Newvel/entailment_dataset · Datasets at Hugging Face

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100	NO	IE	On 21 July, the Macdonough patrolled the waters off Guam to protect the assault craft from enemy submarines, continuing that role until departing for Hawaii on 10 August. After a day at Pearl Harbor, she departed for the Admiralty Islands.	The Macdonough left Hawaii on 10 August.
179	UNKNOWN	RC	The SEC's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.	Industries were defeated by the SEC.
289	YES	IR	Kieslowski later said that he abandoned documentary filmmaking due to two experiences: the censorship of Workers '71, which caused him to doubt whether truth could be told literally under an authoritarian regime, and an incident during the filming of Station (1981) in which some of his footage was nearly used as evidence in a criminal case. He decided that fiction not only allowed more artistic freedom, but could portray everyday life more truthfully.	Kieslowski is a director.
1150	NO	MT	The humane organization, Caritas, quoting its branch in Iraq, announced today, in Germany, that several Iraqi hospitals, especially Saddam Hospital, which is considered the biggest hospital in Iraq, were hit in the American-British bombing of the Iraqi capital.	Caritas announced that several Iraqi hospitals, (excluding Saddam Hospital,) were hit in the shelling of Baghdad.
178	YES	IE	A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.	Soyuz spacecraft were built by Russia.
316	UNKNOWN	SUM	Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.	Washington is pressing Iraq's leaders to end weeks of political deadlock and to form a new government as soon as possible, US officials say.
73	NO	IR	There are discussions in California and Arizona to allow illegal aliens to have driver's licenses.	California driver's licenses granted to illegal immigrants.
585	UNKNOWN	QA	Hodler claimed there were also irregularities in the campaigns organized by Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Games, Sydney for the Summer Olympics in 2000 and Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Games.	Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.
652	NO	QA	The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana, with 270,000 inhabitants.	Slovenia has 270,000 inhabitants.
1926	UNKNOWN	IE	Ahern, who was travelling to Tokyo for an EU-Japan summit yesterday, will consult with other EU leaders about the election of the EU commission president.	EU leaders take part in an EU-Japan summit.
330	UNKNOWN	SUM	Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held.	Two British tanks, sent to the police station where the soldiers are being held, were set alight in clashes.
232	NO	IE	Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.	J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle.
176	YES	IR	Some 55 percent of the German public are opposed to the euro, less than 150 days before its introduction on January 1, 2002, a poll by research group Wahlen showed.	The introduction of the euro has been opposed.
185	YES	IE	The activists had been imprisoned in relation to their protest in the main square of Krakow , Poland, against the presence of Vladimir Putin at the ceremonies for the 60th anniversary of the freeing of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.	Vladimir Putin participated in the ceremonies for the freeing of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.
59	NO	QA	About 10 million people live in the Paris metropolitan area, more than 15 percent of the country's total population. France's second largest city is Marseille (795,600) on the Mediterranean coast.	About 10 million people live in France.
513	YES	IR	These acoustic methods are now expected to be useful for the long-range remote sensing of schools of fish as well as for distant ocean bottom characterizations.	Ocean remote sensing is developed.
412	UNKNOWN	QA	Philadelphia is considered the birthplace of the United States of America, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written and signed in the city's Independence Hall.	The US Declaration of Independence is located in Philadelphia.
635	YES	SUM	Norwegian police released one of three people arrested when Edvard Munch's painting 'The Scream', stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo, was found.	Norwegian police arrested three people for the theft of Munch's painting, 'The Scream'.
55	YES	IE	Bosnia's leading Muslim daily Dnevni Avaz writes excitedly about "a sensational discovery" of "the first European pyramid" in the central town of Visoko, just north of Sarajevo.	Europe's first pyramid has been discovered near Sarajevo.
65	YES	IE	In 1927 Harnold Lamb wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned more and more to the writing of non-fiction, penning numerous biographies and history books until his death in 1962.	Harnold Lamb authored many biographies.
483	UNKNOWN	QA	Cyprus, divided or not, joins the EU on the 1st of May.	Cyprus was divided into two parts on May 1.
642	UNKNOWN	QA	Among the fascinating sites in the city are Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and one of America's principal symbols of freedom, The Liberty Bell, located in Congress Hall.	The US Declaration of Independence is located in America.
1927	UNKNOWN	IE	The organizers of the 15th International AIDS Conference, scheduled for next month in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday responded to press reports that a prominent hotel in Bangkok discriminated against HIV-positive visitors attending a different conference this month.	HIV-positive visitors take part in the 15th International AIDS Conference.
540	UNKNOWN	PP	Microsoft for instance, one of the world's largest software companies, lost more than an estimated 500 million dollars last year because of software theft.	Microsoft would spend 500 million dollars.
