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<pair id="2" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The Bank of Italy, the ultimate arbiter of Italian banking mergers, has been engulfed by scandal since police wire taps revealed Fazio and his wife advised a local banker in a bid for Bank Antonveneta against Dutch bank ABN AMRO.</t>
<h>A local banker bids for Bank Antonveneta.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="4" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.</t>
<h>Antonio Fazio is subordinate to Jean-Claude Trichet.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="6" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>&quot;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,&quot; Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village in the Middle Andaman Island told Reuters by phone.</t>
<h>Smriti Kana Saha of Ranjat village is part of the Middle Andaman Island.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="12" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were &quot;playing out of their socks&quot;, but admitted that they were &quot;racing against time&quot; to track down the bombers.</t>
<h>The officers belong to Sir Ian Blair's family.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="15" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>U.S. policy on drug trafficking is not consistent with the need to put an end and actively repress the consumption of drugs. The solution is not based on the destruction of a native plant, coca, in the continent, but on an active fight against the Colombian drug mafia, which has created a great money and crime empire in Colombia with powerful ramifications outside its borders.</t>
<h>A native plant is destroyed by the Colombian drug mafia.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="16" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Another presidential candidate, who we thought was the one involved, was Charles Brumskine, the standard bearer of the United Democratic Party who also has residency in the Northern Virginia area.</t>
<h>Charles Brumskine is a member of the United Democratic Party.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="27" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Thanks to the recent acquisition of J.D. Edwards, Oracle will soon be able to run JDE apps on its Fusion Middleware platform, too.</t>
<h>J.D.E. is the owner of Oracle.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="28" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>General Miguel Maza Marquez, chief of the Colombian Administrative Department Of Security (DAS), today confirmed foreign participation in the assassination of Luis Carlos Galan, senator and Liberal party presidential candidate, on 18 August in Bogota.</t>
<h>General Miguel Maza Marquez took part in the assassination of Luis Carlos Galan.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="29" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The seven refineries located in Lake Charles, La., and the Texas cities of Beaumont and Port Arthur, appear to be the ones hardest hit by the water and wind that accompanied Rita.</t>
<h>Rita caused damages to seven refineries located in Lake Charles, La. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="33" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>In that aircraft accident, four people were killed: the pilot, who was wearing civilian clothes, and three other people who were wearing military uniforms.</t>
<h>Four people were assassinated by the pilot.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="36" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>He is the professor of theater and drama at Loyola University and the director of Wilson's &quot;Two Trains Running,&quot; now onstage at Pegasus Players.</t>
<h>&quot;Two Trains Running&quot; was written by Wilson.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="39" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>San Salvador, Jan. 13, '90 (Acan-Efe) -The bodies of Hector Oqueli and Gilda Flores, who had been kidnapped yesterday, were found in Cuilapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, the relatives of one of the victims have reported.</t>
<h>Guatemala borders on El Salvador.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="40" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Craig Conway, fired as PeopleSoft's chief executive officer before the company was bought by Oracle, was in England last week.</t>
<h>Craig Conway works for Oracle.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="45" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Self-sufficiency has been turned into a formal public awareness campaign in San Francisco, by Mayor Gavin Newsom.</t>
<h>Gavin Newsom is a politician of San Francisco.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="50" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, will meet his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, in London today.</t>
<h>Jack Straw is a partner of Celso Amorim.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="55" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Valero Energy Corp., on Monday, said it found &quot;extensive&quot; additional damage at its 250,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery.</t>
<h>Valero Energy Corp. is the owner of Port Arthur refinery.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="59" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency meets in Vienna on September 19. </t>
<h>The International Atomic Energy Agency holds a meeting in Vienna.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="61" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said the actor's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf.</t>
<h>Kal-el Coppola Cage is the son of Nicholas Cage.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="63" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The controversy became more desperate, this summer, when astronomers discovered a new object, larger than Pluto, orbiting in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of nine billion miles from the Sun.</t>
<h>The Kuiper Belt is nine billion miles from the Sun.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="71" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>After the press conference, I met up with a Microsoft guy, John Traynor: senior director of segment marketing for the mobile devices division.</t>
<h>John Traynor is an executive of Microsoft.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="72" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>As a result, peptic ulcer disease has been transformed from a chronic, frequently disabling condition to one that can be cured by a short regimen of antibiotics and other medicines.</t>
<h>Antibiotics are used against peptic ulcer.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="74" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Others argue that Mr. Sharon should have negotiated the Gaza pullout - both to obtain at least some written promises of better Palestinian behavior, and to provide Mr. Abbas with a prime prize to show his people that diplomacy, not violence, delivered Gaza.</t>
<h>Mr. Abbas is a member of the Palestinian family.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="78" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>&quot;A force majeure is an act of God,&quot; said attorney Phil Wittmann, who represents the New Orleans Saints and owner Tom Benson's local interests.</t>
<h>Phil Wittmann works for Tom Benson.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="79" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>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 &quot;threat&quot; to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.</t>
<h>Ahmadinejad is a citizen of Iran.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="82" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>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 &quot;threat&quot; to bring the issue of Iran's nuclear activity to the UN Security Council by the US, France, Britain and Germany.</t>
<h>Ahmadinejad is a TIME magazine journalist.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="84" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.</t>
<h>Microsoft Corp. is a partner of Intel Corp.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="90" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.</t>
<h>Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="99" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Les Paul, who continues to perform weekly at New York Iridium Jazz Club, has finished recording &quot;Les Paul &amp; Friends.&quot;</t>
<h>Iridium Jazz Club is located in New York.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="102" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.</t>
<h>A patrol car was attacked by the San Carlos Battalion.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="124" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The government of El Salvador strongly condemns the terrorist attacks carried out with explosives, today, against the Salvadoran Workers National Union Federation, in which several persons were wounded and others died.</t>
<h>Terrorist attacks were carried out in El Salvador.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="125" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Sunday's explosion outside the Al-Rashi police station in the Al-Mashtel neighbourhood in the southeast of Baghdad, left a huge crater in the street.</t>
<h>Al Rashi is an executive of the police.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="137" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Salvadoran reporter Mauricio Pineda, a sound technician for the local Canal Doce television station, was shot to death today in Morazan Department in the eastern part of the country.</t>
<h>Mauricio Pineda was killed by gunfire.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="141" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Nelson Beavers is a co-owner of the current company, Carolina Analytical Laboratories LLC. and has ownership/employment history with Woodson-Tenent and Eurofin.</t>
<h>Nelson Beaver is staff at Carolina Analytical Laboratories.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="142" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>The Bulls agreed to trade center, Eddy Curry, to the New York Knicks on Monday.</t>
<h>Eddy Curry was acquired by the Bulls.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="144" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The Southeast Asian ministers gather in Laos for their regional meeting.</t>
<h>Southeast Asian ministers' meeting is held in Laos.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="145" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>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.</t>
<h>The city of Madras is located in Southern India.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="166" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>An Afghan interpreter, employed by the United States, was also wounded.</t>
<h>An interpreter worked for Afghanistan.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="172" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.</t>
<h>Microsoft Corp. invented the next generation HD DVD format.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="177" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>ECB spokeswoman, Regina Schueller, declined to comment on a report in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper that the ECB council will discuss Mr. Fazio's role in the takeover fight at its Sept. 15 meeting.</t>
<h>Regina Shueller works for Italy's La Repubblica newspaper.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="182" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>With Washington hinting it might soften its tough stance to break the deadlock, top US negotiator, Christopher Hill, said the two sides needed to review the situation.</t>
<h>Christopher Hill is a relative of a top US negotiator.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="185" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said Cage's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were available.</t>
<h>Nicholas Cage is married to Alice Kim Cage.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="186" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.</t>
<h>Oqueli was taking part in the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="188" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Kaspars Ruklis, press official at the United States Embassy, told the Baltic News Service that Mrs. Bush chose to visit Latvia's Occupation.</t>
<h>Kaspars Ruklis works for the United States Embassy.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="192" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Fernandez, of FEMA, was on scene when Martin arrived at a FEMA base camp before going to the hospital.</t>
<h>Fernandez works for FEMA.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="196" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has made an unannounced visit to Iraq, according to the office of Iraqi transitional Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. </t>
<h>Howard is a political representative of Australia.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="201" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>The dual citizenship debate has been a major distraction for the Weah campaign and many of his opponents have been secretly advocating against his presence in the race.</t>
<h>Weah does business with his opponents.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="223" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Three plays later, quarterback James Pinkney was sacked by Wake's Goryal Scales on third-and-one, forcing the team to punt.</t>
<h>James Pinkney was an employee of Goryal Scales.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="224" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>The San Diego Padres ace, Jake Peavy, was hurt in an 8-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.</t>
<h>The San Diego Padres won the game against the St. Louis Cardinals.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="229" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>SCI, Houston's largest funeral services company, was headed by Robert Waltrip--a close associate of the Bush family. </t>
<h>Robert Waltrip works for the Bush family.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="241" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Two new Les Paul books arrive in stores this year: The Les Paul Legacy by Rob Lawrence is due from Hal Leonard Publishing on October 27.</t>
<h>Rob Lawrence works for The Les Paul Legacy.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="242" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>San Salvador, Jan. 13, '90 (Acan-Efe) -The bodies of Hector Oqueli and Gilda Flores, who had been kidnapped yesterday, were found in Cuilapa, Guatemala, near the border with El Salvador, the relatives of one of the victims have reported.</t>
<h>Gilda Flores was kidnapped on the 13th of January 1990.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="245" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Patricia Amy Messier and Eugene W. Weaver were married May 28 at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church in North Palm Beach.</t>
