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Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.	The snoop figured out everything he needed to know that week.	neutral
Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.	Heston has had a hardline stance on gun rights from the beginning.	contradiction
I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.	The author thinks that drug addicts should not be sent to prison.	neutral
Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.	Republicans like Gramm want tax reductions.	entailment
After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.	Smiley was critical of the story Huckleberry Finn.	entailment
Earlier, Novak actually ask ed Carlson if he could interrupt!	Carlson graciously allowed Novak to interrupt the meeting with a long story.	neutral
Another way to generate profits is to buy up hospitals cheap--though regulation and competition have made it harder to lowball purchase prices.	An easy way to make money is to buy a hospital for a cheap price.	entailment
Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?	The statement is designed to get people to recognize that they need to act responsibly.	entailment
He frequently quotes Ronald Reagan.	It was not unusual for him to repeat things a politician said.	entailment
If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.	If we tried to keep the price of gold from going lower it would lead to deflation.	contradiction
It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour.	Linda Ashland is a scientist.	contradiction
It was simply to say the industry is prepared to make revolutionary changes in its behavior if it gets some protection from these giant suits, and this is a good deal for the public.	The industry refuses to make any changes.	contradiction
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.	The flourishing theater and its staff remain open to this day.	contradiction
This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.	This is mentioned in the 1999 edition in great detail.	contradiction
The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.	Honda Acccord and Toyota Camrys are some of the least likely models to be taken.	contradiction
The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .	The Washington Post published an article about Rachel Ray.	contradiction
More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.	Huang Yong Ping is a Chinese artist who was caught abroad.	entailment
To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.	Magnet schools did not maintain set-asides for black students.	contradiction
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, too, is working on behalf of the companies involved in the settlement, and he deserves as much scorn as his Democratic counterparts.	Haley Barbour was once the chairman of the Republican National Committee.	entailment
Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace.	Monopolies create their own rules in the marketplace.	contradiction
But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.	The Wall Street Journal has made a statement regarding a conspiracy posited by conservative theorists.	entailment
It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes.	Reducing travel time is cheap and free.	contradiction
Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.	The book will never arrive.	contradiction
Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e.	Firearms and destructive devices can be brandished by individuals.	entailment
You just have to be interesting.	It is necessary to be engaging.	entailment
Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.	People like to discuss chaos and things that are caused by chaos.	entailment
They call it tantric sex.	This article doesn't reference sexual content.	contradiction
The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.	most international banks are owned by Jews.	neutral
Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.	Varnedoe did not analyze Pollock's pallette.	contradiction
They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing.	What is learned from online discussions is meaningful to learn.	neutral
Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.	Rich foreign executives never get kidnapped in Latin America, let alone by gangs.	contradiction
Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).	The designs will not appeal to the masses.	entailment
The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).	This kind of stuff is incredibly rare.	contradiction
The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).	HBO refused to make the new film.	contradiction
The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance.	Clinton refuses to speak any further on the matter.	neutral
In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.	Time and Newsweek magazine make a lot of money.	neutral
The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true democratic hero of our age.	The man is celebrated in his hometown.	neutral
Yeats wants to leave his traces/ On Munster grass and Connemara skies.	Yeats' poetry centered upon the mankind's role in polluting nature and the negative impacts from war.	neutral
The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.	The Post were watching TCM last month's entertainment	neutral
On Wednesday , NBC sinks to new lows with The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?	NBC reached new highs because of The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us.	contradiction
None exploited pig as an epithet for policeman.	To them, a pig was the filthiest, most disgusting name you could call someone.	neutral
Now along comes PK to blame men.	PK identifies as a man and so does the author.	neutral
A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.	a professor from Germany thinks she's nailed down William Shakespeare's identity.	entailment
Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull).	The symbol of hooves were used throughout the story.	contradiction
Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read.	This is the first time Plotz has written in this topic.	neutral
In fact, the immediate result of the trials was to widen the breach between Haywood (who became increasingly radical) and his more cautious WFM associates (who wound up pulling back from the revolutionary IWW).	While the WFM associates pulled back from the IWW, Haywood became even closer to them.	neutral
I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.	John La Care would get offended when people mispronounced his name.	neutral
Despite all the completely compelling arguments offered in the preceding paragraphs, it would be silly and dishonest to insist that	The arguments were based upon verifiable facts.	neutral
What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.	Brazile was trying to sneak in policy.	entailment
So we call impotence erectile dysfunction, baldness hypotrichosis, and so on.	Many prefer the medical term over more common nomenclature.	neutral
The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out.	The ending of the book was appropriate considering its content.	neutral
Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.	Kindleberger thinks that introducing global financial markets would be no easy task.	entailment
And every tournament game receives this treatment.	There are no games happening during this tournament.	contradiction
Falwell, I had just finished reading a novelistic treatment of these events, Assassins , which is subtitled Jerusalem, Antichrist . Assassins is the sixth book in the Left Behind series, left behind referring to those unfortunate nonevangelical Christians who are not taken up to heaven in the Rapture--the opening act in God's end days plan--and are forced to contend with the Antichrist's evil reign on Earth.	The Left Behind series is very successful.	neutral
As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!	Sperm whales must surface every 30 minutes for air.	contradiction
But my point Who's going to hire him?	Every last employer on the planet Earth wants to hire him.	contradiction
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.	Allergies have no impact on an organism.	contradiction
The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too.	The best medical care is acquired by allowing patients to sue insurers.	neutral
An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades.	The Hale-Bopp comet is expected to be quite the show.	entailment
On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome.	It is a good thing to govern much like the Antoninette's did in the past.	neutral
He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate.	The impeachment has a 0% chance of happening.	contradiction
The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival.	Group selection is the least extreme example of the concept.	contradiction
First Build the prototype.	The prototype is necessary for all future designs.	neutral
He was a very spiritual man, seeor . Some of the birds, however, would just fly straight up and dive down into the ground, embedding their beaks like the Daffy Duck of the gringo cartoon features.	The spiritual man is of African descent.	neutral
But Press didn't call anyone a racist.	Press felt stated that the itnerviewer was racist.	contradiction
24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox commentaries on politics, and Culturebox on ...	the Slate has structured improvements.	entailment
I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.	The country was in a period of great prosperity at that time.	contradiction
is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.	The article didn't accept the number that is available because they disagreed with their methodology.	neutral
The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.	The Vatican authorizes anybody who wants to minister to gay people.	contradiction
It invests heavily in research and development.	it funds the research and development by a large amount.	entailment
Other no story line, cheap puns, and heavy-handed sexual innuendo.	the story line here was overall poor.	entailment
The Other Side of the Rainbow	The rainbow's other side could be seen from a specific angle.	neutral
They can result from ordinary events happening to people who are receptive, appreciative, attuned to what is happening around them.	There are excellent results for people who are receptive and appreciative.	neutral
But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.	All political employees should act according to the tenants of Morrisism.	neutral
The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders.	Most of the people at the White House party worked for tech companies.	neutral
Since all these are changes in how we live, not anything innate, we have to conclude that what we are describing here are effects of environment, not genes.	Depending on what changes are made, some changes could be the effects of physiology.	neutral
The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.	The international community actually chose not to step in, fearing that it would result in an even greater lose of life.	neutral
' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.	The author is very certain in their feelings about wanting the violence to end.	entailment
The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared.	Reforming the organizations on K Street can be done in a straightforward manner.	entailment
Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations?	It is not clear what equal opportunity could mean to small states.	entailment
Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.	Allergy treatment technology is progressing well.	neutral
We know that Sullivan believes in him (her?	Sullivan makes his support known to the individual.	neutral
(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.	Their penises were limp.	entailment
The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).	HBO helped make the film Universoul Circus.	entailment
Unless Wanamaker was willing to pay double for reaching the right half of the people, his total ad spending would go down and not up.	Wanamaker gets all his ads for free.	contradiction
A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.	The uncritical media was not blamed.	contradiction
The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright.	Madeline Albright was a topic Hillary Clinton repeatedly brought up in her candid comments for USA Today.	contradiction
And so when I picked up a copy of Bionomics , the first thing I did was check out the author's treatment of my heroes and of what I knew to have been the important . His record was Not one of the right people was mentioned, not one of the key developments discussed.	Bionomics was the text that was taught in all classrooms.	neutral
The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.	E-rate subsidies allowed for several Internet start-ups to emerge in the 1990's.	neutral
As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.	Lobbyists do not position themselves politically and simply look out for their own interests.	contradiction
Of course, the magnitude of the threats faced by the United States bears no fixed relation to the size of our economy.	One such threat the U.S. faces is that of a fluctuating economy.	neutral
Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies.	That one friend of mine is named Gary.	neutral
All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else).	The mob's young guns know better than to get involved in steroid use themselves.	contradiction
Idealists don't like the way it's being fought.	Idealists have suggested a different avenue to approach the fight.	neutral
And what, exactly, is the line between stalking and not stalking, anyway?	Some people see the line between stalking and not stalking differently.	neutral
Every computer Apple makes costs a lot to make.	Apple computers are cheap to make.	contradiction
that's odd.	That is very strange.	entailment
(Click for more on the U.S. role in that restriction.)	the U.S. has held the restriction for 27 years.	neutral
I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.	I wanted it to have additional commentary and voice-over narration.	entailment
It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line.	Rogue states' international compliance depends on industrialized nations effectively monitoring them, and how tough their economic sanctions are.	entailment

