Noted & quoted.

• Position: Soundbites

'Happy Heats provide kids with the nutrients they need. From the emotional. side, it really does help them get better.'

--Ken Barun, a McDonald's vice president, on the benefits of having branches of the fast-food chain in hospitals. (The New York Times, Oct. 26)

'It's too late now, but I still think it's wrong.'

--Josef Durr, a Green Party official in Germany, on his concerns about the opening next spring of the InterContinental Berchtesgaden, an upscale resort near the grounds of Adolf Hitter's onetime mountain retreat. (The New York...