens, <h>killing all 115 passengers and six crew members on board. </h> </s>
118
+ <s> A timeline of events leading up to the crash Sunday of <h>a Cypriot airliner </h> in <h>Greece </h> , in which <h>121 people were killed </h> , as released by the Greek government. </s>
119
+ <s> <h>The Cypriot airliner </h> that <h>crashed Sunday in Greece </h> , killing all 121 people on board, may have experienced a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure that rapidly starved the pilots of oxygen, aviation experts said. </s>
120
+ <s> The Greek government on Sunday ruled out the possibility of a terror attack after <h>a Cypriot Boeing 737 operated by the private Helios Airways crashed Sunday north of Athens </h> , killing all 115 passengers and six crew members on board. </s>
121
+ <s> <h>WASHINGTON </h> _ <h>The Clinton administration announced a new privacy initiative Friday aimed at protecting children and medical patients, among others. </h> </s>
122
+ <s> Calling privacy in the age of electronic commerce ``a basic American value'' that ``must be protected,'' Vice President Al Gore made public a list of a dozen or so <h>new initiatives </h> that <h>seek to tighten the security of financial and medical records and to protect the privacy of children </h> who use the Internet. </s>
123
+ <s> <h>That was in 1991. </h> </s>
124
+ <s> Kelly says <h>he was the victim of identity theft. </h> </s>
125
+ <s> <h>Kelly says he was the victim of identity theft. </h> </s>
126
+ <s> After his wallet was stolen, he said<h>, a shoplifter </h> who <h>was arrested used Kelly's name and identification </h> ; the Los Angeles County Police Department corroborated his account. </s>
127
+ <s> The government's privacy rules are of special concern now because <h>the European Union plans to enforce a new electronic privacy program in October </h> and has threatened to stop doing business with companies in other countries that have looser rules. </s>
128
+ <s> <h>After his wallet was stolen </h> , <h>he said </h> , <h>a shoplifter who was arrested used Kelly's name and identification </h> ; the Los Angeles County Police Department corroborated his account. </s>
129
+ <s> Congress required the Immigration and Naturalization Service to change border crossing cards _ identification cards used by frequent border crossers <h>_ to make them more fraud-resistant. </h> </s>
130
+ <s> <h>``Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in America </h> , maybe even the world,'' Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti said at a news conference Wednesday to explain the new law. </s>
131
+ <s> <h>Experts warn people who are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. </h> </s> <s> Experts warn <h>people who are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes, and kidney and liver disease. </h> </s> <s> The British government set targets on obesity because <h>it increases the likelihood of coronary heart disease, strokes and illnesses including diabetes. </h> </s>
132
+ <s> <h>KUWAIT CITY, November 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 40 percent of Kuwaiti women are obese and suffer </h> from other chronic ailments such as vein-hardening, diabetes and hypertension, local press reported today, citing a Kuwaiti psychologist. </s> <s> According to his study, <h>42 percent of Kuwaiti women and 28 percent of men are obese. </h> </s>
133
+ <s> According to the U.N. health agency, <h>about 20 percent of diabetics </h> develop the so-called insulin-dependent form of diabetes, or IDDM, and <h>live on with insulin injections </h> , while about 30 percent of the non-IDDM cases may use insulin injections to control their conditions. </s> <s> According to the U.N. health agency, <h>about 20 percent of diabetics develop the so-called insulin-dependent form of diabetes, or IDDM </h> , and live on with insulin injections, while about 30 percent of the non-IDDM cases may use insulin injections to control their conditions. </s>
134
+ <s> <h>The ambitious strategy to reduce coronary heart disease, strokes, cancer, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and accidents </h> was introduced by Virginia Bottomley when she was health secretary. </s> <s> <h>The ambitious strategy to reduce coronary heart disease, strokes, cancer, mental illness, sexually transmitted diseases and accidents was introduced by Virginia Bottomley when she was health secretary. </h> </s>
135
