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Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about sniper shootings on Indiana roads misstated the location of a fatal attack last month. It was near Seymour, southeast of Indianapolis, not near Muncie, northeast of Indianapolis. (Go to Article)
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An article on Saturday about Eric N. Olsen, a substitute teacher accused of molesting in Southern California, referred incorrectly to the jurisdiction of a police spokeswoman, Diane Galindo, who said Mr. Olsen admitted molesting girls over the past three years. The jurisdiction, Ontario, is a city, not a county. (Go to Article)
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A picture on July 24 with an obituary of Reathel Odum, secretary to Bess Truman when she was first lady, was published in error. The photograph, released by The Associated Press in 1945 and identified as Miss Odum, was actually Jane Lingo (a friend of President Truman’s daughter, Margaret). (Go to Article)
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A front-page article on Sunday about a decision by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman to shift the focus of his campaign from getting out the vote to running new advertisements omitted credit for the radio program that first reported a comment by Senator Frank R. Lautenberg that Mr. Lieberman should not run as an independent if he loses the Democratic primary in Connecticut by a double-digit margin. He made the remark on Friday on “The Diane Rehm Show’’ on WAMU in Washington. (Go to Article)
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An article in some copies on July 16 about neighbors whose apartments were damaged when the Upper East Side town house of Dr. Nicholas Bartha exploded misstated the number of passers-by injured. (The error was repeated in an article on July 17 about the death of the doctor, who was suspected of blowing up the building.) Four passers-by were hurt, not five. (Go to Article)
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A picture caption with an article on Monday about plans to tear down the Mulford Gardens public housing complex in Yonkers and replace it with new housing misstated the given name of a resident. She is Zaryah Allen, not Zarya. (Go to Article)
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The Advertising column in Business Day on Thursday, about videos used to promote books, misidentified the person who wrote the lyrics for a song included in the book “Variable Star,” and misidentied the person who will sing that song in the video being prepared to publicize the book. Spider Robinson, one of the authors of the book, wrote the lyrics, not David Crosby, who wrote the music. And it is Mr. Robinson who will perform the song, not Mr. Crosby. The article also omitted one of the authors of “Variable Star.” In addition to Mr. Robinson, it was written by Robert A. Heinlein. (Go to Article)
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An art review in Weekend on Friday of “Yes Bruce Nauman” at the Zwirner & Wirth gallery in Manhattan misspelled the surnames of two artists in the exhibition. They are Stefan Brüggemann, not Bruggeman, and Mungo Thomson, not Thompson. (Go to Article)
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An article in The Arts on Thursday about the television documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” referred imprecisely to “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?” a song on the soundtrack. While the song was widely associated with Louis Armstrong, it was written by Louis Alter and Edgar DeLange. (Go to Article)
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A picture in Science Times yesterday with The Doctor’s World column, about the history of the International AIDS Conference, was published in error. The 1994 International AIDS Conference was in Yokohama, Japan. The picture was of demonstrators at another AIDS conference, held in Paris the same year. (Go to Article)
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The Side Effects column in Science Times yesterday, about animal migration, misstated the educational affiliation for Scott A. Shaffer, who reported the longest electronically recorded animal migration — 40,000 miles in a year for seabirds called sooty shearwaters. He is at the University of California, Santa Cruz, not the University of California, Davis. (Go to Article)
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