Noted & quoted.

• Position: SOUNDBITES

'Tell all--I see them on the other side. It wasn't bad, I just went to sleep.'

--Martin Toler Jr., 51, in a farewell note to toyed ones written on the back of an insurance form, before dying with 11 other miners after an explosion at a coal mine in Sago, W. Va.

[The New York Times, January 6]

'My son said to me: "I don't want to be on the list. I want to fly and see my grandma."

--Sijollie Allen, whose son, Edward, 4, was initially barred from boarding a Continental Airlines flight in Houston because his name matched a name on the government's "no-fly" list...