+ <s> Medical experts suggested that citizens, <h>especially people suffering from obesity </h> , should follow advice to change their life styles and diets. </s> <s> The research showed that the ratio of <h>adults suffering from obesity </h> has reached 12.6 percent, and that of youngsters is 11.35 percent. </s>
136
+ <s> <h>KUWAIT CITY, January 23 (Xinhua) -- More than half of the 710,000 Kuwaiti citizens are suffering from obesity and anemia because of poor eating habits and other causes </h> , according to studies by a leading local nutritionist. </s>
137
+ <s> According to a recent city survey, more than 40 percent of the teenagers suffer from <h>anemia caused by malnutrition and about 20 percent of middle school students </h> are overweight, "China Daily" reports today. </s>
138
+ <s> The study shows that <h>the 12 percent obesity is close to the standard in developed countries. </h> </s>
139
+ <s> People in the 7-12 and 60-70 age groups run a greater risk of becoming overweight, and <h>incidence of obesity in males is higher than in females </h> , the survey showed. </s>
140
+ <s> <h>People in the 7-12 and 60-70 age groups run a greater risk of becoming overweight </h> , and incidence of obesity in males is higher than in females, the survey showed. </s>
141
+ <s> <h>KUNMING </h> , <h>February 14 (Xinhua </h> ) -- <h>Northwest China's Yunnan Province has launched a project to strengthen environmental protection </h> , and will pour more investment into the sector. </s> <s> <h>Yunnan </h> also <h>has decided to strengthen environmental protection of its lake areas </h> , which are the main residential areas there, by working out many restrictions for the use of lake resources. </s>
142
+ <s> <h>Regional ecological protection programs have also been launched to reduce the deterioration of the ecological environment. </h> </s> <s> <h>Regional ecological protection programs </h> have also been launched <h>to reduce the deterioration of the ecological environment. </h> </s>
143
+ <s> HAIKOU, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Experts from across China today called for <h>urgent action to protect the dwindling number of black gibbons in southern China's Hainan province. </h> </s>
144
+ <s> LUANDA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of Africa's lumber producers will meet in Cabinda, <h>Angola </h> to discuss and <h>work out new policy for lumber imports and exports. </h> </s>
145
+ <s> DAR ES SALAAM, August 5 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian Vice-President Omar Ali Juma has called for concerted efforts and cooperation among <h>African </h> nations <h>in designing programs to curb deforestation and land degradation. </h> </s>
146
+ <s> LUANDA, April 12 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial meeting of Africa's lumber producers will meet in Cabinda, <h>Angola to discuss </h> and work out new policy for lumber imports and exports. </s>
147
+ <s> RIO DE JANEIRO, August 28 (Xinhua) -- Brazil and Malaysia are to jointly launch a series of remote sensing satellites (RSS) from 1998 <h>to monitor tropical forests. </h> </s>
148
+ <s> <h>He </h> said that there is great hope in new technologies to turn agricultural residues and wastes into useful construction materials and <h>therefore reduce dependence on wood products. </h> </s>
149
+ <s> They called on government departments to participate in and mobilize social forces to enhance the construction and management of a natural protection zone on <h>Bawangling Mountain </h> , where <h>black gibbons live. </h> </s>
150
+ <s> The vice-president noted that deforestation and land degradation are taking place at a great pace in the country, cautioning that unless drastic measures were taken, <h>Tanzania and many other African countries would soon </h> experience <h>desertification. </h> </s>
151
+ <s> Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro said last week <h>that the government has started an investigation into the wealth of former government officials, including former President Soeharto and his family. </h> </s> <s> <h>Two </h> committees have been formed by <h>the </h> public <h>to investigate the Soeharto clan's wealth. </h> </s> <s> <h>The Indonesian government has set up two teams to investigate alleged corruption by Soeharto as well as his wealth. </h> </s> <s> The Indonesian government has set up <h>two teams to investigate alleged corruption by Soeharto as well as his wealth. </h> </s> <s> <h>The decree on clean governance included a stipulation that the government investigate Soeharto's wealth. </h> </s> <s> The decree on clean governance included a stipulation that <h>the government investigate Soeharto's wealth. </h> </s>