<h>Eugene W. Weaver is the husband of Patricia Amy.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="251" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>At the time, neither &quot;USA Today&quot; nor &quot;The Observer&quot; was able to verify which of the sixty-plus candidates it was.</t>
<h>&quot;USA Today&quot; is a subsidiary of &quot;The Observer.&quot;</h>
</pair>
<pair id="253" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>It takes 560 years to complete one trip around the Sun (versus 250 years for Pluto).</t>
<h>Pluto's trip around the Sun lasts 250 years.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="254" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Alan Mulally, Boeing's head of the unit, said at the start of the strike that it may cause delivery delays that would give Airbus SAS an advantage in what is the strongest commercial aircraft market in five years.</t>
<h>Boeing is a subsidiary of Airbus SAS.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="256" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Linda Johnson, who lives with her husband, Charles, and two cats in a rented one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco's Mission District, said Katrina has made her realize she needs to gather together, in one accessible place, her scattered disaster supplies.</t>
<h>Linda Johnson is married to Charles.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="257" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The automobile industry, led by General Motors and Ford, offered price discounts from June-August that temporarily boosted sales, but these discounts may have masked underlying weakness.</t>
<h>Ford is part of the automobile industry.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="262" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front's [FMLN] urban commandos have denied reports they participated in an attack on vice president-elect Francisco Merino's home.</t>
<h>Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front is accused of an attack on Merino's home.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="263" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>&quot;A force majeure is an act of God,&quot; said attorney Phil Wittmann, who represents the New Orleans Saints and owner Tom Benson's local interests. </t>
<h>New Orleans Saints are property of Tom Benson.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="279" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Kabul - A roadside bomb that injured six U.S. soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, was followed by a blast near a Kabul police station, Monday, that hurt two police officers and a civilian.</t>
<h>The six U.S. soldiers were residents in Afghanistan.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="284" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, said, last night, that his officers were &quot;playing out of their socks&quot;, but admitted that they were &quot;racing against time&quot; to track down the bombers.</t>
<h>Sir Ian Blair works for the Metroplitan Police.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="286" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Valero Energy Corp., on Monday, said it found &quot;extensive&quot; additional damage at its 250,000-barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery.</t>
<h>Valero Energy Corp. caused damages to Port Arthur refinery. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="287" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Earlier this year, Kai-Uwe Ricke, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, floated the possibility that T-Mobile USA might be sold.</t>
<h>Deutsche Telekom sold T-Mobile USA.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="289" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>On 12 August, the San Carlos Battalion came across mines placed in their path and one soldier was killed while two were seriously injured. Meanwhile on 10 August, urban commandos took a patrol car by surprise and dropped a grenade inside the car, injuring four and partially destroying the vehicle.</t>
<h>Four people were injured by a grenade.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="290" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Larry Estrada, whose father served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam, said he has always had a great appreciation for the military and wanted to do his part to help. </t>
<h>Larry Estrada's father belonged to the Marine Corps.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="295" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The human rights promotion and protection secretariat of the FMLN strongly condemns the massacre of five Spanish-born Jesuit priests, and three Salvadoran citizens, carried out by the Salvadoran Armed Forces Soldiers.</t>
<h>The Salvadoran Armed Forces Soldiers murdered three Salvadoran citizens.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="300" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, are gathering in Laos to discuss topics ranging from terrorism and economic integration to non-aggression treaties with several regional neighbors.</t>
<h>Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations work for ASEAN.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="302" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Kasyanov was sacked by Putin in February 2004, after he had become critical of the Kremlin's politically motivated legal attack on the Yukos oil giant and its owner, billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.</t>
<h>The Kremlin is owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="304" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.</t>
<h>Oqueli was a member of the Socialist party.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="312" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>La Paz, 30 May 89 - La Paz Department Police authorities have disclosed that investigations into the murder of two young U.S. citizens are being conducted by a specialized group summoned specially to clarify this crime.</t>
<h>Two young U.S. citizens were killed on 30 May 89. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="314" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Oqueli was to fly to Nicaragua to join an international Socialist delegation, which will observe the Nicaraguan electoral campaign.</t>
<h>An electoral campaign is being held in Nicaragua.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="317" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>During that time, Wilson received the best-play Tony Award for &quot;Fences,&quot; plus best-play Tony nominations for six of his other plays, the Pulitzer Prize for both &quot;Fences&quot; and &quot;The Piano Lesson,&quot; and (a record) seven New York Drama Critics' Circle prizes.</t>
<h>Wilson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="325" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>The assassins of former Defense Minister Enrique Lopez Albujar Trint are presumably members of the Maoist terrorist organization, Shining Path, since the counterterrorism division has identified one of them as Gerardo Olivos Silva, through a composite made from witness' reports.</t>
<h>Gerardo Olivos Silva is a member of the Maoist terrorist organization Shining Path.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="329" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.</t>
<h>Toshiba Corp. is a partner of Sony Corp.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="331" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Referring to the April 2 car bomb explosion perpetrated in Santa Tecla, the FMLN-FDR claimed responsibility for the attack in a communique, and said that it was &quot;an action aimed directly at the police&quot; and that &quot;they regret the death of a civilian,&quot; but they did not mention compensation for the relatives.</t>
<h>A civilian was killed by a car bomb.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="335" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Alleged terrorists today, killed Dolores Hinostroza, the mayor of Mulqui district, shooting her five times.</t>
<h>The mayor of Mulqui district was murdered with a firearm.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="336" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Mahbob Amiri, head of Afghanistan's quick-reaction force, said Monday's bomb in the capital detonated as a United Nations vehicle drove past.</t>
<h>The United Nations produces vehicles.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="340" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Both of these attacks, attributed to the drug trafficking cartels, took place after 10 bombs, placed in nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties and in another bank office, exploded early this morning in downtown Bogota.</t>
<h>Nine political offices of the Liberal and Social Conservative parties were attacked by the drug trafficking cartels.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="344" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Olson, 62, previously worked as a partner at Ernst &amp; Young LLP, as a Minnesota bank president and as a congressional aide, before joining the Fed board in 2001, to serve a term ending in 2010.</t>
<h>Olson is a member of the Fed board.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="347" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Hinostroza's children told police that four hooded individuals broke into the house and shot their mother after having insulted her.</t>
<h>Hinostroza's children attaked their mother with a gun.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="355" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.</t>
<h>Microsoft Corp. is a competitor of Toshiba Corp.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="357" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.</t>
<h>Antonio Fazio works for the Bank of Italy.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="365" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>A.S. Roma suffered their second home defeat of the campaign, with a 3-2 loss to 10-man Siena.</t>
<h>Siena was beaten by A.S. Roma.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="366" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Alan Mulally, Boeing's head of the unit, said at the start of the strike that it may cause delivery delays that would give Airbus SAS an advantage in what is the strongest commercial aircraft market in five years.</t>
<h>Alan Mulally is the owner of Boeing.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="367" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday that it has developed the first laptop computer with its new HD DVD drive: a next-generation disc format it is promoting over a rival standard pushed by Sony Corp.</t>
<h>Toshiba Corp.'s headquarters is in Japan.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="368" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>A powerful bomb, hidden in a truck, exploded outside the headquarters of Colombia's secret police, Wednesday, causing severe damage, Bogota mayor Andres Pastrana said.</t>
<h>An attempt on Andres Pastrana's life was carried out using a powerful bomb.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="370" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Martin was given water to drink, then taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.</t>
<h>Ochsner Foundation Hospital is located in New Orleans.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="374" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Jim Tracy became the latest to be shown the door in Paul DePodesta's restructuring of the Los Angeles Dodgers.</t>
<h>Jim Tracy was fired by Paul DePodesta.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="375" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Second-half goals, from Danny Mills and Darius Vassell, lifted Manchester City to a 2-0 victory over Everton.</t>
<h>Manchester was beaten by Everton.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="378" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>Toshiba, the world's third-largest notebook computer maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., said the PC would be introduced in Japan in early 2006.</t>
<h>Toshiba produces notebook computers.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="379" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Ms. Miers' whole life was based in Dallas and revolved around her legal work, her family and an attachment to an evangelical church that led her to what her former pastor described as a flowering of faith late in life.</t>
<h>Ms. Miers was a leader of an evangelical church.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="380" entailment="YES" task="IE">
<t>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.</t>
<h>Kevin Whitaker is a manager of the Department of State.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="384" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Bogota, 4 May 88 - The dissemination of a document questioning Colombia's oil policy, is reportedly the aim of the publicity stunt carried out by the pro-Castro Army Of National Liberation, which kidnapped several honorary consuls, newsmen, and political leaders.</t>
<h>Several honorary consuls were kidnapped on 4 May 88.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="385" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Those accused of the assassination of six Jesuits, if found guilty, will be punished whether they are civilians, military, or influential people.</t>
<h>Six Jesuits were killed by civilians.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="387" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>FMLN reports to our people, and to the people of the world, that the massacre against the Salvadoran Workers National Union Federation [Fenastras] was carried out by Colonel Elena Fuente, as the head of the morbid death squad of the army's 1st Infantry Brigade, in response to our military attack on the army staff.</t>
<h>Fenastras was attacked by FMLN.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="391" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Moscow (USSR), 12 Jul 89 (PRAVDA)- Blood is flowing in Columbia, where last year, according to official statistics, there were 4,600 victims of political violence, including Jaime Pardo Leal (president of Colombia's national coordination committee), around 30 deputies and many municipal advisors and mayors.</t>
<h>Jaime Pardo Leal was killed in Moscow.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="397" entailment="NO" task="IE">
<t>Co-producing the film is Happy Madison, the company owned by Sandler, who has been a compatriot of Schneider's since they met early in their careers, as mutually struggling stand-up comedians in Los Angeles.</t>
<h>Happy Madison works for the company owned by Sandler.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="9" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The Sea-Viewing wide Field-of-View Sensor, SeaWiFS, has brought to oceanographers a welcomed and improved renewal of the ocean color remote sensing data. </t>
