TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: On January 28, 1991, I attended the IUPUI ceremony which remembered the Challenger astronauts and presented awards to three IUPUI Challenger Scholars and a new award, the Ronald McNair Challenger Scholar. Our sense of joy was tempered by the undeniable intrusion of the war in the Persian Gulf.

SOLUTION: On January 28, 1991, I went the IUPUI ceremony which remembered the Challenger astronauts and gave three awards to IUPUI Challenger Scholars with the new Mcnair award. This joyous event was tempered by the Gulf war.

PROBLEM: Some 20 km (12 miles) from Guarda is tiny Belmonte, with a carefully restored 13th-century castle and Jewish Quarter, home to this day to a Jewish community.

SOLUTION: Some 20 km (12 miles) from Guarda is Belmonte a restored 13th-century castle and Jewish Quarter.

PROBLEM: The 300 - member SSCP is the only group within the APA to have taken a formal stance against prescription privileges.

SOLUTION:
SSCP is the only group within the APA to have taken against prescription privileges.