152
+ <s> <h>Soeharto </h> , who abruptly resigned from the presidency on May 21 under strong pressure from the House of Representatives, his cabinet ministers and demonstrating <h>students, has been accused of amassing tens of billions of dollars from corruption, collusion and numerous shady business deals. </h> </s> <s> Ghalib came under fire after he said on Monday that he believed Soeharto's public denial of charges <h>that he had accumulated a fortune worth billions of U.S. dollars during his rule. </h> </s> <s> <h>Local and foreign reports have accused Soeharto of amassing wealth illegally during his 32-year reign and stashing </h> the fortune overseas. </s>
153
+ <s> <h>Soeharto </h> , who had ruled Indonesia for the last 32 years, <h>resigned on May 21 under the heavy pressure from the people </h> demanding for total reforms in political, economic and legal fields. </s> <s> <h>Soeharto </h> , who abruptly <h>resigned from the presidency on May 21 </h> under strong pressure from the House of Representatives, his cabinet ministers and demonstrating students, has been accused of amassing tens of billions of dollars from corruption, collusion and numerous shady business deals. </s> <s> American magazine Forbes estimated in July that <h>Soeharto </h> , who <h>stepped down amid mounting public pressure on May 21 </h> , had a fortune worth 4 billion U.S. dollars. </s>
154
+ <s> <h>He said the special team tasked to investigate the former president has already scheduled a meeting with Soeharto. </h> </s> <s> He said <h>the special team tasked to investigate the former </h> president <h>has already scheduled a meeting with Soeharto. </h> </s> <s> He said <h>the special team tasked to investigate the former president has already </h> scheduled <h>a meeting with Soeharto. </h> </s>
155
+ <s> <h>Soedjono said that he has assigned junior Attorney General to carry out the investigation. </h> </s> <s> Soedjono said <h>that he has assigned junior Attorney General to carry out the investigation. </h> </s>
156
+ <s> <h>A investigation team set up in September announced on Tuesday that some evidence of Soeharto's allegedly ill-gotten wealth has been found in several provinces including land, factories and others. </h> </s> <s> A investigation team set up in September announced on Tuesday <h>that some evidence of Soeharto's allegedly ill-gotten wealth has been found in several provinces including land, factories and others. </h> </s>
157
+ <s> It said it would be more relevant if <h>the call for the probe into the riches of the former president and his family was made part of the decree on corruption, collusion and nepotism. </h> </s> <s> The United Development Party faction earlier asked for <h>a separate decree to contain investigation into Soeharto, officials, former officials and their families. </h> </s>
158
+ <s> WASHINGTON, D.C. 20003 Tel: 202-547-4512 Fax: 202-546-4194 COPYRIGHT 1998 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH, INC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED HEREIN MAY BE USED IN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION TO WORLDSOURCES, INC. JAKARTA (JP): Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro revealed here yesterday <h>that former president Soeharto has appointed a number of lawyers to represent him. </h> </s>
159
+ <s> JAKARTA (JP)<h>: The government has launched an investigation into corruption under former president Soeharto </h> but has no plans to specifically target the former Indonesian leader, Attorney General Soedjono C. Atmonegoro told a packed news conference here yesterday. </s>
160
+ <s> JAKARTA, September 22 (Xinhua) -- Indonesian Attorney General Andi M. Ghalib Monday said he would ask former President Soeharto to sign <h>a letter of authorization </h> that <h>would enable the investigation team to probe Soeharto's overseas wealth. </h> </s>
161
+ <s> MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd neared the strength of a Category 5 storm today and headed west<h>, thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate and NASA </h> began moving workers out of the low-lying Kennedy Space Center. </s> <s> More than 200,000 people on Florida's east-central coast were told to evacuate, <h>and another 200,000 were evacuated from coastal areas of Miami-Dade County. </h> </s>
162
