"Smoking removes your troubles and worries," says a 37-year-old female magazine editor, quoted approvingly on the Web site.

She approvingly quotes one senior psychiatrist as saying, "You cannot adhere to untruths without being immoral in some way."

(Burkett doesn't actually use that term herself, but approvingly quotes someone who does.)

However, Mr. Cho twice approvingly quoted a newspaper report that the risk is 50-50.

He approvingly quoted Bismarck's remark that all the Balkans were not worth the life of one of his soldiers.

Eliade approvingly quotes Malinowski's claim that a myth is "a narrative resurrection of a primeval reality."

Mikhail S. Gorbachev is quoted approvingly in the first issue of a glossy 24-page magazine published by House Republicans.

Mr. Zwick approvingly quotes a writing teacher's admonition that "plot is the meat the burglar throws the dog to get over the fence."

On March 21, the editorial page of The New York Times approvingly quoted a news report saying that the bill's prospects were "diminishing daily."