110	YES	IE	The drug dealers from Morro da Rocinha are in a war against drug dealers from the neighbouring Vidigal favela.	Morro da Rocinha is near the Vidigal favela.
409	UNKNOWN	IE	Vinicio Cerezo tacitly blamed president Alfredo Cristiani's administration for the crisis which prevails in the country as a result of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's (FMLN) offensive. Meanwhile, Morales Ehrlich blamed the extreme- right, death-squads of El Salvador for the assassination of six Jesuit priests at the Central American University.	Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is suspected of the assassination of six Jesuit priests.
469	YES	QA	Democrat Culbert L. Olson, elected governor of California in 1938, was a loyal supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal.	Democrat Culbert L. Olson was elected governor of California.
607	YES	IR	Carmen was only slightly put out to find that women are as poorly represented among Australian political scientists as they are in parliament (Leonie was asking, 'where are all the women?').	Women are poorly represented in parliament.
742	UNKNOWN	IR	Compuware claims that Allan Tortorice and Jim Hildner were among several former employees who revealed trade secrets after they moved to IBM.	Trade secrets were stolen.
586	YES	QA	The stupendous power of the Tevatron made possible the 1995 discovery of the top quark - the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.	The top quark is the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.
1158	YES	MT	An official of the International Special Commission in charge of disarming Iraqi weapons (UNSCOM) announced yesterday, Saturday, that the Commission will keep its inspectors in Iraq despite Baghdad's decision to stop its cooperation with them.	UNSCOM is to stay in Iraq.
80	UNKNOWN	IR	The Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) has given license approval to Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, permitting the firm to expand flight testing of SpaceShipOne -- a privately-financed rocket plane to carry passengers to suborbital altitude.	Private spaceship launches.
88	UNKNOWN	IE	Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.	Jyestadeva invented calculus.
1434	YES	PP	The report catalogues 10 missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI to uncover pieces of the September 11 plot.	Ten missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI are uncovered in the report.
476	YES	SUM	Clonaid scientist, Brigitte Boisselier, said the first human clone - a girl nicknamed Eve - was born on Thursday to an American mother.	Brigitte Boisselier announced that a cloned baby had been born.
580	UNKNOWN	IE	"The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but it seems to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands," Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village in the Middle Andaman Island told Reuters by phone.	Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village is part of the Middle Andaman Island.
602	UNKNOWN	QA	Historians estimate that 800,000 Chechens were stuffed into rail cars and deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and 240,000 of them died en route.	Stalin deported 800,000 Chechens.
1951	YES	IE	Crude oil prices shot to new highs yesterday as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company	Crude oil prices rise.
89	YES	IE	Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.	Jyestadeva is the author of the Yuktibhasa.
98	UNKNOWN	IR	Sharon warns Arafat could be targeted for assassination.	prime minister targeted for assassination
13	YES	IE	Sunday's earthquake was felt in the southern Indian city of Madras on the mainland, as well as other parts of south India. The Naval meteorological office in Port Blair said it was the second biggest aftershock after the Dec. 26 earthquake.	The city of Madras is located in Southern India.
338	YES	IE	For Bechtolsheim, who designed the prototype for the first Sun workstation while he was a Birkenstock-shod Stanford University graduate student in 1982, the new line of computers, code named Galaxy, is a return to the company's roots.	The Sun workstation was created by Bechtlsheim.
716	YES	IR	The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.	The cost of paper is rising.
602	NO	SUM	Stolen Warhol works recovered: Amsterdam police said Wednesday that they have recovered stolen lithographs by the late U.S. pop artist Andy Warhol worth more than $1 million. Dali's paintings are still missing.	Millions of dollars of art were recovered, including works by Dali.
80	YES	QA	About 33.5 million people live in this massive conurbation. I would guess that 95% of the 5,000 officially foreign-capital firms in Japan are based in Tokyo.	About 33.5 miilion people live in Tokyo.
2100	UNKNOWN	MT	Greenspan's stance has underpinned predictions the Fed will raise rates steadily this year.	The position of Greenspan has propped up the predictions that the Fed will gradually elevate the east interest rates year.
771	YES	SUM	In 2003, Yunus brought the microcredit revolution to the streets of Bangladesh to support more than 50,000 beggars, whom the Grameen Bank respectfully calls Struggling Members.	Yunus supported more than 50,000 Struggling Members.
284	YES	QA	While preliminary work goes on at the Geneva headquarters of the WTO, with members providing input, key decisions are taken at the ministerial meetings.	The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.
783	YES	CD	Sharon sent dismissal letters to Benny Elon and Avigdor Lieberman, who oppose his withdrawal plan, on Friday.	On Friday,Sharon fired Benny Elon and Avigdor Lieberman.
942	NO	IE	The U.S. handed power on June 30 to Iraq's interim government chosen by the United Nations and Paul Bremer, former governor of Iraq.	The United Nations officialy transferred power to Iraq.