+ <s> Five Caribbean islands canceled tropical storm watches Friday night as Floyd, <h>packing winds of 110 mph </h> , moved further out to sea, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. </s> <s> Because it was still too soon to more accurately estimate the storm's landfall<h>, the entire state of Florida was placed under a hurricane warning. </h> </s>
163
+ <s> WEST PALM BEACH, <h>Fla. _ Hurricane Floyd got stronger </h> and headed toward the Bahamas Saturday, packing 110 mph winds and leaving weather pundits wondering whether it will hit South Florida this week. </s>
164
+ <s> WASHINGTON, September 10 (Xinhua) -- Tropical storm Floyd strengthened Friday to become the fourth Atlantic hurricane this year, moving through the north Atlantic <h>on a path </h> that <h>will take it north of the Caribbean islands and toward the eastern United States. </h> </s>
165
+ <s> NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- Hurricane Floyd strengthened to a very dangerous Category 4 storm today with 155 mph wind, surprising forecasters and charging toward the Bahamas on <h>a path </h> that also <h>threatened the Florida coast. </h> </s>
166
+ <s> MIAMI _ A hurricane that meteorologists said was four times the size of the infamous Andrew and potentially even <h>more destructive pounded toward Florida Monday </h> , forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and leaving countless residents to hope that the massive storm would somehow miss their cities. </s>
167
+ <s> WASHINGTON _ This could be the storm FEMA Director James Lee Witt has been dreading since taking office six years ago: <h>a catastrophic hurricane </h> that <h>hugs the coastline from Florida </h> to the Carolinas, causing massive damage along a swath hundreds of miles long. </s>
168
+ <s> <h>WASHINGTON </h> , September 10 (Xinhua) -- <h>Tropical storm Floyd strengthened Friday to become the fourth Atlantic hurricane this year </h> , moving through the north Atlantic on a path that will take it north of the Caribbean islands and toward the eastern United States. </s>
169
+ <s> WEST PALM BEACH, <h>Fla. _ Hurricane Floyd </h> got stronger and <h>headed toward the Bahamas Saturday, packing 110 mph winds and leaving weather </h> pundits wondering whether it will hit South Florida this week. </s>
170
+ <s> <h>MIAMI (AP) -- As Hurricane Floyd neared the strength of a Category 5 storm today </h> and headed west, thousands of coastal residents were ordered to evacuate and NASA began moving workers out of the low-lying Kennedy Space Center. </s>
DUC/sent_window_0_clusters/val.target ADDED
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
+ Two students wounded dozens before killing themselves.
2
+ students were to finish the school year at nearby Chatfield High.
3
+ In Littleton Colorado on Tuesday morning Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their school with guns and pipe bombs.
4
+ Classes were scheduled to resume at a neighboring school
5
+ Two students killed 12 students and one teacher
6
+ Investigators believed the gunmen had help from others.
7
+ In Littleton Colorado on Tuesday morning Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their school with guns and pipe bombs.
8
+ dead and dozens injured.
9
+ In the worst school killing in U.S. history two students at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado entered their school on Tuesday
10
+ Twelve students, one teacher, and the two perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were killed.
11
+ Four New York City police officers are charged with second degree murder of 22-year-old immigrant street vendor from Guinea
12
+ On 4 February 1999 four white NYPD officers, McMellon, Carroll, Boss, and Murphy fired 41 shots at suspected African immigrant criminal Amadou Diallo.
13
+ The four officers, Kenneth Boss, Jean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded not guilty maintaining that they thought Diallo was armed.
14
+ The four officers, Kenneth Boss, Jean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy pleaded not guilty maintaining that they thought Diallo was armed.
15
+ unarmed African immigrant struck by 19 of 41 rounds in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building.
16
+ unarmed African immigrant struck by 19 of 41 rounds in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building.
17
+ the officers intended to take Diallo's life.
18
+ they fired 41 shots of which 19 hit the unarmed victim.
19
+ unarmed African immigrant struck by 19 of 41 rounds in the vestibule of his Bronx apartment building.