<h>Ocean remote sensing is developed. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="11" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The Bakun Hydroelectric Project (BHEP) comprises the construction of a 2,400MW hydroelectric dam, the transmission of its electricity, and the building of related infrastructure including access roads.</t>
<h>A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="13" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>A new report indicates that women's participation in decision-making in the country is minimal.</t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="14" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>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.</t>
<h>Humans existed 10,000 years ago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="20" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The ivory ban was imposed by CITES in 1989 after a wave of poaching across Africa saw elephant numbers fall from an estimated 1.3 million to a few hundred thousand. </t>
<h>The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="24" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Moscow believes that the waters of the Sea of Azov should remain in common use, but Kiev insists on a clear division.</t>
<h>There is a territorial waters dispute. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="32" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Rescuers searched rough seas off the capital yesterday for survivors of a ferry collision that claimed at least 28 lives, as officials blamed crew incompetence for the accident. </t>
<h>100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="42" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>For instance, the direct and indirect economic cost of the floods in Mozambique caused by Tropical Storms Elyne and Gloria in February and March 2000, is estimated at US$1 billion, as compared to the country's export earning of only US$300 million in 1999. </t>
<h>A tropical storm has caused significant property damage or loss of life.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="43" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>A number of marine plants are harvested commercially in Nova Scotia.</t>
<h>Marine vegetation is harvested.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="54" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Organic fertilizer slowly enriches and feeds the soil. Fast acting synthetic fertilizers harm soil life.</t>
<h>Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="56" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Capital punishment is a catalyst for more crime.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="58" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>New security steps taken by the Customs Service may not be enough to stop a terrorist from smuggling in nuclear weapons.</t>
<h>Steps are being taken to stop the smuggling of aliens.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="62" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Actual statistics about the deterrent value of capital punishment are not available because it is impossible to know who may have been deterred from committing a crime.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="68" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Beth Israel is fighting back in the lab, where bacteria taken from patients are grown in cultures and tested against antibiotics to determine if the bug beats the drug.</t>
<h>Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="80" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Westbridge manufactures certified organic fertilizers including liquid growth enhancers and biostimulants.</t>
<h>Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="88" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>A wooden steamer of 293 ft sank on 10/13/1902, 13.5 miles North by Northwest of Fairport Harbor, Ohio. The lives of ten of the 19 persons on board were lost in the wreck. </t>
<h>100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="89" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>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. </t>
<h>Ocean remote sensing is developed. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="92" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>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?'). </t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="93" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>In a sharply-worded internal World Bank report (leaked to The New York Times) the Bank has criticized its own decision to approve a controversial $40 million anti-poverty plan. </t>
<h>The World Bank is criticized for its policies.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="94" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>One economic study will not be the basis of Canada's public policy decisions, but Easton's research does conclusively show that there are economic benefits in the legalization of marijuana. </t>
<h>Drug legalization has benefits.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="95" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>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.</t>
<h>The introduction of the euro has been opposed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="98" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>About one million years ago, these people began to slowly leave Africa.</t>
<h>Humans existed 10,000 years ago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="100" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Initially the Bundesbank opposed the introduction of the euro but was compelled to accept it in light of the political pressure of the capitalist politicians who supported its introduction.</t>
<h>The introduction of the euro has been opposed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="101" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The May 3 ferry sinking in the Meghna River that claimed the lives of at least 370 people is a reminder of the dangers inherent in this sort of travel. </t>
<h>100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="104" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Well, the yolk is on us, the bacteria are winning, and at a record pace. </t>
<h>Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="105" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>A recent study found no evidence of seasonal affective disorder in Iceland where the sun does not appear for a long time in the winter.</t>
<h>Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="106" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>When patients interrupt a course of antibiotics, the surviving bacteria return with a vengeance, often having rapidly mutated to resist the therapy. </t>
<h>Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="107" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Capital punishment has a deterrent effect.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="108" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Some of the stolen trade secrets were seized from the defendants at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) while they were attempting to fly to China.</t>
<h>Trade secrets were stolen.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="112" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>This paper describes American alcohol use, the temperance movement, Prohibition, and the War on Drugs and explains how legalizing drugs would reduce crime and public health problems. </t>
<h>Drug legalization has benefits.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="114" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>It appears that the super-conducting maglev system is technically ready to be used commercially as a very high-speed, large-capacity transportation system.</t>
<h>Maglev is commercially used.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="115" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Only 16 women were elected to the 223-member parliament in 1995, and only 2 women hold ministerial posts. </t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="117" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Nigeria has been the culprit so far, preventing the world from being completely polio-free.</t>
<h>Polio is under control in the world.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="123" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Since the fear of death is virtually a universal phenomenon, the death penalty is an unparalleled deterrent for people considering a crime.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="133" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Tropical Storm Debby is blamed for several deaths across the Caribbean. </t>
<h>A tropical storm has caused loss of life.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="135" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>A few growers place charcoal in the bottom of containers to absorb excess salts and maintain sweet soil, if plants are grown more than a few months.</t>
<h>Plants are grown in water or in substances other than soil.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="136" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>For others, in the northern hemisphere, judgment may be a little off due to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which is often at its peak in the weeks following the shortest hours of daylight.</t>
<h>Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a worldwide disorder.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="146" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Lastly, the author uses the precedent of marijuana legalization in other countries as evidence that legalization does not solve any social problems, but instead creates them. </t>
<h>Drug legalization has benefits.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="151" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Definitely do not lift the ban on ivory, it will drive the species to near extinction again. Elephant numbers should be controlled but what has ivory got to do with it? It is a barbaric trade and should be banned permanently.</t>
<h>The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="152" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The gastric bypass operation, also known as stomach stapling, has become the most common surgical procedure for treating obesity.</t>
<h>Obesity is medically treated.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="154" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>United States naval forces evacuated U.S. civilians during hostilities between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces.</t>
<h>U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="158" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>More than 2,000 people lost their lives in the devastating Johnstown Flood. </t>
<h>100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="164" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Aleksandr Yakovenko, an official representative of the Russian Foreign</t>
<h>U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="168" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>As a result of these weaknesses, computer systems and the operations that rely on the systems were highly vulnerable to tampering, disruption, and misuse from both internal and external sources. </t>
<h>Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="170" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The total estimated project cost including financing, inflation and interest during construction, is approximately US$1.1 billion.</t>
<h>A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="178" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The release of its report led to calls for a complete ivory trade ban, and at the seventh conference in 1989, the African Elephant was moved to appendix one of the treaty.</t>
<h>The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="183" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.</t>
<h>The cost of paper is rising.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="184" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The drawbacks of legalization do not imply that our current version of prohibition is the optimal drug strategy; it may well be possible to implement prohibition in less harmful ways.</t>
<h>Drug legalization has benefits.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="187" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Women are poorly represented in transactions financed by mortgage bonds. </t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="198" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Yet, we now are discovering that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against illness. Disease-causing bacteria are mutating faster than we can come up with new antibiotics to fight the new variations. </t>
<h>Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="199" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>A United Nations vehicle was attacked in the Serbian province of Kosovo and at least one civilian policeman was killed, the United Nations said.</t>
<h>A civilian policeman was killed. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="204" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>By 45,000 years ago, humans had weathered the comings and goings of a number of ice ages, had spread themselves throughout most of Africa, Europe and Asia, and had reached a population of roughly a million.</t>
<h>Humans existed 10,000 years ago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="209" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The results of numerous epidemiological studies and recent clinical trials provide consistent evidence that diets rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of chronic disease. </t>
<h>Fruits and vegetables prevent osteoporosis.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="213" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The death penalty is not a deterrent.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="214" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The June Movement has always been opposed to giving EU cooperation a military dimension.</t>
<h>The introduction of the euro has been opposed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="215" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The most surprising news story of the past week must be the 'wonderful' story that the AIDS epidemic in India is under control.</t>
<h>Polio is under control in the world.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="216" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Rockweed has been harvested commercially in Nova Scotia since the late 1950's and is currently the most important commercial seaweed in Atlantic Canada.</t>
<h>Marine vegetation is  harvested.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="217" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Albert Sabin developed an oral, attenuated (live) vaccine, which, with Salk's discovery, brought polio under control.</t>
<h>Polio is under control in the world.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="220" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>German Siemens and ThyssenKrupp may sell relevant core technology to China, which owns the first commercially operated maglev line.</t>