Within a week the snoop had discovered his unlisted phone numbers, bank balances, stock holdings, and salary, as well as the phone numbers of everyone he calls.

The snoop figured out everything he needed to know that week.

neutral

Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.

Heston has had a hardline stance on gun rights from the beginning.

contradiction

I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.

The author thinks that drug addicts should not be sent to prison.

neutral

Republicans like Gramm beat up the IRS and promise endless tax reductions while bringing home pork projects to their constituents.

Republicans like Gramm want tax reductions.

entailment

After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.

Smiley was critical of the story Huckleberry Finn.

entailment

Earlier, Novak actually ask ed Carlson if he could interrupt!

Carlson graciously allowed Novak to interrupt the meeting with a long story.

neutral

Another way to generate profits is to buy up hospitals cheap--though regulation and competition have made it harder to lowball purchase prices.

An easy way to make money is to buy a hospital for a cheap price.

entailment

Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?

The statement is designed to get people to recognize that they need to act responsibly.

entailment

He frequently quotes Ronald Reagan.

It was not unusual for him to repeat things a politician said.

entailment

If we had tried to keep the price of gold from rising, this would have required a massive decline in the prices of practically everything else--deflation on a scale not seen since the Depression.

If we tried to keep the price of gold from going lower it would lead to deflation.

contradiction

It was about astrologer Linda Ashland's warning that the president needed to postpone his noon swearing in because of adverse astral influences at that hour.

Linda Ashland is a scientist.

contradiction

It was simply to say the industry is prepared to make revolutionary changes in its behavior if it gets some protection from these giant suits, and this is a good deal for the public.

The industry refuses to make any changes.

contradiction

Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.

The flourishing theater and its staff remain open to this day.

contradiction

This is mentioned in the 1999 edition, but only in passing.

This is mentioned in the 1999 edition in great detail.

contradiction

The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.

Honda Acccord and Toyota Camrys are some of the least likely models to be taken.

contradiction

The Washington Post predicts that the arrest will remind other suspected war criminals not to travel abroad .

The Washington Post published an article about Rachel Ray.

contradiction

More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.

Huang Yong Ping is a Chinese artist who was caught abroad.

entailment

To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.

Magnet schools did not maintain set-asides for black students.

contradiction

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, too, is working on behalf of the companies involved in the settlement, and he deserves as much scorn as his Democratic counterparts.

Haley Barbour was once the chairman of the Republican National Committee.

entailment

Because, despite its monopoly power, Microsoft remains subject to the laws of the marketplace.

Monopolies create their own rules in the marketplace.

contradiction

But the Wall Street Journal says there is still no evidence to confirm conservative theorists' suspicions of a conspiracy between Chinese intelligence agents, the Lippo Group, and John Huang.

The Wall Street Journal has made a statement regarding a conspiracy posited by conservative theorists.

entailment

It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes.

Reducing travel time is cheap and free.

contradiction

Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.

The book will never arrive.

contradiction

Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e.

Firearms and destructive devices can be brandished by individuals.

entailment

You just have to be interesting.

It is necessary to be engaging.

entailment

Mayhem, family collapse, the occasional terrorist bomb, mad government policies, human platitudes--in this pleasant springtime of 1997, these, as Roth renders them, do seem to be everyone's favorite topics of conversation.

People like to discuss chaos and things that are caused by chaos.

entailment

They call it tantric sex.

This article doesn't reference sexual content.

contradiction

The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.

most international banks are owned by Jews.

neutral

Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.

Varnedoe did not analyze Pollock's pallette.

contradiction

They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing.

What is learned from online discussions is meaningful to learn.

neutral

Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.

