TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: At times, adults tell children stories that carry important self-relevant lessons. For example, recently I listened in as a father and his 5-year-old son waited in the foyer of a synagogue for a Jewish New Year service to begin.

SOLUTION: At times, adults tell children stories that carry important self-relevant lessons. For example, I listened in as a father and his son waited for a Jewish New Year service.

PROBLEM: The agency also has a lauded history of activism. In response to its lawsuit in 1999, a judge ordered the Paterson Housing Authority to correct a defective relocation plan for residents at the Christopher Columbus Housing Development and remove all squatters and drug dealers.

SOLUTION: The agency also has a history of activism. In response to a 1999 lawsuit a judge ordered the Housing Authority to correct a plan for the Christopher Columbus Development and remove all squatters and dealers.

PROBLEM: In this trousers category, Thompson must share the limelight with Coleridge by virtue of the line in Kubla Khan: As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing.

SOLUTION:
Thompson share with Coleridge by virtue of the line in Kubla Khan:As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing