Generate an explanation for the given claim using the provided supporting material from the paragraph. Please consider the following points while generating an output. 1) The claim will always have supporting proof in the paragraph, and the paragraph will have a clear point of view supporting the claim. 2) There can be instances where direct correlation to the claim is not available. Make use of the sentences in the paragraph to provide a corresponding output supporting the claim. 3) The explanation should be at least one and at most twelve sentences long.

[EX Q]: Paragraph: Members of the New York delegation, joined by first responders, survivors and family members, lamented an announcement by the Justice Department that the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is running low on money and future payments may be cut by up to 70 percent. Comedian Jon Stewart, a longtime advocate for 9/11 responders, called the Feb. 15 announcement by the fund’s special master “unconscionable” and said Congress has a moral obligation to step in. At a news conference at the Capitol, Stewart said it was “nonsense” that first responders and their families again have to “beg” Congress for money nearly 18 years after the attacks. “This is nonsense. This is theater. You know it and I know it,” Stewart said. “If the American people in their busy lives had any sense that these shenanigans were going on, they would be outraged.” He and other speakers urged Congress to act quickly to restore the fund and ensure it has enough money to pay benefits for the next 70 years — or as long as victims need it. Anything less than full and permanent funding is “shameful,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., adding the death toll from the 2001 attacks “is still growing.” “It should not be a fight to pass this bill again,” Gillibrand said. The collapse of the World Trade Center in September 2001 sent a cloud of thick dust billowing over Lower Manhattan. Fires burned for weeks. Thousands of construction workers, police officers, firefighters and others spent time working in the soot, often without proper respiratory protection. In the years since, many have seen their health decline, some with respiratory or digestive-system ailments that appeared almost immediately, others with illnesses that developed as they aged, including cancer. Nearly 40,000 people have applied to the federal fund for people with illnesses potentially related to being at the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon or Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the attacks. About 19,000 claims are pending. Nearly $5 billion in benefits have been awarded out of the $7.3 billion fund. Rupa Bhattacharyya, special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, said she was “painfully aware of the inequity” of the potential cuts, but said awarding some funds for every valid claim would be preferable to sending some legitimate claimants away empty-handed. Fund officials estimate it would take another $5 billion to pay pending claims and claims that officials anticipate will be submitted before the fund’s December 2020 deadline. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the cost of restoring the program is minimal compared to the cruelty of failing to do so. “A great nation cannot nickel-and-dime people that have sacrificed their health on our behalf,” he said. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., said the 9/11 attacks “were not just a New York event” or an East Coast event, but were an attack on all Americans. “This is a sea-to-shining-sea moment, a sea-to-shining sea promise, a sea-to-shining-sea obligation,” Gardner said. The victims’ fund should “not be extended for a moment but for a lifetime,” he added. Stewart, reverting to comic form, said the victims’ fund was “like a Starbucks card. We’re just asking to get a little more money.” Claim: Lawmakers, first responders sound alarm on 9/11 fund.
[EX A]: More than 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, first responders and their advocates were back at the Capitol Monday urging Congress to ensure that a victims’ compensation fund does not run out of money.

[EX Q]: Paragraph: The story mentions that the Internet-based program is a “low-cost” option for treating insomnia; however, nothing more specific regarding cost is provided. It is presumed that the site will be proprietary; if so, what are the expected usage fees? The story states that compared to the control group, the treatment group woke up fewer times, spent fewer minutes awake, and had an improved score; however, the reader is not given any quantitative data or context to determine if these improvements are really meaningful in a person’s life. The story does not mention any possible harms that may be associated with managing insomnia via an Internet-based program. For example, might people develop worsening insomnia because of reinforcement of bad habits? A comment regarding the lack of identifiable harms would have been sufficient. The story accurately described the methodology and the participants; although this could have been further improved by providing more information about the control group, namely, that they did receive any type of treatment for insomnia. Additionally, the story effectively conveyed that this was a small study with a fairly homogenous population. This story does not directly address the prevalence of insomnia, but the overall tone does not suggest disease-mongering. This story includes comments from two independent experts, as well as a study co-author. The writer also mentions that the study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. This story includes information on the benefits of cognitive behavioral therapy and working with a therapist for treating insomnia and briefly mentions sleep medications. The story states that this Internet-based program “could one day” be an option for treating insomnia, which suggests that it is not yet ready for prime time. The story conveyed that this is a novel treatment modality for insomnia. The story does not appear to rely on a press release and quotes multiple sources that appear to be from interviews. Claim: Internet-based therapy shows promise for insomnia
[EX A]: This was a generally well written and balanced story about a small exploratory study on a possible new therapy for insomnia. The story effectively describes the methodology and patient population and includes expert commentary from independent sources. The story also appropriately cautions that larger studies with a more diverse patient population are warranted to verify the results and determine their generalizability. While the story meets many of our criteria, it would have been greatly improved by providing the reader with quantitative data and some context to help determine if the results translated to any real, meaningful benefit in peoples’ lives. For example, information on the Insomnia Severity Index, which was used to measure efficacy of the Internet-based program, would have been helpful. A brief exploration of cost, and of any potential harms (or lack of), would also have substantially strengthened the piece.