20
+ Edward McMellon, Sean Carroll, Kenneth Boss and Richard Murphy were each charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of reckless endangerment.
21
+ China is creating and expanding wildlife reserves and protection zones, planting forest areas with arrow bamboo, increasing financial support
22
+ Some 1600 live in the wild with less than 200 in captivity.
23
+ The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species with about 1500 living in the wild in China.
24
+ The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years.
25
+ Under state protection since 1962 they continue to be threatened by construction, mining, logging, poaching, and recent food shortages.
26
+ China is creating and expanding wildlife reserves and protection zones, planting forest areas with arrow bamboo, increasing financial support
27
+ The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years.
28
+ The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years.
29
+ The panda's preferred diet, arrow bamboo, flowers at the end of its life dies with replacement growth taking ten years.
30
+ Some 1600 live in the wild with less than 200 in captivity.
31
+ totally destroying three villages and almost
32
+ The tidal wave was caused by an undersea earthquake measuring about 7.0 on the Richter scale some 12 miles off the coast.
33
+ On a Friday night in mid-July 1998 a 23-foot tsunami engulfed a heavily populated area near Aitape on Papua New Guinea's remote northwest coast.
34
+ Seven villages were completely destroyed including Nimas, Warapu, and Arop.
35
+ Among the area's approximate population of ten thousand 599 are dead and 6000 homeless from beach abodes
36
+ The tidal wave was caused by an undersea earthquake measuring about 7.0 on the Richter scale some 12 miles off the coast.
37
+ During the night of July 17 a 23-foot tsunami hit the north coast of Papua New Guinea
38
+ The death toll was 599
39
+ three almost completely destroying another.
40
+ The death toll, mostly children and old people is expected to rise to more than 1000
41
+ The National Institute on Aging is studying a gene which when mutated causes Parkinson's.
42
+ The National Institute on Aging is studying a gene which when mutated causes Parkinson's.
43
+ Parkinson's, usually not inherited, is associated with Lewy bodies in the brain, the protein alpha-synuclein, mutations of chromosome 12 genes, and dopamine loss.
44
+ cells produce the neuro-transmitter dopamine
45
+ University of Pittsburgh researchers are studying exercise as a Parkinson's preventer, findings in rats
46
+ Parkinson's is a degenerative brain disease.
47
+ Parkinson's, usually not inherited, is associated with Lewy bodies in the brain, the protein alpha-synuclein, mutations of chromosome 12 genes, and dopamine loss.
48
+ a degenerative brain disease characterized by tremors, stiffness and difficulty walking.
49
+ isolated a gene whose mutations have been linked to the disease.
50
+ a degenerative brain disease characterized by tremors, stiffness and difficulty walking.
51
+ an arthritis drug used by 2 million people
52
+ On Sept 30 Merck voluntarily recalled the pain killer Vioxx, used by almost 2 million
53
+ determination that use past 18 months increased the risk of heart attack or strokes
54
+ recent scientific study results indicate that long-term use significantly increases patients' risk of heart attack and stroke over those taking older NSAID drugs.
55
+ On September 30 Merck & Co. voluntarily withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx because recent scientific study results indicate that long
56
+ Critics complained that TV advertising caused arthritics to desire the drug
57
+ Concerns arose over Pfizer's Celebrex and Bextra, also Cox-2 inhibitors.
58
+ Vioxx was safer for digestive tracts, important for arthritis patients.
59
+ OTC drugs worked equally well.
60
+ On September 30 Merck & Co. voluntarily withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx because recent scientific study results indicate that long
61
+ where there has been 10 confirmed cases with 4 deaths
62
+ The H5N1 strain of Influenza A flu has resurfaced this time in Hong
63
+ The Hong Kong government is coordinating interdepartmental efforts to prevent and control the spread of this "bird flu
64
+ influenza suspected to be transferred from birds to humans.
65
+ influenza suspected to be transferred from birds to humans.
66
+ but no evidence of H5N1 was found in the primary source of Hong Kong's chicken
67
+ A mysterious, deadly influenza strain H5N1, has appeared in Hong Kong with nine confirmed and ten suspected cases.