Rich foreign executives never get kidnapped in Latin America, let alone by gangs.

contradiction

Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).

The designs will not appeal to the masses.

entailment

The reality, though, is that this kind of stuff still happens all the time (even though eventually everyone does seem to get caught).

This kind of stuff is incredibly rare.

contradiction

The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).

HBO refused to make the new film.

contradiction

The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance.

Clinton refuses to speak any further on the matter.

neutral

In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.

Time and Newsweek magazine make a lot of money.

neutral

The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true democratic hero of our age.

The man is celebrated in his hometown.

neutral

Yeats wants to leave his traces/ On Munster grass and Connemara skies.

Yeats' poetry centered upon the mankind's role in polluting nature and the negative impacts from war.

neutral

The Post wonders if they were watching last month when TCM featured Escape from Alcatraz, I am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, and The Great Escape.

The Post were watching TCM last month's entertainment

neutral

On Wednesday , NBC sinks to new lows with The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us?

NBC reached new highs because of The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us.

contradiction

None exploited pig as an epithet for policeman.

To them, a pig was the filthiest, most disgusting name you could call someone.

neutral

Now along comes PK to blame men.

PK identifies as a man and so does the author.

neutral

A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.

a professor from Germany thinks she's nailed down William Shakespeare's identity.

entailment

Throughout the story, Ellison uses the symbol of horns, investing them with a number of meanings relating to sexual desire (the horny young boys), artistic creation (the instrument of jazz), and masculinity (the symbol of a bull).

The symbol of hooves were used throughout the story.

contradiction

Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read.

This is the first time Plotz has written in this topic.

neutral

In fact, the immediate result of the trials was to widen the breach between Haywood (who became increasingly radical) and his more cautious WFM associates (who wound up pulling back from the revolutionary IWW).

While the WFM associates pulled back from the IWW, Haywood became even closer to them.

neutral

I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.

John La Care would get offended when people mispronounced his name.

neutral

Despite all the completely compelling arguments offered in the preceding paragraphs, it would be silly and dishonest to insist that

The arguments were based upon verifiable facts.

neutral

What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.

Brazile was trying to sneak in policy.

entailment

So we call impotence erectile dysfunction, baldness hypotrichosis, and so on.

Many prefer the medical term over more common nomenclature.

neutral

The book's plot (about a man's anonymous love letters to his girlfriend) is said to be trite, and the ending is called a cop out.

The ending of the book was appropriate considering its content.

neutral

Another part of the answer--one that Kindleberger suggested two decades ago--is that to introduce global financial markets into a world of merely national monetary authorities is, in a very real sense, to walk a tightrope without a net.

Kindleberger thinks that introducing global financial markets would be no easy task.

entailment

And every tournament game receives this treatment.

There are no games happening during this tournament.

contradiction

Falwell, I had just finished reading a novelistic treatment of these events, Assassins , which is subtitled Jerusalem, Antichrist . Assassins is the sixth book in the Left Behind series, left behind referring to those unfortunate nonevangelical Christians who are not taken up to heaven in the Rapture--the opening act in God's end days plan--and are forced to contend with the Antichrist's evil reign on Earth.

The Left Behind series is very successful.

neutral

As Melville pointed out, if a sperm whale can spend more than an hour swimming at depths of up to 6,000 feet, and a sperm whale is composed mostly of gas (air-filled lungs and blubber), then Boyle's law would dictate that, as Spruch puts it, a whale of regulation size at the surface should, at the pressures a thousand fathoms down, decrease its volume to the size of a bathtub!

Sperm whales must surface every 30 minutes for air.

contradiction

But my point Who's going to hire him?

Every last employer on the planet Earth wants to hire him.

contradiction

And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.

Allergies have no impact on an organism.

contradiction

The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too.

The best medical care is acquired by allowing patients to sue insurers.

neutral

An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades.

The Hale-Bopp comet is expected to be quite the show.

entailment

On the contrary, he shows how educated elites like himself and Molly Munger are fighting against the Marie Antoinette syndrome.

It is a good thing to govern much like the Antoninette's did in the past.

neutral

He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate.

The impeachment has a 0% chance of happening.

contradiction

The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival.

Group selection is the least extreme example of the concept.

contradiction

First Build the prototype.

The prototype is necessary for all future designs.

neutral

He was a very spiritual man, seeor . Some of the birds, however, would just fly straight up and dive down into the ground, embedding their beaks like the Daffy Duck of the gringo cartoon features.