<h>Maglev is commercially used.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="221" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>It has been observed that in those countries of the world where capital punishment is still in operation, the crime rate, especially murder, is distinctively low in comparison to countries where capital punishment has been discarded.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="226" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Drew Walker, NHS Tayside's public health director, said: &quot;It is important to stress that this is not a confirmed case of rabies.&quot;</t>
<h>A case of rabies was confirmed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="231" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Deceased U.S. soldiers and their effects were evacuated to Japan and then shipped home in refrigerated containers for interment in the U.S.</t>
<h>The U.S. military evacuated U.S. citizens.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="233" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The introduction of the euro has dismantled barriers to cross-border trading and enhanced risk sharing and opportunities for diversification.</t>
<h>The introduction of the euro has been opposed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="238" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Thanks to a global ban on the ivory trade that was passed in 1989 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the African elephant population may be reversing its spiral toward extinction</t>
<h>The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="239" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>We are committed to the deployment of these technologies and are excited by the advances in remote sensing technology that are enabling us to extract more information from sensors in a cost-efficient and timely manner.</t>
<h>Ocean remote sensing is developed. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="243" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>No case of indigenously acquired rabies infection has been confirmed in man or any animal species during the past 2 years.  </t>
<h>A case of rabies was confirmed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="248" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Despite Chinese assertions of control, tensions over the South China Sea's waters have continued to rise.</t>
<h>There is a territorial waters dispute. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="250" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Some plants grow really well in a hydroponic environment, but others do not.</t>
<h>Plants are grown in water or in substances other than soil.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="252" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>FBI agent Denise Stemen said in an affidavit that Lowe's alerted the FBI recently that intruders had broken into its computer at company headquarters in North Carolina, altered its computer programs and illegally intercepted credit card transactions. </t>
<h>Non-authorized personnel illegally entered into computer networks.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="258" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The scientific community now generally agrees that between 5 and 8 million years ago, there lived in Africa a hominid which would ultimately give rise to the first hominids and later the members of the genus Homo.</t>
<h>Humans existed 10,000 years ago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="261" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>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.</t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="264" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Some people may think that there is no other way to grow plants other than in soil; there is however, another way. </t>
<h>Plants are grown  in  substances other than soil.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="273" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Eleven years after 852 people, mostly Swedes, perished when the ferry Estonia sank on a stormy Baltic night, an exhibition in the National Maritime Museum in Stockholm brings back the pain and controversy which have haunted Sweden since the disaster. </t>
<h>100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="278" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Only a few Mag-lev trains have been used commercially such as at the Birmingham airport in the UK.</t>
<h>Maglev is commercially used.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="280" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>They, too, have not produced a practical, commercially acceptable maglev.</t>
<h>Maglev is commercially used.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="283" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have all been criticized for their role in catalyzing the harmful impacts of corporate globalization on people, the environment and sustainable development.</t>
<h>The World Bank is criticized for its activities.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="293" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>A joint venture led by Australia's Global Petroleum Ltd. said, yesterday, it had won the right to explore for oil and gas in the inhospitable waters south and east of the Falkland Islands. </t>
<h>Petroleum will be explored in the South Atlantic.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="298" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Polio is no longer a serious health problem for people living in the developed nations, such as the United States, Germany, or France.</t>
<h>Polio is under control in the world.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="299" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Over 100 more lives were lost at sea, and 1800 were lost in Holland. </t>
<h>100 or more people lost their lives in a ferry sinking.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="305" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Hydroponics is the growth of plants in a substance other than soil with water.</t>
<h>Plants are grown in substances other than soil.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="309" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>By the time a case of rabies is confirmed, the disease may have taken hold in the area. </t>
<h>A case of rabies was confirmed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="315" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Newspapers choke on rising paper costs and falling revenue.</t>
<h>The cost of paper is rising.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="322" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The ivory ban has been successful. Demand for ivory has dropped and elephant populations expanded dramatically in areas where they were virtually extinct.</t>
<h>The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="332" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>About 50 percent of all British party members are female (in contrast to only about 25 percent in Germany) but only 9.2 percent are represented in parliament. </t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="333" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The Croatian intent is even more problematic because the border between Slovenian and Croatian territorial waters has not yet been established. The dispute about this border began in 1991 when both countries became independent. </t>
<h>There is a territorial waters dispute. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="334" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>The commission's order on the proposed hydroelectric development shall describe the Energy Facility Siting Council's recommendations on the need for the power.</t>
<h>A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="337" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Obesity is medically accepted to be a disease in its own right.</t>
<h>Obesity is medically treated.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="342" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Capital punishment acts as a deterrent.</t>
<h>Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="343" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>The increase in womens' representation in the first elections to the Scottish Parliament has become a symbol for change, backed by the Parliament's principled commitment to creating a more equal society. </t>
<h>Women are poorly represented in parliament.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="345" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Meteorological observations suggest Claudette remained a tropical storm as she affected parts of west Texas. </t>
<h>A tropical storm has caused significant property damage.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="346" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>Yet fishermen from both sides say boats lack navigational tools to let them know when they've crossed the frontier, which still is subject to a bilateral dispute dating to the 1965 war between the countries. </t>
<h>There is a territorial waters dispute. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="352" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>Humic acids are complex organic molecules formed by the breakdown of organic matter in the soil. They are not considered to be fertilizers, but soil enhancers and improvers.</t>
<h>Organic fertilizers are used as soil enhancers.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="358" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>After two years, the aspirin subjects experienced a reduced risk of fatal and nonfatal stroke.</t>
<h>People experienced adverse effects while taking aspirin.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="360" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>A report by the African</t>
<h>The ban on ivory trade has been effective in protecting the elephant from extinction.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="369" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>In reality, legalization would dramatically expand America's drug dependence, significantly increase the social costs of drug abuse, and put countless more innocent lives at risk. </t>
<h>Drug legalization has benefits.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="377" entailment="YES" task="IR">
<t>These early men learned to make fire. They traveled over land bridges from Africa, and began to populate the world, about 1 million years ago. </t>
<h>Humans existed 10,000 years ago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="395" entailment="NO" task="IR">
<t>All U.S Embassy personnel in non-emergency positions and family members of U.S Embassy personnel who were evacuated as a result of the initial conflict have been authorized to return to Eritrea.</t>
<h>U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="3" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>OTN profiles the Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement), which is a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist group.</t>
<h>The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as OTN.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="8" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The credit card mobile phones now provided on some aircraft, do not interfere with aircraft systems because they are wired to a special &quot;base station&quot; that has been designed to safely receive and transmit radio signals in the aircraft.</t>
<h>Mobile phones can interfere with aircraft systems. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="10" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Apart from the new substances entering the market, the phase out of existing ones, which have been definitely identified as damaging the ozone layer, is far from complete.</t>
<h>New substances are damaging the ozone layer. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="17" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>&quot;The Black Panther&quot;, or &quot;The Black Pearl&quot;, as he was known, was top scorer in the 1966 World Cup, with nine goals to his name.</t>
<h>The best scorer at the World Championship in 1966 was &quot;The Black Pearl.&quot;</h>
</pair>
<pair id="18" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Dr. Pridi was forced into exile, and Field Marshal Pibul again assumed power.</t>
<h>Pibul was a field marshal. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="19" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Access to the underground workings at the La Camorra mine is via a ramp from the surface, excavated at a -15% grade and connecting numerous levels.</t>
<h>La Camorra is a mine. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="21" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Muslim fundamentalists such as the Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as Hamas, and the smaller Islamic Jihad are determined to torpedo the peace process.</t>
<h>The Islamic Resistance Movement is also known as Hamas.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="23" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The book contains short stories by the famous Bulgarian writer, Nikolai Haitov.</t>
<h>Nikolai Haitov is a writer. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="26" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Tom Cruise is married to actress Nicole Kidman and the couple has 2 adopted children.</t>
<h>Tom Cruise is married to Nicole Kidman. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="30" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Meanwhile, thousands of soldiers from the first Gulf War are still suffering from severe symptoms that have been linked to what is now known as Gulf War illness, say veterans advocates.</t>
<h>Many US soldiers developed Gulf War illness after the Gulf War. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="31" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The currency used in China is the Renminbi Yuan. </t>
<h>The Renminbi Yuan is the currency used in China. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="34" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>While the total population for Missouri increased by 2.8 percent, the Hispanic population shows a 24.9 percent increase between 2000 and 2004.</t>
<h>Missouri's population is 2.8 million. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="35" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The sunset, touching distant hills with ribbons of fire across the waters of the Dead Sea, brings a sense of unreality to culminate a day's visit to the lowest point on earth, some 400 meters below sea level. </t>
<h>The lowest point on earth is at the Dead Sea.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="37" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>During the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, Chinese student demonstrators in Beijing built a 10-meter version of the Statue of Liberty to symbolize their struggle.</t>
