TASK DEFINITION: You are given a paragraph, with numbered sentences, and a question. Write the numbers of the sentences needed to answer the given question. Separate multiple sentence numbers with a comma (", "). E.g. "1, 2" would be the correct response if Sent 1 and Sent 2 are needed to answer the given question (do not include sentences that contain no information that is necessary to answer the question). Sort the sentence numbers in an increasing order (i.e., '1, 2', instead of '2, 1'). Your answer should not contain anything than the sentence numbers separated by a comma (e.g. '1, 2, 3, 4'). The given question requires more than one sentence to answer. So, your answer must contain at least one comma (", ").
PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: The Cole attack prompted renewed consideration of what could be done about al Qaeda.
Sent 2: According to Clarke, Berger upbraided DCITenet so sharply after the Cole attack-repeatedly demanding to know why the United States had to put up with such attacks-that Tenet walked out of a meeting of the principals.
Sent 3: The CIA got some additional covert action authorities, adding several other individuals to the coverage of the July 1999 Memorandum of Notification that allowed the United States to develop capture operations against al Qaeda leaders in a variety of places and circumstances.
Sent 4: Tenet developed additional options, such as strengthening relationships with the Northern Alliance and the Uzbeks and slowing recent al Qaeda-related activities in Lebanon.
Sent 5: On the diplomatic track, Berger agreed on October 30, 2000, to let the State Department make another approach toTaliban Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Jalil about expelling Bin Ladin.
Sent 6: The national security advisor ordered that the U.S.message"be stern and foreboding."Sent 7: This warning was similar to those issued in 1998 and 1999.
Sent 8: Meanwhile, the administration was working with Russia on new UN sanctions against Mullah Omar's regime.
Sent 9: President Clinton told us that before he could launch further attacks on al Qaeda in Afghanistan, or deliver an ultimatum to the Taliban threatening strikes if they did not immediately expel Bin Ladin, the CIA or the FBI had to be sure enough that they would "be willing to stand up in public and say, we believe that he [Bin Ladin] did this."Sent 10: He said he was very frustrated that he could not get a definitive enough answer to do something about the Cole attack.
Sent 11: Similarly, Berger recalled that to go to war, a president needs to be able to say that his senior intelligence and law enforcement officers have concluded who is responsible.
Sent 12: He recalled that the intelligence agencies had strong suspicions, but had reached "no conclusion by the time we left office that it was al Qaeda.".
Question: What was the US message to the Taliban Deputy Foreign Minister Regarding?.

SOLUTION: 5, 6.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: For more than half a century, the Passaic County Legal Aid Society has fought on behalf of the county's poor, in disputes ranging from housing to child custody to public assistance.
Sent 2: But for the last several years it has often done that job poorly, according to state and federal officials.
Sent 3: And barring a long-shot legal victory, as of Jan. 1 the autonomous county office will be replaced by a new agency whose administrators will report to a director based in Jersey City.
Sent 4: Federal legal aid officials drew up the new service area uniting Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic counties in June, insisting the change will trim administrative costs without compromising services.
Sent 5: The Passaic County office and its supporters see it differently.
Sent 6: They say top decision-makers will be too far from the individuals and non-profit agencies that rely on the office for help.
Sent 7: And in a federal lawsuit, the agency's leadership argues that a merger would jeopardize its educational programs and minority hiring efforts, and that its imposition amounts to bureaucratic bullying by state and federal officials.
Sent 8: Those same officials have repeatedly accused the Passaic County office of mismanagement.
Sent 9: Reviews since 1995 have found evidence of shoddy accounting, poor morale, excessive staff turnover, and double counting of cases - and alleged that the office made limited efforts to rectify the problems.
Sent 10: At times in recent years, the office has received its state and federal funding on a month-to-month basis, which one federal official called "one step short of defunding."Sent 11: Leaders of the county agency, which employs 14 attorneys, five paralegals, and nine support staff at offices in Paterson and Wanaque, say officials have "greatly exaggerated" the office's problems, which they call mostly bureaucratic.
Sent 12: "Just let them argue that their [merger] plan makes sense," Maxim Thorne, the office's deputy director, said of the higher-level legal aid officials.
Sent 13: "They could never replicate our services or equal the accumulated value of this office."Sent 14: Over the summer, the office reapplied for a federal grant to serve Passaic County in the coming year.
Sent 15: But Legal Services Corp. in Washington rejected the application, saying it failed to address the service needs of the entire tri-county area - a requirement under the new rules.
Sent 16: By mid-December, the federal body is expected to award Passaic County's federal funding - about $385,000 this year - to Northeast New Jersey Legal Services, the tri-county agency.
Sent 17: State funds of about $1.6 million could follow, although Thorne noted the state appropriated $927,000 of that amount through June 2003.
Sent 18: The state Treasury Department's legal services representative did not return repeated calls for comment.
Question: Why is there need for an alternative to the Passaic County Legal Aid Society?.

SOLUTION: 2, 4, 9, 15.

PROBLEM: Paragraph- Sent 1: "What goes up must come down."Sent 2: You have probably heard that statement before.
Sent 3: At one time this statement was true, but no longer.
Sent 4: Since the 1960s, we have sent many spacecraft into space.
Sent 5: Some are still traveling away from Earth.
Sent 6: So it is possible to overcome gravity.
Sent 7: Do you need a giant rocket to overcome gravity?
Sent 8: No, you actually overcome gravity every day.
Sent 9: Think about when you climb a set of stairs.
Sent 10: When you do, you are overcoming gravity.
Sent 11: What if you jump on a trampoline?
Sent 12: You are overcoming gravity for a few seconds.
Sent 13: Everyone can overcome gravity.
Sent 14: You just need to apply a force larger than gravity.
Sent 15: Think about that the next time you jump into the air.
Sent 16: You are overcoming gravity for a brief second.
Sent 17: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Sent 18: Eventually, gravity will win the battle.
Question: Can a person overcome gravity?.

SOLUTION:
11, 12, 13, 15.