462	YES	IR	The development of agriculture by early humans, roughly 10,000 years ago, was also harmful to many natural ecosystems as they were systematically destroyed and replaced with artificial versions.	Humans existed 10,000 years ago.
475	YES	QA	Today's best estimate of giant panda numbers in the wild is about 1,100 individuals living in up to 32 separate populations mostly in China's Sichuan Province, but also in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.	There are 1,100 pandas in the wild, in China.
690	YES	SUM	Waste in the ponds produced by leaching gold from ore is a source of potential environmental dangers.	Mine waste-water poses an environmental hazard.
635	UNKNOWN	QA	The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.	Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow.
2119	UNKNOWN	CD	Pakistani officials announced that two South African men in their custody had confessed to planning attacks at popular tourist spots in their home country.	Two South Africans were arrested in Pakistan in the past week after a shoot-out at a house between al-Qaeda operatives and security forces.
556	YES	QA	The Titanic sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.	The Titanic sank in 1912.
437	YES	QA	Although he won with the lowest majority ever tallied by the ruling party , 48.7% of the votes , his ballots almost doubled those of outsider Diego Fernandez de Cevallos , the rightist runner-up . And insiders are now favored to win other Latin American elections in the coming months : In Brazil , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , a former Senate leader and Cabinet minister , is expected to finish ahead of outsider Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva , a leftist former labor leader , in the first round of president.	Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.
80	YES	IE	The original owner, Henry Borski, opened his tavern in 1945. He later passed it on to his son Jake Borski, then it was owned by Phylis Roberts for approximately 23 years after that.	Henry Borski and Jake Borski are relatives.
782	YES	SUM	A U.S. soldier accused of participating in the rape of an Iraqi girl and then killing her and her family was sentenced to 90 years in jail on Thursday, media reports said.	A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 90 years in jail.
707	UNKNOWN	CD	This became Aquincum when the Romans established a military camp and civilian town there at the end of the 1st century AD.	One of the first organized settlements on the site, though, was the Roman fortress of Aquincum.
758	YES	SUM	The drug, along with aspirin and ibuprofen, is one of the most widely used pain relievers available without a doctor's note.	Aspirin is one of the most widely used pain relievers available without a doctor's note.
238	YES	RC	Following the assassination attempt in 1981, Reagan said he felt God had spared him for a purpose, and he intended to devote the rest of his life in dedication to his God and to that purpose.	Regan was almost assassinated in 1981.
753	YES	SUM	"They brought us 7-Up, bottled water, ice and a diet of rice, though you didn't feel like eating," said Jim Lankes, 48, of Phoenix.	Jim Lankes was given bottles of waters, ice and rice.
696	UNKNOWN	SUM	The flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably well the steep rise in spot and futures prices for crude oil and natural gas that we have experienced over the past two years, said Mr. Greenspan.	Rising prices have helped make many people feel wealthier and thus more inclined to spend.
530	YES	QA	U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has expressed her anger after a meeting with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir , during which her aides and staff were mistreated by Sudanese security agents.	Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.
572	YES	QA	Out of the seven expeditions who were permitted to climb the 8586-meter high Mt. Kanchenjunga, only one climber from the United States succeeded.	Kanchenjunga is 8586 meters high.
216	YES	IR	Anti-nuclear protesters on Wednesday delayed the progress of a shipment of radioactive waste toward a dump in northern Germany. The train stopped for the fourth time since crossing into Germany as it neared the northern town of Lueneburg.	Nuclear waste transport delayed in Germany.
350	YES	MT	The American Defense Department reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircraft carriers and B52 bombers.	The Pentagon reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircrafts.
247	UNKNOWN	IE	Despite the turmoil in Israeli society, there is little doubt that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will pull the nearly 9,000 Israeli settlers out of Gaza, now a closed military zone.	9,000 settlers are employed by Israel.
765	YES	SUM	The Nobel shines a spotlight on a form of "social capitalism" that has gained currency in recent years, propelled by high-profile supporters like former President Bill Clinton, rock star Bono and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.	President Bill Clinton is a supporter of "social capitalism".
637	YES	QA	In 1969, more than 500 million people around the world sat in front of television sets, watching grainy images of two men in white bulky spacesuits planting a U.S. flag on the lunar landscape with its black horizon.	The Apollo astronauts waved the American flag on the moon in 1969.
1665	YES	IE	He graduated from high school from Benton, Tenn. and from Tennessee Tech. in Cookville, and holds a doctorate in physics from Virginia Tech.	Tennessee Tech is an organisation based in Cookville.
537	YES	QA	The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.	The Pharos Lighthouse was located in Alexandria.
472	YES	QA	A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.	A female rabbit is called a doe.