<h>The Statue of Liberty was built in 1989.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="47" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Tyson, who served three years in jail for rape in the 1990s and who bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight, still thinks he can be heavyweight champion again.</t>
<h>Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1990. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="48" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Renminbi - RMB (commonly used in China), is the basic unit of currency issued by the People's Bank of China.</t>
<h>Renminbi is the currency used in China. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="49" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>It uses the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year as the start of the Chinese New Year.</t>
<h>The Chinese New Year's Day falls on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Year.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="51" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>And, despite its own suggestions to the contrary, Oracle will sell PeopleSoft and JD Edwards financial software through reseller channels to new customers. </t>
<h>Oracle sells financial software.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="57" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.</t>
<h>Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="69" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>As regards the headquarters building, the Swiss are stipulating that they would transfer it to the WTO for a value of about 51 million swiss franks.</t>
<h>The WTO headquarters are in Switzerland.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="70" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Prolonged exposure to UV-B light can cause sunburn, and there are worries that damage to the ozone layer may lead to an increase in the incidence of skin cancer. </t>
<h>UV-B light is damaging the ozone layer. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="75" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Rana told a delegation of the Nepal Trans-Himanlyan Trade Association, the only non-governmental organization which has trade relations with China, who informed the minister of the problems existing in the bilateral trade sector.</t>
<h>Rana is the Trade Minister in China.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="85" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The Statue of Liberty is so big it had to be built in 300 sections.</t>
<h>The Statue of Liberty was built in the year 300.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="87" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Pibul was anti-communist as well as nationalistic.</t>
<h>Pibul was nationalistic.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="91" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The Dalai Lama has offered to send 50 trained teachers from the exile community to help the educational development of Tibet.</t>
<h>The Dalai Lama has been living in exile since 1950.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="96" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.</t>
<h>A female rabbit is called a doe.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="97" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>In other words, with its 2 million inhabitants, Slovenia has only 5.5 thousand professional soldiers.</t>
<h>Slovenia has 5.5 million inhabitants.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="109" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Like the corporate logos, the ear is a representation, in mouth-watering chocolate, a delicious reminder of the infamous boxing incident in 1997, when an enraged Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.</t>
<h>Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1997.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="111" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>German automaker, Volkswagen AG, launched a special collector's edition of its original Beetle, on Thursday, to mark the end of the line for the most popular car in history.</t>
<h>Volkswagen AG produces the 'Beetle'.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="116" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Named the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in honor of its founder, the building opened in 1959, drawing huge crowds and stirring considerable controversy. </t>
<h>The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was opened in 1959.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="130" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Mr. McEveety told me he had discussed the quote voiced by Archbishop Dziwisz with the pope's longtime official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, head of the Vatican press office.</t>
<h>Joaquin Navarro-Valls is the pope's official spokesman.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="132" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The abode of the Greek gods was on the summit of Mount Olympus, in Thessaly.</t>
<h>Mount Olympus is in Thessaly. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="138" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The Sears Tower in Chicago, finished in 1974, has 110 stories and is 1,450 feet tall.</t>
<h>The Sears Tower has 110 stories.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="139" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The Chicago Bulls are a National Basketball Association team based in Chicago, Illinois.</t>
<h>The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="143" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Immediately after 1990, however, Swedish fertility plummeted in another unique movement, and had fallen to 1.5 children per woman in 1998 and in 1999. This is the lowest birth rate in Sweden ever-although above the European average.</t>
<h>Sweden is the European country with the highest birth rate.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="147" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov set the record for the longest continuous amount of time spent in space, a staggering 438 days, between 1994 and 1995. He orbited the Earth 7000 times, witnessing 7000 sunrises and 7000 sunsets.</t>
<h>7000 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="155" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Nonetheless, a literacy rate of 96 percent put Cuba on a par with such highly developed countries as Japan, France, the Soviet Union, Switzerland and Italy, Campo said.</t>
<h>The literacy rate in Cuba is 96%.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="165" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln as he sat in the presidential box of Ford's Theater watching the light comedy, &quot;Our American Cousin.&quot;</t>
<h>Lincoln was assassinated in the presidential box of Ford's Theater.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="167" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>IBM is now at the top of my list of where I want to work. Ivy alone had nine interviews when the team visited the company's headquarters in Armonk last week.</t>
<h>IBM's has its headquarters in Armonk.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="169" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Last week, LTTE leader Vilupillai Prabhakaran stated that the rebels are running out of patience and are prepared to go back to war.</t>
<h>Vilupillai Prabhakaran is a rebel. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="173" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The Beetle has achieved an unbelievable cult status across the world, not least because its creation marked the launch of what has since become the largest car company in Europe.</t>
<h>Europe produces the 'Beetle'.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="174" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>On July 8th, the Mozilla team released a configuration change which resolves this problem by explicitly disabling the use of the shell: an external protocol handler.</t>
<h>A shell is an external protocol handler.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="175" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Black Tigers are selected for their discipline and their loyalty to Vilupillai Prabhakaran, 41, the elusive leader of the LTTE.</t>
<h>Vilupillai Prabhakaran is the elusive leader of the LTTE.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="179" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Arabic, for example, is used densely across North Africa and from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Philippines, as the key language of the Arab world and the primary vehicle of Islam.</t>
<h>Arabic is the primary language of the Philippines. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="180" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>These days are special for St Petersburg - on January 18, 1943 the siege of Leningrad was broken. </t>
<h>The siege of Leningrad was broken on January 18, 1943.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="181" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Paul Watson, the founder of Greenpeace, will speak on campus Wednesday, March 3.  </t>
<h>Paul Watson is the founder of Greenpeace.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="193" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Between 1978 and 1982, 32 states acknowledged the medical benefits and attempted to make cannabis available, but possession remains a federal offence. Among the states where marijuana is legally used for medical purposes are California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada.</t>
<h>In the Netherlands, people can legally have 32 grams of cannabis in their possession.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="194" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>But when the WTO headquarters issue came up, and Germany made an offer and a pitch to get the WTO to be headquartered in Bonn, the Swiss suddenly realised they were vulnerable and began improving their offers.</t>
<h>The WTO headquarters is in Bonn.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="195" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California.</t>
<h>Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="200" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The Philippines has developed into a natural hub for U.S. contact center support with the use of English as the second national language and primary language of business.</t>
<h>English is the primary language of the Philippines. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="202" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The longest stay in space was 438 days by Valeri Polyakov.</t>
<h>The record for the longest stay in space, by a human, is 438 days.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="205" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Nor is it clear whether any US support to Germany, in favour of Bonn as the WTO headquarters, would necessarily tilt a decision in that direction.</t>
<h>The WTO headquarters is in Bonn.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="206" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The lion's share of this traffic comes from Angola, where diamonds from the area controlled by UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels are subject to an embargo. </t>
<h>Angola was subject to an embargo on the export of diamonds.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="208" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>In 1983 Turkish Cypriots proclaimed a separate state, naming it the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Peace talks have been held sporadically, but Cyprus remains divided. </t>
<h>Cyprus was divided into two parts in 1983.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="211" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>While preliminary work goes on at the Geneva headquarters of the WTO, with members providing input, key decisions are taken at the ministerial meetings.</t>
<h>The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="219" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>A charity today joined forces with Glasgow's new Lord Provost to launch a campaign to help the Russian city's twin. A convoy of aid is being sent to Rostov-on-Don next month by The Caring City Organisation.  </t>
<h>Rostov-on-Don is a Russian city whose twin is Glasgow. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="222" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Begun in 1989 with generous annual support from Lutheran Brotherhood (now Thrivent Financial for Lutherans), the Nobel Peace Prize Forum's stimulating array of programs has involved more than 21,000 participants and reached a much broader audience through national and regional media coverage. </t>
<h>Lutheran Brotherhood received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="225" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>In June 1971 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev occupied Salyut for 23 days, setting a new record for the longest human spaceflight.</t>
<h>23 days is the record for the longest stay in space by a human. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="227" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Six time prime minister Giulio Andreotti is just one of the many casualties stemming from these investigations and subsequent trials.</t>
<h>Giulio Andreotti is a prime minister. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="232" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Ruth bounced back from his 1925 ailments and problems to lead the American League in home runs with 47, 28 home runs more than anyone else.</t>
<h>Ruth hit 47 runs in his lifetime. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="234" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The curious Belgian compromise over the weed has some logic, even for a country which says it wants to reduce drug use. Surveys show that as many as 40 percent of the country's 10 million population has experienced cannabis and with the Dutch border an hour away for most of the population, some liberalisation seems inevitable. </t>
<h>People can legally have 40 grams of cannabis in their possession.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="236" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Born in 1946, into a family many of whose members belonged to liberal professions, Radwa Ashour studied English Literature at Cairo University. She is now Professor of English Literature at Ain Shams University, a novelist, the wife of Palestinian poet Mourid Al-Barghouti and Umm Tamim.</t>
<h>Rwada Ashour is a Palestinian poet.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="237" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>In February 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army landed an army of 20 thousand men in Dili (the capital of East Timor) and occupied the then Portuguese colony.</t>
<h>East Timor was a colony of Dili before it was occupied by Indonesia in 1975. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="244" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Mr. Balasingham will return to his London home and then move on to Sri Lanka in early October to consult with LTTE leader Vilupillai Prabhakaran, diplomats said.</t>
