TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: Your membership fee assures your receiving notices of exhibition openings, lectures, discounts for Saturday School and the Pre-College Workshop, and invitations to the Janus Ball, artists' dinners and other Friends only events. The year's upcoming shows are:

SOLUTION: This fee assures you are receiving notices of exhibition openings, lectures, and the pre-college Workshop, and invitations to Friends only events. The year's upcoming shows are:

PROBLEM: The double eagle came close to being melted down many times. The coin once again escaped destruction when it was moved from the Treasury Department vault in 7 World Trade Center eight months before the building collapsed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

SOLUTION: The double eagle coin escaped destruction again when it was moved from the Treasury Dept vault in 7 World Trade Center eight months before the building collapsed after 9/11 terrorist attack.

PROBLEM: And the fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real bear, a bear born in Canada who never relinquished his Canadian citizenship.

SOLUTION:
The fictional Winnie-the-Pooh was named for the real Canadian bear.