157	NO	IE	In 1955, the Aurora Borealis, a coating applied to crystal stones to produce a "rainbow of colors" effect was introduced.	The Aurora Borealis was discovered in 1995.
332	YES	IE	Kevin Whitaker, who heads the Cuban affairs office at the Department of State, spoke with Lazo on two occasions about the effort to give his sons visas.	Kevin Whitaker is a manager of the Department of State.
692	NO	IE	Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.	Ahmadinejab threatens Iran nuclear activity.
139	UNKNOWN	IE	A former FBI special agent, Rowley, and Becky Lourey, whose son was killed in Iraq, will leave for Texas on Thursday and camp at the site for a few days.	Rowley and Lourey are relatives.
125	YES	IE	Councilman Pierce had built the home for his daughter on E. 28th Street off Rossville Blvd, as he lives nearby.	Pierce lives near Rossville Blvd.
574	YES	QA	Doctors who treated Ayrton Senna after he crashed during the San Marino Grand Prix have denied allegations that the Brazilian driver died at the Imola track.	Ayrton Senna had the accident that caused his death at the San Marino Grand Prix.
2107	UNKNOWN	MT	U.S. crude settled $1.32 lower at $42.83 a barrel.	Crude the light American lowered to the closing 1.32 dollars, to 42.83 dollars the barrel.
360	UNKNOWN	IR	The longest mission which the Russian Salyuts supported was 63 days. The second generation Salyuts would fly missions much longer and would need to be resupplied from time to time.	Russians hold record for longest stay in space.
736	YES	IE	The hullabaloo is over a glacial period dating to about 750 million to 600 million years ago.	A glacial period occurred about 750 million to 600 million years ago.
406	YES	QA	The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. It has also been used for other languages in the past. Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language which is written with it.	Cyrillic is an alphabet used for certain Slavic languages, such as Russian.
283	UNKNOWN	IR	It is estimated that the disaster resulting from the deliberate crash of a Jumbo-Jet on a nuclear power station would be a multiple of the Chernobyl accident in the worst case by a factor of 60.	The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.
591	YES	QA	A jury is slated to decide for the first time whether Jack Kevorkian, famed as "Dr. Death," has violated Michigan's assisted-suicide ban, while the state continues to grapple with the issue of what to allow when the ill want to end their pain by ending their lives.	Jack Kevorkian is the real name of "Dr. Death".
281	UNKNOWN	IR	In this respect, the reforms required across Europe are similar: stronger incentives within pension systems to delay retirement, rules which facilitate gradual retirement, incentives for workers to save for their retirement, and public information measures to improve awareness of the options available.	National pension systems currently adopted in Europe are in difficulties.
468	UNKNOWN	QA	President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable. In fact, she should have been named the Barbara Bush."	The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
306	YES	IR	Oh Eun-sun was the first Korean woman to climb Mt. Everest solo. For all the hardships she must have endured, she merely says that she was lucky. She now reminisces about the days she spent in that mountain.	A woman succeeds in climbing Everest solo.
729	UNKNOWN	SUM	Mice given a substance found in red wine lived longer despite a fatty diet, a study shows.	Mice fed with red wine lived longer despite a fatty diet.
24	YES	IR	At the Amman Summit of Arab Women in Jordan last month, Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa said womens' advancement in the Arab world will be hobbled as long as they are so poorly represented in parliaments.	Women are poorly represented in parliament.
1148	UNKNOWN	MT	The American television network "A.B.C." quoted undisclosed sources at the American Defense Department today, Thursday, saying that the intense bombing operations on Iraq may cease by the end of this week.	The television network "CNN", quoting sources in the American Ministry of Defence, revealed that the bombing of Iraq might end this week.
386	YES	IR	Three leading Japanese banks have announced an alliance forming the world's largest financial group. Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of 2002.	Merger of Japanese Banks creates the world's biggest bank.
38	YES	QA	John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, approved this museum as the world's first museum to honor John Lennon.	Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
197	YES	IE	Zhao was removed from his position as secretary general of the Communist Party of China and placed under house arrest in 1989 after denouncing the use of force against student protesters in Tiananmen Square.	Zhao was a member of the Communist Party.
170	YES	SUM	Two Indian diplomats met the Indian prisoner facing death in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, on Tuesday at Kot Lakhpat jail in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.	Indian diplomats met an Indian prisoner, on death row, on Tuesday.
68	YES	IR	A United Nations vehicle was attacked in the Serbian province of Kosovo and at least one civilian policeman was killed, the United Nations said.	A civilian policeman was killed.
135	YES	IR	The State of California Department of Occupational Health and Safety released its report on the September 5 fatal accident on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction.	Disneyland has accident
538	YES	QA	The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.	The Pharos Lighthouse was built around 280 BC.
823	YES	CD	The body of Satomi Mitarai was found by a teacher after her attacker returned to class in bloody clothes.	Mitarai's body was found by a teacher after her killer returned to their classroom covered in blood.