<h>Vilupillai Prabhakaran is a diplomat. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="246" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The Chicago White Sox are a major league baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois.</t>
<h>The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago, Illinois.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="259" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and Museum opened the nation's first major John Lennon </t>
<h>Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="266" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>The city is twinned with Glasgow, Dortmund, Pleven, and Le Mans. </t>
<h>Dortmund is twinned with Glasgow. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="272" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Natalya Reshetovskaya, 84, was the first wife of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.</t>
<h>Alexander Solzhenitsyn's wife's name was Natalya Reshetovskaya.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="275" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>According to the 2002 census Slovenia has 1,964,036 inhabitants.</t>
<h>Slovenia has 1,964,036 inhabitants.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="276" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Elizabeth Dowdeswell is the Under Secretary General at the United Nations Offices at Nairobi and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.</t>
<h>Elizabeth Dowdeswell is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="277" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Cannabis is freely available in the Netherlands for sale in &quot;coffee shops&quot; in small quantities. The cost of five grammes, the maximum amount that can be legally purchased, is about &#xA3;11.50 ($19), enough to make about a dozen cigarettes.</t>
<h>In the Netherlands five grams of cannabis can be legally held in possession. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="281" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>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.</t>
<h>There are 32 pandas in the wild in China. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="294" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The headquarters of the WTO are in Geneva, but the disputes which come under its purview are settled in Paris, under ICC rules. </t>
<h>The WTO headquarters are located in Geneva. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="296" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Mossad is one of the world's most well-known intelligence agencies, and is often viewed in the same regard as the CIA and MI6.</t>
<h>Mossad is an intelligence agency.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="297" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>A male rabbit is called a buck and a female rabbit is called a doe, just like deer.</t>
<h>A female rabbit is called a buck. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="306" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>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.</t>
<h>About 33.5 miilion people live in Tokyo.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="307" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Most of the life of Petko Kiryakov was not unveiled by historians but by the prominent Bulgarian writer Nikolai Haitov, who wrote a novel and a script which was turned into a TV series, which became a favourite of most Bulgarians.</t>
<h>Nikolai Haitov is a historian. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="313" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>It's Biodiesel, and Bio-Beetle is the first all-BD rental car company.</t>
<h>Biodiesel produces the 'Beetle'.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="316" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>On April 28 1945, at the Piazzale Loreto in Milan, Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were shot and hanged in a spectacle that was photographed repeatedly.</t>
<h>Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="318" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>This document declares the 'irrevocable determination' of Edward VIII to abdicate. By signing this document on December 10th, 1936, he gave up his right to the British throne.</t>
<h>King Edward VIII abdicated on the 10th of December, 1936.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="324" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Yoko Ono unveiled a bronze statue of her late husband, John Lennon, to complete the official renaming of England's Liverpool Airport as Liverpool John Lennon Airport.</t>
<h>Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="328" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>For many years, Sudam was controlled by Jader Barbalho, who was the governor of the state of Par? and its senator.</t>
<h>Jader Barbalho is the governor of Sudam. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="330" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Two young soldiers have killed themselves after falling ill with suspected Gulf War Syndrome, following the latest </t>
<h>Many US soldiers developed Gulf War Syndrome after the Gulf War. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="338" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>El Nino is so named because the effects of the warmer water off Peru are usually noticed near Christmas time.</t>
<h>El Nino is named after Peru.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="341" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>He became a boxing referee in 1964 and became most well-known for his decision against Mike Tyson, during the Holyfield fight, when Tyson bit Holyfield's ear.</t>
<h>Mike Tyson bit Holyfield's ear in 1964.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="350" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>Jader Barbalho, once president of the country's largest political party, was arrested on Saturday in the Amazonian city of Belem, after officials in the neighbouring state of Tocantins issued a warrant against him.</t>
<h>Jader Barbalho is the president of Amazon. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="353" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The treaty requires that members comply with guidelines on deficits, public debt and other fiscal benchmarks by the end of 1997 if they are to qualify for taking part in the introduction of a new, single European currency in 1999.</t>
<h>The European single currency was introduced in 1999.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="354" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, approved this museum as the world's first museum to honor John Lennon.</t>
<h>Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="356" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>In all, Zerich bought $422 million worth of oil from Iraq, according to the Volcker committee. In the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed, Rich quickly became the most powerful trader there.</t>
<h>Zerich bought oil from Iraq during the embargo. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="362" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>About two weeks before the trial started, I was in Shapiro's office in Century City.</t>
<h>Shapiro works in Century City. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="364" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>In the last few days of the war, Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, tried to escape to Switzerland.</t>
<h>Mussolini's mistress was Clara Petacci.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="372" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in the Olympic Range, rises to a height of 7,965 feet (2,428 meters) and is less than 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the Strait of Juan de Fuca.</t>
<h>Mount Olympus is in the Olympic Range.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="373" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>As with the Babylonian New Year, the Chinese New Year, which occurred on the 1st of February in 2003, the day before Groundhog Day, is correlated to the beginning of spring.</t>
<h>The Chinese New Year's Day falls on the 1st of February in 2003. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="381" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>In a move reminiscent for some of another actor, Ronald Reagan, who was twice elected governor of California, Schwarzenegger said he would be putting his movie career on hold so he can devote his time to running for governor.</t>
<h>Ronald Regan was elected governor of California. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="386" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>I have a 1986 Coca-Cola Grand Union 100 Year Statue of Liberty pin set.</t>
<h>The Statue of Liberty was built in 1986.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="388" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Mount Olympus towers up from the center of the earth.</t>
<h>Mount Olympus is in the center of the earth. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="389" entailment="NO" task="QA">
<t>For one, Israel can comfortably subtract Gaza's 1.5m inhabitants from its demographic nightmare, maintaining, for a while longer perhaps, the Jewish majority.</t>
<h>Israel has 1.5m Jewish inhabitants. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="392" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>Michael Jordan, coach Phil Jackson and the star cast, including Scottie Pippen, took the Chicago Bulls to six National Basketball Association championships.</t>
<h>The Bulls basketball team is based in Chicago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="398" entailment="YES" task="QA">
<t>The widow of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, may take legal action against a new breakfast cereal called &quot;Strawberry Fields,&quot; which she believes is too close in name to Lennon's song.</t>
<h>Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="1" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The men, who will be able to apply for parole to avoid serving the full 25 years, were immediately taken into custody after the sentencing and whisked out of the courtroom in handcuffs.  </t>
<h>Kozlowski and Swartz, who were found guilty of stealing more than $150 million from the company, were each sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="5" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Amazon shares fell nearly 4 percent following the results as the company said operating income would drop as much as 42 percent in the second quarter.</t>
<h>Shares of Amazon fell 4 percent.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="7" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>India and Pakistan have agreed to release hundreds of fishermen and other civilians in each other's jails, a goodwill measure that comes as part of a peace process between the two countries.</t>
<h>India and Pakistan have decided to free hundreds of civilian prisoners in each others jails. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="22" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>A Miami International Airport concourse was evacuated for three hours Wednesday, after a pepper spray can discharged, causing 43 people to suffer respiratory distress.</t>
<h>An Airport concourse was evacuated Wednesday, after people began having trouble breathing.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="25" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>That request is at odds with the law signed early yesterday, by Bush, directing the federal courts to consider the case de novo without taking into account the state court's findings.</t>
<h>President Bush authorized the federal courts to review the case.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="38" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>British actor, Hugh Laurie, had been favourite to win best drama actor for &quot;House&quot;, but lost out to &quot;Boston Legal&quot;'s James Spader.</t>
<h>James Spader won best actor for &quot;Boston Legal.&quot;</h>
</pair>
<pair id="41" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Experts say that Mr. Abbas will need that big win to show that he has the support of most Palestinian people in order to push through his aims of peace talks with Israel.</t>
<h>Analysts had said that Mr. Abbas needed a large margin of victory in order to push his agenda of peace talks with Israel.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="44" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Kozlowski and the company's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, were sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.  </t>
<h>A New York state judge also ordered Kozlowski and former Chief Financial Officer, Mark Swartz, to serve 25 years in prison.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="46" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Three Democrats joined the committee's 10 majority Republicans in a 13-5 vote to advance the conservative judge's nomination to the full Senate. Five Democrats opposed Roberts. </t>
<h>The Senate Judiciary Committee, on Thursday, approved Judge John Roberts' nomination as the next Supreme Court Chief Justice, virtually assuring his confirmation by the Senate next week.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="52" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>In clashes between Israeli forces and gunmen, one Palestinian was </t>
<h>A Palestinian was killed and other people were wounded.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="53" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Iran will hold the first runoff presidential election in its history, between President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Tehran's hard-line mayor, election officials said Saturday.</t>
<h>Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is the president.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="60" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Radical Jordanian cleric, Abu Qatada, and nine other foreign nationals said to pose a threat to the UK's security, have been detained, pending deportation.</t>
<h>10 foreign nationals were a threat to Britian's national security. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="64" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.  </t>
<h>Responding to a plea from the International Energy Agency for member countries to release reserves, Canada is prepared to help. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="65" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Dr. David Nabarro, of the World Health Organization, said a pandemic could come at any time and claim anywhere between 5 million and 150 million lives, depending on the world's response to bird flu. </t>
<h>The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="66" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned Friday that recent gains in U.S. home prices, stock values and other forms of wealth may be temporary and could easily erode if long-term interest rates rise.</t>
<h>Greenspan also worried in his speech about what will occur with the ending of the recent sustained period of low interest rates and low risks for investors.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="67" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>While the beet is roasting, make the vinaigrette: In a bowl, whisk together the orange juice, balsamic vinegar, and extra-virgin olive oil.</t>
<h>In a bowl, toss the olive oil with salt and pepper.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="73" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The team drawing up Iraq's new constitution considered giving itself more time to write the document on Sunday, but still looked set to meet its mid-August deadline under intense U.S. pressure.</t>
<h>On Sunday, officials argued about whether to seek a delay of the August deadline for completing the document in order to give them more time to hash out such sticky issues.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="76" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Still, the storm surge was both stronger and earlier than expected, apparently coming through waterways southeast of the city, said Col. Richard Wagenaar, the Army Corps of Engineers' district chief in New Orleans.</t>
<h>Col. Richard Wagenaar said the problems would set back repairs at least three weeks, but June was still the target for having the levees back to pre-Katrina strength. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="77" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>He determined that there were 1,678 illegal votes cast in the election, but he said Republicans had provided no real proof that illegal votes benefited Gregoire.</t>
<h>Most of the illegal votes cast in the election went to Gregoire.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="81" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>An explosion, followed by a raging fire, demolished a plastics factory, killing at least three people and injuring at least 37.</t>
<h>A massive blast at a plastics factory killed at least two people.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="83" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Rumsfeld signaled a harder line against China from the Bush administration, which has criticized Beijing over trade and human rights issues but not directly challenged the Chinese military buildup.</t>
<h>Rumsfeld is leveling some harsh criticism at China during his trip.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="86" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The settlement must be approved by Citigroup's board of directors and the board of Regents of the University of California, the lead plaintiff for investors in the case.</t>
<h>The settlement is pending approval by Citigroup's directors and the board of Regents at the University of California. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="103" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Seeking common ground amid sensitive differences on democracy, Bush and Putin agreed Thursday, on new efforts to keep nuclear arms away from terrorists as well as from sovereign nations like Iran and North Korea.</t>
<h>Putin and Bush, on Thursday, agreed that Iran, along with North Korea, must not become a nuclear threat. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="110" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The ball took one last turn and dropped into the cup for birdie, making Retief Goosen more than just the sole survivor of par at Pinehurst No. 2.</t>
<h>Goosen managed a combined 25-over par for the closing round.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="113" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.</t>
<h>Mahmoud Abbas has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="118" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Chinese Premier, Zhu Rongji, and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, opened the world's first commercial magnetic levitation (maglev) train yesterday, with both sides having much to gain from its success.</t>
<h>Both Mr. Schroeder and Mr. Zhu have much to gain if maglev succeeds.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="119" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The Prince of Wales and  Bowles will marry on Friday, April 8, at Windsor Castle, said Clarence House, Charles' residence and office.</t>
<h>The Prince of Wales and Bowles will marry in a civil ceremony at Windsor Castle.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="120" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>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. </t>
<h>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.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="121" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The Israeli army forces carried out, on Saturday, a widespread military operation into the West Bank town of Jenin and its </t>
<h>The Israeli army carried out a widespread operation in Jenin.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="122" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Investigators in Venezuela have been combing the grisly wreck of a Colombian plane which crashed on Tuesday, killing all 160 people on board.</t>
<h>A chartered jet, filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday in Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="126" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The Walt Disney Co. donated one of the world's most significant private collections of African artwork, yesterday, to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.</t>
<h>Disney gave the Smithsonian a trove of sought-after African art.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="127" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, has won a landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election and will succeed the late Yasser Arafat.</t>
<h>Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the Palestinian presidential elections, and has dedicated his win to Yasser Arafat, who died in November 2004.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="128" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>A jet filled with tourists returning home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, crashed Tuesday, in Venezuela.</t>
<h>A plane carrying vacationers home to the island of Martinique crashed, Tuesday, in Venezuela.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="129" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.</t>
<h>North Korea says it will rejoin nuclear talks.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="131" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has offered 'the hand of peace' to Israel after his landslide victory in Sunday's presidential election.</t>
<h>Mahmoud Abbas has claimed victory in the presidential elections.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="134" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Google and NASA announced a working agreement, Wednesday, that could result in the Internet giant building a complex of up to 1 million square feet on NASA-owned property, adjacent to Moffett Field, near Mountain View.</t>
<h>Google may build a campus on NASA property.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="140" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Creeping trade protectionism, and bloated budget deficits, pose a risk to the United States' long-term economic vitality, Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, warned Friday.</t>
<h>Federal Reserve boss, Alan Greenspan, sees increased US trade protectionism and budget deficits as threats to the US economy.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="148" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Thousands of Shias have marched in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to back the new constitution and to mourn 1,000 pilgrims who died in a stampede. </t>
<h>Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied in the southern city of Basra to show support for Iraq's new constitution. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="149" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The revamped engine indexes more pages than before, can give direct answers to factual questions, and features tools to help people create detailed queries.</t>
<h>The engine can answer specific queries directly. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="150" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Despite CNOOC's all-cash bid, Unocal said its recommendation to shareholders in favor of the $16.4 billion offer of cash and stock from Chevron remains in effect.</t>
<h>Unocal said it would evaluate the CNOOC offer. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="153" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement in order to spend time with her ill husband.</t>
<h>Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="156" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>As the storm passed, a celebratory mood took over the city until early Sunday morning, when rap mogul, Suge Knight, was targeted by gunfire at a Kanye West party.</t>
<h>The most notable happening occurred early Sunday morning, when rap-label owner, Marion &quot;Suge&quot; Knight, was shot in the leg at a Kanye West party.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="157" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The West Pharmaceutical Services plant, which had been cited for </t>
<h>The West Pharmaceutical Services plant had been cited for numerous safety violations last autumn.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="159" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>&quot;I will take a brief vacation with some priest friends after Christmas and then I will go on retreat at a monastery,&quot; Law, reading from a brief statement, told reporters.</t>
<h>Law said he plans to take a brief vacation after Christmas and later retreat to a monastery.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="160" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Rehnquist served longer as chief justice than anyone in a century, and his 33-year career as a justice was among the half-dozen longest in the court's history.</t>
<h>Rehnquist served the second-longest tenure, as chief justice, in US history. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="161" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Goosen shot a 69 on Saturday, one of only two sub-par rounds on the day, to grab a three-shot lead through 54 holes at Pinehurst No. 2.</t>
<h>Goosen shot a 69 and has a three-shot lead.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="162" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that North Korea should return to nuclear disarmament talks and avoid a path toward further international isolation.</t>
<h>North Korea has a stockpile of nuclear weapons.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="163" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Once on the train (according to what the channel said was a leaked police statement, aired Tuesday night) a police officer pinned de Menezes down when another officer shot him.</t>
<h>The leaked version said Mr. de Menezes was being restrained by an officer when he was shot by armed police.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="171" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>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. </t>
<h>Rising prices have helped make many people feel wealthier and thus more inclined to spend. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="176" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The measures currently in force include a travel ban on senior government figures, but France has invited Mr. Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris next month, angering several countries.</t>
<h>France angered a number of countries, by inviting Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="189" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The New-York based company said, Tuesday, that profits totaled a record $946 million, or 75 cents a share, in the January-March period, up from $794 million, or 61 cents a share, a year earlier.</t>
<h>Net income grew to $369 million, or 83 cents per share, in the January-March period from $291 million, or 65 cents per share, a year ago.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="190" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.  </t>
<h>Foreign oil reserves will be made available to the U.S. in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="191" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Springsteen performed 27 songs Monday night, including most of the 12 new songs from his latest release, &quot;Devils and Dust&quot;, which was recorded without the E Street Band.</t>
<h>Springsteen introduced some of the 12 new songs off his latest release, &quot;Devils and</h>
</pair>
<pair id="197" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>That police statement reinforced published reports, that eyewitnesses said de Menezes had jumped over the turnstile at Stockwell subway station and was wearing a padded jacket, despite warm weather.</t>
<h>However, the documents leaked to ITV News suggest that Menezes, an electrician, walked casually into the subway station and was wearing a light denim jacket.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="203" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Also ruled out, for the moment, is any tie-up with a new alliance of Social Democrat dissidents and former communists known as the Left Party, which garnered 8.7%.</t>
<h>It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="207" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry.</t>
<h>I am delighted and wish The Prince of Wales and Parker Bowles a happy life.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="210" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Security forces were on high alert after an election campaign in which more than 1,000 people, including seven election candidates, have been killed. </t>
<h>Security forces were on high alert after a campaign marred by violence. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="212" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The comments made by Wells today, regarding the commissioner of baseball, do not in any way reflect the views of the club, Sox said in a statement.</t>
<h>David Wells' comments drew a quick response from the players' union and the commissioner's office.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="218" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Personal computer maker, Gateway Inc., on Monday, lowered its 2005 revenue and earnings forecast, sending its shares plunging 11 percent, as pricing in the industry became increasingly cut-throat.</t>
<h>Gateway lowered its sales and earnings guidance for the year.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="228" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Felicity Huffman and Patricia Arquette became first-time Emmy winners as they received lead actress honors, while Tony Shalhoub and James Spader, once again, proved favorites in the best actor category.</t>
<h>Arquette, who plays a crime-solving psychic in NBC's &quot;Medium&quot;, won the best drama series actress award.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="230" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.  </t>