[EX Q]: Paragraph: The FireWagon is equipped with Drier’s tools of the trade: a delicate torch, a small cylinder of propane and a stock of borosilicate — glass that can tolerate heat and is chemically inert. Drier frequently takes the portable lab-on-wheels around the city to demonstrate his passion: scientific glassblowing. But his real home base is his expansive shop in the lower level of the UW-Madison chemistry building, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Here, wearing special dark glasses and using a glassblowing technique called flame-working or lamp-working, Drier makes customized, highly specialized glassware used in cutting-edge research across campus: from chemistry to the departments of medical physics, geology, medicine, food science, molecular and civil engineering, material science, medical engineering, and more. “Definitely a lot of people,” request glassware, he said. “And a lot of work.” Drier’s craft is also showcased at the Madison Children’s Museum, where his Rube Goldberg-esque maze of scientific glassware hangs in a window called the “Sidewalk Surprise.” The piece can be viewed inside the museum’s free community concourse area and also from the street, and will be on display through summer. Drier built the glass bubble columns that are a permanent feature in the “Wayback” area of the museum’s second floor, as well. When he brings his FireWagon to the children’s museum, “the kids just love to watch — because it’s mesmerizing,” said museum exhibit designer and developer Nadia Niggli. “It almost feels like magic.” “It’s such a specialized art,” she said. “He’s got this interesting crossover between art and science. And here (with his ‘Sidewalk Surprise’), he’s using these serious, very functional pieces in a new, more playful way. It has a little of the ‘mad scientist’ feel to it.” Drier, for one, can’t believe his luck. As a scientific glassblower, he’s not just shaping glass, but inventing new processes. “How awesome is that,” he said, as he lit a gas blower and aimed a flame at a glass tube while doing an interview in his shop. “That’s why this job is so fantastic. This is a great job, and every day I give thanks.” Associate Professor of Chemistry Zach Wickens, who came to UW-Madison last fall, was partly lured here because the university has its own resident glassblower. Harvard University, where Wickens previously was a postdoctoral research scholar, does not. “It’s been amazing” to have a scientific glassblower on campus, said Wickens. Along with making a broad range of glassware for chemistry labs across the department, Drier “has been helping me get into a new area of chemistry that there isn’t commercial glassware for, where we’re using electricity to help run chemical reactions. And this lets us reduce chemical waste really dramatically. “I’m actually working with Tracy to design new glassware that we can use to quickly test these ideas,” Wickens said. “With this glassware, we’re going to be able to ask questions we couldn’t otherwise ask, and develop reactions we otherwise couldn’t develop. So it’s pretty profound. I don’t know what I would be doing without him.” Drier first got into glass as a kid, when his father brought home a how-to book from the library. It kindled an avid hobby for Drier, his father and his brother Tim. Tim dove into scientific glassblowing right out of high school, enrolling at Salem Community College in Alloway, New Jersey — the only college in the country offering a two-year degree in scientific glassblowing — and then moved to jobs at Kodak and Dow Chemical. Drier, instead, got a degree in paper engineering from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and went to work in the pulp and paper industry. At age 30, he quit and enrolled at Salem. “Our family always kind of worked with our hands. Engineering is fascinating, but at the end of the day you don’t have much to show,” said Drier, 55. “With glassblowing, you have something at the end of the day that you’ve done.” He came to UW-Madison in 2000 after working as a scientific glassblower at a chemical company in Milwaukee. Having a background in engineering isn’t essential, “but I think it’s what helped me get this job here,” he said. “Breaking things down, critical thinking, is definitely a plus. But also, creativity is a plus,” Drier said. “You have a drawing, and it doesn’t matter how you get there. That’s one of the nice things about this — there’s more than one way to do it.” Drier has become something of an ambassador for the field of scientific glassblowing. He takes his Wisconsin FireWagon to schools and works with students from the glass program at UW-Madison. He also presents papers and shares tips with fellow members of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society, or ASGS. “I’ll share anything that can be useful to the next guy,” he said. At UW-Madison, “I’m one guy here. I don’t know everything. So having the network to say, ‘Hey, Jimmy — I’ve never done these platinum seals. Can you give me something to work with?’ There are a number of books, but nothing beats having someone who’s done it before.” The approximately 500 ASGS members include about 200 who are professional scientific glassblowers, said Jim Cornell, ASGS office co-manager. He estimates about 40 or 50 work in universities. Drier is the only scientific glassblower employed at UW-Madison. The society’s membership also includes students, international members, independent glassblowers and even those who create “functional art” — glass paraphernalia that’s useful in a day when the legalization of medical marijuana is becoming more commonplace. On the science end of things, “there are not enough scientific glassblowers in this world,” said Drier, who makes the job look easy. That’s mainly thanks to “practice, practice, practice.” And patience. “That would be the thing — do you have patience? Because this thing will eat you alive if you don’t,” he said. “Glass breaks. For people watching, I would imagine it’s like watching paint dry. It’s a very slow process. Each of the steps is hand-work, and it does not go fast.” But Drier also loves the puzzles he must solve to turn a researcher’s ideas and diagrams into a working piece of the lab. “One of the beautiful things with this job, specifically, is the collaboration with the scientists,” he said. “That’s some serious science these guys are doing, state of the art, and I get to work with them. They tell me about it, and it’s exciting for me.” At the West Side home he shares with wife Amy Anderson, Drier has a shop in his garage for his main hobby: more glassblowing. “Honestly, what I do here helps me with what I do at home, and what I do at home helps me here,” he said. “This is the greatest job I’ve ever had. I can’t say enough about it,” Drier said. “And I think everybody should be a scientific glassblower.” ___ Information from: Wisconsin State Journal, http://www.madison.com/wsj Claim: Wisconsin glassblower customizes glassware for scientists.
[EX A]:
When Tracy Drier comes to Science Expeditions, the annual public open house held across the UW-Madison campus, he’ll arrive with a wealth of scientific glassblowing knowledge and, of course, his Wisconsin FireWagon.