100

NO

IE

On 21 July, the Macdonough patrolled the waters off Guam to protect the assault craft from enemy submarines, continuing that role until departing for Hawaii on 10 August. After a day at Pearl Harbor, she departed for the Admiralty Islands.

The Macdonough left Hawaii on 10 August.

179

UNKNOWN

RC

The SEC's new rule to beef up the independence of mutual fund boards represents an industry defeat.

Industries were defeated by the SEC.

289

YES

IR

Kieslowski later said that he abandoned documentary filmmaking due to two experiences: the censorship of Workers '71, which caused him to doubt whether truth could be told literally under an authoritarian regime, and an incident during the filming of Station (1981) in which some of his footage was nearly used as evidence in a criminal case. He decided that fiction not only allowed more artistic freedom, but could portray everyday life more truthfully.

Kieslowski is a director.

1150

NO

MT

The humane organization, Caritas, quoting its branch in Iraq, announced today, in Germany, that several Iraqi hospitals, especially Saddam Hospital, which is considered the biggest hospital in Iraq, were hit in the American-British bombing of the Iraqi capital.

Caritas announced that several Iraqi hospitals, (excluding Saddam Hospital,) were hit in the shelling of Baghdad.

178

YES

IE

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked with the International Space Station, after a two-day flight from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Soyuz spacecraft were built by Russia.

316

UNKNOWN

SUM

Shiite and Kurdish political leaders continued talks, on Monday, on forming a new government, saying they expected a full cabinet to be announced within a day or two.

Washington is pressing Iraq's leaders to end weeks of political deadlock and to form a new government as soon as possible, US officials say.

73

NO

IR

There are discussions in California and Arizona to allow illegal aliens to have driver's licenses.

California driver's licenses granted to illegal immigrants.

585

UNKNOWN

QA

Hodler claimed there were also irregularities in the campaigns organized by Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Games, Sydney for the Summer Olympics in 2000 and Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Games.

Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.

652

NO

QA

The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana, with 270,000 inhabitants.

Slovenia has 270,000 inhabitants.

1926

UNKNOWN

IE

Ahern, who was travelling to Tokyo for an EU-Japan summit yesterday, will consult with other EU leaders about the election of the EU commission president.

EU leaders take part in an EU-Japan summit.

330

UNKNOWN

SUM

Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held.

Two British tanks, sent to the police station where the soldiers are being held, were set alight in clashes.

232

NO

IE

Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.

J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle.

176

YES

IR

Some 55 percent of the German public are opposed to the euro, less than 150 days before its introduction on January 1, 2002, a poll by research group Wahlen showed.

The introduction of the euro has been opposed.

185

YES

IE

The activists had been imprisoned in relation to their protest in the main square of Krakow , Poland, against the presence of Vladimir Putin at the ceremonies for the 60th anniversary of the freeing of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Vladimir Putin participated in the ceremonies for the freeing of the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.

59

NO

QA

About 10 million people live in the Paris metropolitan area, more than 15 percent of the country's total population. France's second largest city is Marseille (795,600) on the Mediterranean coast.

About 10 million people live in France.

513

YES

IR

These acoustic methods are now expected to be useful for the long-range remote sensing of schools of fish as well as for distant ocean bottom characterizations.

Ocean remote sensing is developed.

412

UNKNOWN

QA

Philadelphia is considered the birthplace of the United States of America, where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written and signed in the city's Independence Hall.

The US Declaration of Independence is located in Philadelphia.

635

YES

SUM

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

Norwegian police arrested three people for the theft of Munch's painting, 'The Scream'.

55

YES

IE

Bosnia's leading Muslim daily Dnevni Avaz writes excitedly about "a sensational discovery" of "the first European pyramid" in the central town of Visoko, just north of Sarajevo.

Europe's first pyramid has been discovered near Sarajevo.

65

YES

IE

In 1927 Harnold Lamb wrote a biography of Genghis Khan, and following on its success turned more and more to the writing of non-fiction, penning numerous biographies and history books until his death in 1962.

Harnold Lamb authored many biographies.

483

UNKNOWN

QA

Cyprus, divided or not, joins the EU on the 1st of May.

Cyprus was divided into two parts on May 1.

642

UNKNOWN

QA

Among the fascinating sites in the city are Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and one of America's principal symbols of freedom, The Liberty Bell, located in Congress Hall.

The US Declaration of Independence is located in America.

1927

UNKNOWN

IE

The organizers of the 15th International AIDS Conference, scheduled for next month in Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday responded to press reports that a prominent hotel in Bangkok discriminated against HIV-positive visitors attending a different conference this month.

HIV-positive visitors take part in the 15th International AIDS Conference.

540

UNKNOWN

PP

Microsoft for instance, one of the world's largest software companies, lost more than an estimated 500 million dollars last year because of software theft.

Microsoft would spend 500 million dollars.

110

YES

IE

The drug dealers from Morro da Rocinha are in a war against drug dealers from the neighbouring Vidigal favela.

Morro da Rocinha is near the Vidigal favela.

