In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.

it is situated 44 miles -lrb- 71 km -rrb- northeast of pittsburgh , along the east bank of the allegheny river.
it is situated 44 miles northeast of pittsburgh , along east bank of allegheny river.

tobacco : in 1984 he wrote that nicotine has an addictiveness similar to that of heroin or cocaine.
in 1984 he wrote that nicotine has an addiction similar to that of heroin or cocaine.

there are currently over six hundred linux distributions.
presently , there are over six hundred kinds of linux.