The spiritual man is of African descent.

neutral

But Press didn't call anyone a racist.

Press felt stated that the itnerviewer was racist.

contradiction

24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox commentaries on politics, and Culturebox on ...

the Slate has structured improvements.

entailment

I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous.

The country was in a period of great prosperity at that time.

contradiction

is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.

The article didn't accept the number that is available because they disagreed with their methodology.

neutral

The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.

The Vatican authorizes anybody who wants to minister to gay people.

contradiction

It invests heavily in research and development.

it funds the research and development by a large amount.

entailment

Other no story line, cheap puns, and heavy-handed sexual innuendo.

the story line here was overall poor.

entailment

The Other Side of the Rainbow

The rainbow's other side could be seen from a specific angle.

neutral

They can result from ordinary events happening to people who are receptive, appreciative, attuned to what is happening around them.

There are excellent results for people who are receptive and appreciative.

neutral

But it is the web of easy evasions that is the essence of Morrisism, both in his politico past and in his Augustinian present.

All political employees should act according to the tenants of Morrisism.

neutral

The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders.

Most of the people at the White House party worked for tech companies.

neutral

Since all these are changes in how we live, not anything innate, we have to conclude that what we are describing here are effects of environment, not genes.

Depending on what changes are made, some changes could be the effects of physiology.

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The book that resulted, Bosnia and the Failure of the West , is an unrelenting indictment of the international community's inability--or unwillingness--to step in and stop the killing.

The international community actually chose not to step in, fearing that it would result in an even greater lose of life.

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' Tim, I strongly believe we need a simultaneous withdrawal of the Serbian aggressive forces, have a stopping of the bombing, and an insertion of international police-keeping force.

The author is very certain in their feelings about wanting the violence to end.

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The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared.

Reforming the organizations on K Street can be done in a straightforward manner.

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Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations?

It is not clear what equal opportunity could mean to small states.

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Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.

Allergy treatment technology is progressing well.

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We know that Sullivan believes in him (her?

Sullivan makes his support known to the individual.

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(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.

Their penises were limp.

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The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.).

HBO helped make the film Universoul Circus.

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Unless Wanamaker was willing to pay double for reaching the right half of the people, his total ad spending would go down and not up.

Wanamaker gets all his ads for free.

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A Time sidebar blames the uncritical media for promoting the drugs in the war against fat.

The uncritical media was not blamed.

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The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright.

Madeline Albright was a topic Hillary Clinton repeatedly brought up in her candid comments for USA Today.

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And so when I picked up a copy of Bionomics , the first thing I did was check out the author's treatment of my heroes and of what I knew to have been the important . His record was Not one of the right people was mentioned, not one of the key developments discussed.

Bionomics was the text that was taught in all classrooms.

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The Internet e-rate subsidies, as they're known, were authorized under the 1996 Telecommunications Act and are funded with new taxes on long-distance telephone companies, the size of each company's contribution depending on its market share.

E-rate subsidies allowed for several Internet start-ups to emerge in the 1990's.

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As one Washington PR person explains, these cases are often marketed to the state attorneys general by corporate and public-interest lobbyists.

Lobbyists do not position themselves politically and simply look out for their own interests.

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Of course, the magnitude of the threats faced by the United States bears no fixed relation to the size of our economy.

One such threat the U.S. faces is that of a fluctuating economy.

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Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies.

That one friend of mine is named Gary.

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All that's missing is the steroids (out-of-control steroid use by the mob's young guns is what's killing the mafia as much as anything else).

The mob's young guns know better than to get involved in steroid use themselves.

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Idealists don't like the way it's being fought.

Idealists have suggested a different avenue to approach the fight.

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And what, exactly, is the line between stalking and not stalking, anyway?

Some people see the line between stalking and not stalking differently.

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Every computer Apple makes costs a lot to make.

Apple computers are cheap to make.

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that's odd.

That is very strange.

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(Click for more on the U.S. role in that restriction.)

the U.S. has held the restriction for 27 years.

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I almost wish she'd included more voice-over narration, more commentary on the things that, as a filmmaker, she hasn't learned to bring out.

I wanted it to have additional commentary and voice-over narration.

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It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line.

Rogue states' international compliance depends on industrialized nations effectively monitoring them, and how tough their economic sanctions are.

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