409

UNKNOWN

IE

Vinicio Cerezo tacitly blamed president Alfredo Cristiani's administration for the crisis which prevails in the country as a result of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's (FMLN) offensive. Meanwhile, Morales Ehrlich blamed the extreme- right, death-squads of El Salvador for the assassination of six Jesuit priests at the Central American University.

Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is suspected of the assassination of six Jesuit priests.

469

YES

QA

Democrat Culbert L. Olson, elected governor of California in 1938, was a loyal supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal.

Democrat Culbert L. Olson was elected governor of California.

607

YES

IR

Carmen was only slightly put out to find that women are as poorly represented among Australian political scientists as they are in parliament (Leonie was asking, 'where are all the women?').

Women are poorly represented in parliament.

742

UNKNOWN

IR

Compuware claims that Allan Tortorice and Jim Hildner were among several former employees who revealed trade secrets after they moved to IBM.

Trade secrets were stolen.

586

YES

QA

The stupendous power of the Tevatron made possible the 1995 discovery of the top quark - the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.

The top quark is the last of six flavors of quarks predicted by the standard model theory of particle physics.

1158

YES

MT

An official of the International Special Commission in charge of disarming Iraqi weapons (UNSCOM) announced yesterday, Saturday, that the Commission will keep its inspectors in Iraq despite Baghdad's decision to stop its cooperation with them.

UNSCOM is to stay in Iraq.

80

UNKNOWN

IR

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

Private spaceship launches.

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IE

Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.

Jyestadeva invented calculus.

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YES

PP

The report catalogues 10 missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI to uncover pieces of the September 11 plot.

Ten missed opportunities within the CIA and FBI are uncovered in the report.

476

YES

SUM

Clonaid scientist, Brigitte Boisselier, said the first human clone - a girl nicknamed Eve - was born on Thursday to an American mother.

Brigitte Boisselier announced that a cloned baby had been born.

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"The aftershocks were less in the past two months, but it seems to be starting again. We are really worried about the fate of these islands," Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village in the Middle Andaman Island told Reuters by phone.

Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village is part of the Middle Andaman Island.

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QA

Historians estimate that 800,000 Chechens were stuffed into rail cars and deported to Kazakhstan and Siberia, and 240,000 of them died en route.

Stalin deported 800,000 Chechens.

1951

YES

IE

Crude oil prices shot to new highs yesterday as markets reacted to a threat by Russian authorities to shut down most of the production from that country's largest oil company

Crude oil prices rise.

89

YES

IE

Jyestadeva (1500-1610), was an astronomer of the Kerala school founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama and a student of Damodara. He is most known for writing the first calculus text, the Yuktibhasa . He also authored the Drk-karana on astronomical observations.

Jyestadeva is the author of the Yuktibhasa.

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IR

Sharon warns Arafat could be targeted for assassination.

prime minister targeted for assassination

13

YES

IE

Sunday's earthquake was felt in the southern Indian city of Madras on the mainland, as well as other parts of south India. The Naval meteorological office in Port Blair said it was the second biggest aftershock after the Dec. 26 earthquake.

The city of Madras is located in Southern India.

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YES

IE

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

The Sun workstation was created by Bechtlsheim.

716

YES

IR

The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.

The cost of paper is rising.

602

NO

SUM

Stolen Warhol works recovered: Amsterdam police said Wednesday that they have recovered stolen lithographs by the late U.S. pop artist Andy Warhol worth more than $1 million. Dali's paintings are still missing.

Millions of dollars of art were recovered, including works by Dali.

80

YES

QA

About 33.5 million people live in this massive conurbation. I would guess that 95% of the 5,000 officially foreign-capital firms in Japan are based in Tokyo.

About 33.5 miilion people live in Tokyo.

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MT

Greenspan's stance has underpinned predictions the Fed will raise rates steadily this year.

The position of Greenspan has propped up the predictions that the Fed will gradually elevate the east interest rates year.

771

YES

SUM

In 2003, Yunus brought the microcredit revolution to the streets of Bangladesh to support more than 50,000 beggars, whom the Grameen Bank respectfully calls Struggling Members.

Yunus supported more than 50,000 Struggling Members.

284

YES

QA

While preliminary work goes on at the Geneva headquarters of the WTO, with members providing input, key decisions are taken at the ministerial meetings.

The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva.

783

YES

CD

Sharon sent dismissal letters to Benny Elon and Avigdor Lieberman, who oppose his withdrawal plan, on Friday.

On Friday,Sharon fired Benny Elon and Avigdor Lieberman.

942

NO

IE

The U.S. handed power on June 30 to Iraq's interim government chosen by the United Nations and Paul Bremer, former governor of Iraq.

The United Nations officialy transferred power to Iraq.

462

YES

IR

The development of agriculture by early humans, roughly 10,000 years ago, was also harmful to many natural ecosystems as they were systematically destroyed and replaced with artificial versions.

Humans existed 10,000 years ago.