<h>An international oil agency will make 60 million barrels of oil and gasoline available to the marketplace. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="235" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The probe looked into the October 2000 shooting-deaths of 13 Arabs, during violent demonstrations in northern Israel that erupted days after the start of a Palestinian uprising.</t>
<h>Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="240" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Witching hour passed and Potter fans poured into bookshops around the world on Saturday, snatching up copies of the latest instalment in the series that promises to be the fastest-selling book in history.</t>
<h>Potter fans rushed to tills in order to purchase the book.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="247" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Hours earlier, Yasser Arafat called for an end to attacks against </t>
<h>Arafat condemned suicide bomb attacks inside Israel.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="249" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>She flew to Los Angeles last week, after her 74-year-old mother had a stroke, but is expected to return to Texas in a few days.</t>
<h>She recently left her camp, vowing to come back, to visit her mother who has just had a stroke.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="255" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.</t>
<h>The U.N. health agency has distanced itself from a top official's prediction that a global influenza pandemic could kill as many as 150 million people.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="260" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Nike Inc. said, Monday, that its first-quarter profit grew 32 percent, as the world's largest sneaker and athletic apparel company posted broad gains in sales and orders.  </t>
<h>Nike said that orders for delivery were up 11 percent from a year earlier, and it was optimistic about its growth prospects. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="265" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The job gains mean that President Bush can celebrate - albeit by a very fine margin - a net growth in jobs in the US economy in his first term in office.</t>
<h>President Bush's first term in office showed a net gain in payroll jobs.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="267" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The soldiers, who were said to have been wearing Arab headdress, were accused of firing at Iraqi police when stopped at a road block.  </t>
<h>The soldiers were driving a civilian car and were dressed in civilian clothes when a shooting took place between them and Iraqi patrols. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="268" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The jet was carrying 152 tourists from Martinique, returning home after a week in Panama, officials said.</t>
<h>The plane was returning to the French Caribbean island of Martinique, from Panama.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="269" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will  bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.</t>
<h>World leaders have condemned North Korea for pulling out of talks.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="270" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Pyongyang said there was no point in the talks since the US had termed North Korea an 'outpost of tyranny'.</t>
<h>The US labelled North Korea part of an 'axis of evil'.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="271" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Hurricane Katrina petroleum-supply outlook improved somewhat, yesterday, as U.S. and European governments agreed to release 2 million barrels a day, of oil and refined products, from their reserves.  </t>
<h>Offers by individual European governments, involved supplies of crude or refined oil products. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="274" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will  bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.</t>
<h>North Korea says it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons and is building more.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="282" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Martha Stewart, 64, is back, after serving five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a 2001 stock sale. </t>
<h>Martha Stewart was convicted of lying about a stock trade and served five months in prison.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="285" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Lebanon is in a period of mourning after a massive car bomb killed the former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, on Tuesday.</t>
<h>Mr. Hariri was killed in a bomb explosion. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="288" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.</t>
<h>Pope John Paul II died.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="291" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Kozlowski and the company's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, were sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.  </t>
<h>Two former bosses of US manufacturer, Tyco, have been sentenced to up to 25 years in jail for stealing more than $150m </h>
</pair>
<pair id="292" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>A prosecutor had urged a state judge to sentence Former Tyco International CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, to the maximum 15 to 30 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company.  </t>
<h>Ex-Tyco CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, received 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison, Monday, for his part in stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="301" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The renewed attention to the war came as peace activists, camping near the president's ranch, awaited a performance Sunday evening by peace movement icon Joan Baez.</t>
<h>Folk singer Joan Baez brought her latest anti-war message Sunday to President Bush's adopted hometown, supporting Iraq war protesters camping out near his ranch.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="303" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>A place of sorrow, after Pope John Paul II died, became a place of celebration, as Roman Catholic faithful gathered in downtown Chicago to mark the installation of new Pope Benedict XVI.</t>
<h>Pope Benedict XVI is the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="308" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>An Israeli judicial inquiry has ruled out prosecuting the police officers who shot dead 13 Israeli Arabs during a violent demonstration in 2000.</t>
<h>Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="310" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>China has taken delivery of the first section of a futuristic high-speed train which levitates above the track.</t>
<h>The train literally floats above the track.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="311" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The outlawed Basque political party in Spain, Batasuna, called, on Monday, parties in the Basque Autonomous Government to boycott the parliament decision to ban it.</t>
<h>Spain's Basque party calls for the boycott of a parliament decision.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="319" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The decision by French President, Jacques Chirac, to invite Robert Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris, in February, has angered those across Europe who want Zimbabwe's president to remain an international pariah.</t>
<h>France invited Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="320" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.  </t>
<h>The United States has asked member states of the International Energy Agency to provide oil. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="321" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city, within a week and a half, despite concerns about the short supply of drinking water and heavily polluted floodwaters.  </t>
<h>As many as 180,000 people could return within 10 days to a city that held 460,000 before Hurricane Katrina struck.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="323" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The 42-year-old actor was outside a movie theater in central London's Leicester Square, doing press interviews, Sunday, when a man squirted Cruise with a water pistol disguised as a microphone, London's Metropolitan Police said.</t>
<h>Cruise was in Leicester Square when he was squirted with water.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="326" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The focus on the engines and the fuel, stems from the pilot's radio call, shortly before the crash.</t>
<h>The pilot had been attempting an emergency landing, after both engines failed.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="327" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Basque separatist party Batasuna is widely regarded as the political wing of the Basque paramilitary group, ETA - a linkage it denies.</t>
<h>Batasuna denies it is the political wing of ETA.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="339" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Thousands of Shiite Muslims rallied Friday, in the southern city of Basra, to show support for Iraq's new constitution and the Shiite-dominated government. </t>
<h>Sunni Arabs say they're not ready to re-join the committee drafting Iraq's new constitution. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="348" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Clonaid scientist, Brigitte Boisselier, said the first human clone - a girl nicknamed Eve - was born on Thursday to an American mother.</t>
<h>Brigitte Boisselier announced that a cloned baby had been born.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="349" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health said that the plant was inspected in October, and cited for 15 safety violations, seven of which were considered serious.</t>
<h>The plant was inspected in October and cited for numerous safety violations. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="351" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, died last year in Iraq, started her antiwar demonstration along the roadside in Crawford, Texas, on Aug. 6, demanding to meet with the president.</t>
<h>Ms. Sheehan, whose son was killed last year in an attack in Iraq, left her camp Thursday, for Los Angeles to be with her mother, Shirley Miller, who suffered a stroke.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="359" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Chip giant, Intel, has set its sights on the digital living room with its own flavours of entertainment PCs designed to act like media hubs for the home.</t>
<h>Intel is vying for a key spot in the digital living room.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="361" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Bowles will take the title HRH Duchess of Cornwall, changing it to the Princess Consort, when Charles becomes King.</t>
<h>Bowles will take the title of Princess Consort.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="363" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>NASA estimated, Monday, that it will cost $104 billion to return astronauts to the moon, by 2018, in a new rocket that combines the space shuttle with the capsule of an earlier NASA era.  </t>
<h>The new space vehicle design uses shuttle rocket parts and an Apollo-style capsule.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="371" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>The new work went an extra step, suggesting that the connections that the stem cells form to help bridge the damaged spinal cord, are key to recovery.</t>
<h>The experiment, reported Monday, isn't the first to show that stem cells offer tantalizing hope for spinal cord injury. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="376" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said that Mahmoud Abbas is a man that Israel can do business with.</t>
<h>Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, may be someone Israel can talk with. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="382" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Tony Shalhoub won best actor in a comedy for &quot;Monk&quot;, and James Spader won best actor in a drama for &quot;Boston Legal.&quot;</t>
<h>James Spader won best actor for &quot;Boston Legal.&quot;  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="383" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>The 26-member International Energy Agency said, Friday, that member countries would release oil to help relieve the U.S. fuel crisis caused by Hurricane Katrina.  </t>
<h>The international community agreed to release stocks from reserves to help avert a fuel crisis threatening the U.S. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="390" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Over 400 tents were submerged, after a storm hit the Somerset site on Friday, the festival's opening day.</t>
<h>Many tents were overwhelmed after a storm hit the Somerset site on the festival's first day.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="393" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Thompson, a renegade journalist whose 'gonzo' style threw out any pretense at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said.</t>
<h>Thompson's 'gonzo' journalism throws objectivity out of the window. </h>
</pair>
<pair id="394" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Scientists had observed that mice with a defective Klotho gene aged prematurely and wondered if an enhanced gene would have an opposite effect.</t>
<h>Scientists have discovered a gene that produces a hormone that raises the life expectancy in mice by 30 percent.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="396" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Britain said, Friday, that it has barred cleric, Omar Bakri, from returning to the country from Lebanon, where he was released by police after being detained for 24 hours.</t>
<h>Bakri was briefly detained, but was released.  </h>
</pair>
<pair id="399" entailment="YES" task="SUM">
<t>Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation,  Loman in 'Death of a Salesman' came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry, has died.</t>
<h>Playwright Miller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Death of a Salesman', has died.</h>
</pair>
<pair id="400" entailment="NO" task="SUM">
<t>Then came the dozens of protesters who started camping out near Bush's ranch this month, led by a California mother who lost her son in the war and insists on speaking to the president.</t>
<h>FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley has also arrived in Texas, as has Becky Lourey, another mother who has lost her son in Iraq and a state senator in Minnesota</h>
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