68
+ where there has been 10 confirmed cases with 4 deaths
69
+ a deadly influenza previously found only in birds
70
+ The H5N1 strain of Influenza A commonly termed bird flu
71
+ Fishermen, scientists, academics, and government are working together
72
+ the industries surrounding collapsed because the Bay has been over harvested and is heavily polluted from sewage, animal manure, and fertilizers from farms.
73
+ suits being lodged against the EPA for dragging its heels.
74
+ Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania recognized that the Bay's environmental decline severely affected their economies and in 2000 agreed to actions to save the bay within 10 years
75
+ Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania recognized that the Bay's environmental decline severely affected their economies and in 2000 agreed to actions to save the bay within 10 years
76
+ Scientists are exploring the possibility of introducing disease-resistant nonnative Chinese oysters to the bay.
77
+ Fishermen, scientists, academics, and government are working together
78
+ Life in the Chesapeake Bay is threatened by over-harvesting, pollution, parasites, and the introduction of non-native species.
79
+ Life in the Chesapeake Bay is threatened by over-harvesting, pollution, parasites, and the introduction of non-native species.
80
+ Fishermen, scientists, academics, and government are working together
81
+ By January 9, 1999 the police were trying to identify a stuffed bear.
82
+ parents John and Patsy Ramsey are under suspicion.
83
+ They deny any involvement and claim police are biased against them.
84
+ Two special prosecutors began to present the case to a 12-member grand jury on September 15.
85
+ The Boulder, Colorado, District Attorney questioned them in June 1998.
86
+ Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey strangled on Dec. 26, 1996 in her home
87
+ Six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten
88
+ No one has been charged in the case although both Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney, and Mark Beckner
89
+ both Alex Hunter, Boulder's district attorney, and Mark Beckner chief, have said that JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, fall under "the umbrella of suspicion
90
+ special prosecutors to counteract claims of his bias towards the Ramseys.
91
+ A human form of the disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease causes personality change, loss of body functions, brain deterioration and death.
92
+ Mad cow with isolated cases found in North America.
93
+ Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy eats holes in the brains of cattle.
94
+ Mad cow spread through Europe and Asia
95
+ Widespread testing and destruction of cattle and bans on beef imports have been imposed in countries around the world including, Britain, U.S., Canada, EU, Ireland, Japan and Taiwan.
96
+ Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease believed to come from eating beef
97
+ Mad cow with isolated cases found in North America.
98
+ Widespread testing and destruction of cattle and bans on beef imports have been imposed in countries around the world including, Britain, U.S., Canada, EU, Ireland, Japan and Taiwan.
99
+ In an effort many countries have placed a ban on the import of beef
100
+ Widespread testing and destruction of cattle and bans on beef imports have been imposed in countries around the world including, Britain, U.S., Canada, EU, Ireland, Japan and Taiwan.
101
+ Anorexics and bulimics to be in denial.
102
+ Another category binge eating
103
+ An epilepsy medication topiramate, may help curb the urge to overeat.
104
+ Anorexics starve themselves
105
+ binge eating disorder, and variations.
106
+ Causes include depression, stress from life events, and a need
107
+ Professional consultation and hospitalization programs may help.
108
+ Historically affecting younger females and fewer males
109
+ a psychological disorder the sufferer starves his or her body
110
+ An epilepsy medication topiramate, may help curb the urge to overeat.
111
+ On Sunday, August 13 Cyprus's Helios Airways Flight 522 slammed into a Greek hillside near Grammatikos
112
+ The probable cause was a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure
113
+ Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca killing all 121 onboard.
114
+ Around 12:20 Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca crashed near the Greek town of Grammatikos
115
+ Firefighters, rescue workers, and military helicopters sped to the scene.
116
+ It the oxygen system caused a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure.
117
+ Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca killing all 121 onboard.
118
+ Helios Airways Flight 522, bound for Athens from Larnaca killing all 121 onboard.