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YES

QA

Today's best estimate of giant panda numbers in the wild is about 1,100 individuals living in up to 32 separate populations mostly in China's Sichuan Province, but also in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

There are 1,100 pandas in the wild, in China.

690

YES

SUM

Waste in the ponds produced by leaching gold from ore is a source of potential environmental dangers.

Mine waste-water poses an environmental hazard.

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QA

The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans.

Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow.

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CD

Pakistani officials announced that two South African men in their custody had confessed to planning attacks at popular tourist spots in their home country.

Two South Africans were arrested in Pakistan in the past week after a shoot-out at a house between al-Qaeda operatives and security forces.

556

YES

QA

The Titanic sank in 1912 after striking an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York.

The Titanic sank in 1912.

437

YES

QA

Although he won with the lowest majority ever tallied by the ruling party , 48.7% of the votes , his ballots almost doubled those of outsider Diego Fernandez de Cevallos , the rightist runner-up . And insiders are now favored to win other Latin American elections in the coming months : In Brazil , Fernando Henrique Cardoso , a former Senate leader and Cabinet minister , is expected to finish ahead of outsider Luis Inacio (Lula) da Silva , a leftist former labor leader , in the first round of president.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.

80

YES

IE

The original owner, Henry Borski, opened his tavern in 1945. He later passed it on to his son Jake Borski, then it was owned by Phylis Roberts for approximately 23 years after that.

Henry Borski and Jake Borski are relatives.

782

YES

SUM

A U.S. soldier accused of participating in the rape of an Iraqi girl and then killing her and her family was sentenced to 90 years in jail on Thursday, media reports said.

A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 90 years in jail.

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CD

This became Aquincum when the Romans established a military camp and civilian town there at the end of the 1st century AD.

One of the first organized settlements on the site, though, was the Roman fortress of Aquincum.

758

YES

SUM

The drug, along with aspirin and ibuprofen, is one of the most widely used pain relievers available without a doctor's note.

Aspirin is one of the most widely used pain relievers available without a doctor's note.

238

YES

RC

Following the assassination attempt in 1981, Reagan said he felt God had spared him for a purpose, and he intended to devote the rest of his life in dedication to his God and to that purpose.

Regan was almost assassinated in 1981.

753

YES

SUM

"They brought us 7-Up, bottled water, ice and a diet of rice, though you didn't feel like eating," said Jim Lankes, 48, of Phoenix.

Jim Lankes was given bottles of waters, ice and rice.

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SUM

The flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably well the steep rise in spot and futures prices for crude oil and natural gas that we have experienced over the past two years, said Mr. Greenspan.

Rising prices have helped make many people feel wealthier and thus more inclined to spend.

530

YES

QA

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has expressed her anger after a meeting with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir , during which her aides and staff were mistreated by Sudanese security agents.

Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.

572

YES

QA

Out of the seven expeditions who were permitted to climb the 8586-meter high Mt. Kanchenjunga, only one climber from the United States succeeded.

Kanchenjunga is 8586 meters high.

216

YES

IR

Anti-nuclear protesters on Wednesday delayed the progress of a shipment of radioactive waste toward a dump in northern Germany. The train stopped for the fourth time since crossing into Germany as it neared the northern town of Lueneburg.

Nuclear waste transport delayed in Germany.

350

YES

MT

The American Defense Department reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircraft carriers and B52 bombers.

The Pentagon reported today, that the bombing runs against Iraq are being especially carried out via cruise missiles launched from American aircrafts.

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IE

Despite the turmoil in Israeli society, there is little doubt that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will pull the nearly 9,000 Israeli settlers out of Gaza, now a closed military zone.

9,000 settlers are employed by Israel.

765

YES

SUM

The Nobel shines a spotlight on a form of "social capitalism" that has gained currency in recent years, propelled by high-profile supporters like former President Bill Clinton, rock star Bono and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

President Bill Clinton is a supporter of "social capitalism".

637

YES

QA

In 1969, more than 500 million people around the world sat in front of television sets, watching grainy images of two men in white bulky spacesuits planting a U.S. flag on the lunar landscape with its black horizon.

The Apollo astronauts waved the American flag on the moon in 1969.

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YES

IE

He graduated from high school from Benton, Tenn. and from Tennessee Tech. in Cookville, and holds a doctorate in physics from Virginia Tech.

Tennessee Tech is an organisation based in Cookville.

537

YES

QA

The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.

The Pharos Lighthouse was located in Alexandria.

472

YES

QA

A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.

A female rabbit is called a doe.

157

NO

IE

In 1955, the Aurora Borealis, a coating applied to crystal stones to produce a "rainbow of colors" effect was introduced.

The Aurora Borealis was discovered in 1995.

332

YES

IE

Kevin Whitaker, who heads the Cuban affairs office at the Department of State, spoke with Lazo on two occasions about the effort to give his sons visas.

Kevin Whitaker is a manager of the Department of State.

692

NO

IE

Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with a TIME journalist, the first one-on-one session given to a Western print publication since his election as president of Iran earlier this year, Ahmadinejad attacked the "threat" to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.

Ahmadinejab threatens Iran nuclear activity.

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A former FBI special agent, Rowley, and Becky Lourey, whose son was killed in Iraq, will leave for Texas on Thursday and camp at the site for a few days.

Rowley and Lourey are relatives.

125

YES

IE

Councilman Pierce had built the home for his daughter on E. 28th Street off Rossville Blvd, as he lives nearby.

Pierce lives near Rossville Blvd.

574

YES

QA

Doctors who treated Ayrton Senna after he crashed during the San Marino Grand Prix have denied allegations that the Brazilian driver died at the Imola track.

Ayrton Senna had the accident that caused his death at the San Marino Grand Prix.

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MT

U.S. crude settled $1.32 lower at $42.83 a barrel.

Crude the light American lowered to the closing 1.32 dollars, to 42.83 dollars the barrel.

360

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IR

The longest mission which the Russian Salyuts supported was 63 days. The second generation Salyuts would fly missions much longer and would need to be resupplied from time to time.

Russians hold record for longest stay in space.

736

YES

IE

The hullabaloo is over a glacial period dating to about 750 million to 600 million years ago.

A glacial period occurred about 750 million to 600 million years ago.

406

YES

QA

The Cyrillic alphabet is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages; (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. It has also been used for other languages in the past. Not all letters in the Cyrillic alphabet are used in every language which is written with it.

Cyrillic is an alphabet used for certain Slavic languages, such as Russian.

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IR

It is estimated that the disaster resulting from the deliberate crash of a Jumbo-Jet on a nuclear power station would be a multiple of the Chernobyl accident in the worst case by a factor of 60.

The Chernobyl disaster had repercussions outside the ex-USSR.

591

YES

QA

A jury is slated to decide for the first time whether Jack Kevorkian, famed as "Dr. Death," has violated Michigan's assisted-suicide ban, while the state continues to grapple with the issue of what to allow when the ill want to end their pain by ending their lives.

Jack Kevorkian is the real name of "Dr. Death".

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IR

In this respect, the reforms required across Europe are similar: stronger incentives within pension systems to delay retirement, rules which facilitate gradual retirement, incentives for workers to save for their retirement, and public information measures to improve awareness of the options available.

National pension systems currently adopted in Europe are in difficulties.

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QA

President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable. In fact, she should have been named the Barbara Bush."

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.

306

YES

IR

Oh Eun-sun was the first Korean woman to climb Mt. Everest solo. For all the hardships she must have endured, she merely says that she was lucky. She now reminisces about the days she spent in that mountain.

A woman succeeds in climbing Everest solo.

729

UNKNOWN

SUM

Mice given a substance found in red wine lived longer despite a fatty diet, a study shows.

Mice fed with red wine lived longer despite a fatty diet.

24

YES

IR

At the Amman Summit of Arab Women in Jordan last month, Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa said womens' advancement in the Arab world will be hobbled as long as they are so poorly represented in parliaments.

Women are poorly represented in parliament.

1148

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MT

The American television network "A.B.C." quoted undisclosed sources at the American Defense Department today, Thursday, saying that the intense bombing operations on Iraq may cease by the end of this week.

The television network "CNN", quoting sources in the American Ministry of Defence, revealed that the bombing of Iraq might end this week.

386

YES

IR

Three leading Japanese banks have announced an alliance forming the world's largest financial group. Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of 2002.

Merger of Japanese Banks creates the world's biggest bank.

38

YES

QA

John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, approved this museum as the world's first museum to honor John Lennon.

Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.

197

YES

IE

Zhao was removed from his position as secretary general of the Communist Party of China and placed under house arrest in 1989 after denouncing the use of force against student protesters in Tiananmen Square.

Zhao was a member of the Communist Party.

170

YES

SUM

Two Indian diplomats met the Indian prisoner facing death in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, on Tuesday at Kot Lakhpat jail in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.

Indian diplomats met an Indian prisoner, on death row, on Tuesday.

68

YES

IR

A United Nations vehicle was attacked in the Serbian province of Kosovo and at least one civilian policeman was killed, the United Nations said.

A civilian policeman was killed.

135

YES

IR

The State of California Department of Occupational Health and Safety released its report on the September 5 fatal accident on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction.

Disneyland has accident

538

YES

QA

The Pharos, a monumental lighthouse built around 280 BC and standing 330 ft high, lit the entrance to Alexandria harbour for centuries, but archeologists have never been able to identify positively any remains.

The Pharos Lighthouse was built around 280 BC.

823

YES

CD

The body of Satomi Mitarai was found by a teacher after her attacker returned to class in bloody clothes.

Mitarai's body was found by a teacher after her killer returned to their classroom covered in blood.