119
+ On Sunday, August 13 Cyprus's Helios Airways Flight 522 slammed into a Greek hillside near Grammatikos
120
+ Helios Airways Flight 522 crashed near Athens shortly past noon on 14 August 2005
121
+ Solutions include shredding mail, guarding personal information, and checking credit reports annually.
122
+ Solutions include shredding mail, guarding personal information, and checking credit reports annually.
123
+ In October 1998 the President signed into law
124
+ Identity theft assuming another person's identity
125
+ Identity theft assuming another person's identity
126
+ Identity theft assuming another person's identity
127
+ In October the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998 making IT a felony
128
+ Identity theft assuming another person's identity
129
+ Solutions guarding personal information
130
+ Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in America.
131
+ since people are overweight have increased tendencies toward cardiovascular and cerebral disease, diabetes and kidney and liver disease.
132
+ Causes are inactivity, poor diets, repeated pregnancies (Arab women), extra meals (Arab men), spoiling 'only' children (Chinese youth), fear, and anxiety.
133
+ The incidence in Britain is 16% of women and 13% of men
134
+ It can lead to diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, cerebral diseases, and psychological problems.
135
+ Obesity is a major health problem since people
136
+ Obesity arises from bad diet, a sedentary life style, anxiety, many pregnancies, sleeping too much, and increases in income.
137
+ The incidence in Britain is 16% of women and 13% of men
138
+ Obesity is on the increase in Asian countries with rates of over 10% - equal and greater than that of developed countries.
139
+ The incidence in Britain is 16% of women and 13% of men
140
+ Obesity rates can vary by age, gender, and education levels.
141
+ China is establishing and expanding nature reserves, closing intrusive small companies and sugar factories, moving farms,
142
+ Asia and South to protect tropical rain forest threatened
143
+ protecting gibbons
144
+ Significant efforts are underway
145
+ African countries are uniting to adopt protection policies.
146
+ African lumber producers included rainforest onservation as a Timber Conference topic.
147
+ satellites to monitor tropical forests.
148
+ closing intrusive small companies and sugar factories stopping illegal lumbering
149
+ Its first reserve was established in the 1950s.
150
+ In Africa dwindling rain forests threaten people's survival, timber interests and Tanzania
151
+ that the government had set up two teams to investigate Soeharto's corruption as well as his wealth.
152
+ he amassed a fortune worth billions of US dollars during his 32-year rule.
153
+ to mounting demands from students and opposition groups
154
+ that the government had set up two teams to investigate Soeharto's corruption as well as his wealth.
155
+ the Indonesian Attorney General (AG) and his office to determine whether his rumored wealth was gained illegally.
156
+ that evidence of Soeharto's ill-gotten wealth had been found including land, factories, and U.S. $2.3 million in personal savings accounts.
157
+ In November 1998 the investigation became part of a general decree calling for the removal of all traces of corruption, collusion, and nepotism amongst current and former officials, their families and cronies, and businesspersons.
158
+ Soeharto has hired several non-government lawyers because he is a private citizen now.
159
+ that the government had set up two teams to investigate Soeharto's corruption as well as his wealth.
160
+ The investigation to include present and former government officials and wealth stashed abroad.
161
+ Mandatory evacuations were ordered in Florida and Georgia
162
+ Warnings extended along the Atlantic Coast from South Florida to the barrier islands of South Georgia.
163
+ In early September, 1999 authorities worried about the growth of Hurricane Floyd as they tracked its movements from the Atlantic toward the U.S. coast.
164
+ tropical storm Floyd moving through the North Atlantic toward the eastern US.
165
+ Warnings extended along the Atlantic Coast from South Florida to the barrier islands of South Georgia.
166
+ the winds increase formed a liaison team
167
+ the first such storm to hit the coast.
168
+ On September 11 tropical storm Floyd became the fourth Atlantic hurricane of the year
169
+ winds progressing from 110 mph to 155 mph
170
+ Experts speculated Floyd could become a catastrophic category 5 Hurricane, with winds over 156 miles per hour