A headline and article on Saturday about “Bridge Over the Wadi,” a documentary about a school for Jewish and Arab pupils shown on the PBS World channel on Sunday, misidentified the school’s location. It is in northern Israel, not on the West Bank. The article also referred incorrectly to the West Bank. While it is occupied by Israel, it does not belong to Israel. Link
Iraq was wrongly labelled as Iran on a map of the Middle East that accompanied a story headlined US claims North Korea helped build Syria reactor plant, page 2, April 25. 
Labrang monastery is in Xiahe, a city in northwestern China’s Gansu province. 
Campobello Island is part of New Brunswick. Due to an editing error, it was incorrectly described as being in the United States in a letter to the editor in yesterday’s newspaper. 
This story, published March 3, 2007 was corrected on March 15. Singapore Air is the first airline to put the A380 into commercial service. The original version of this story incorrectly reported Emirates is the first. Also Auckland is in New Zealand, not Australia. 
Mount Baldy, where Leonard Cohen spent time at a Buddhist retreat, is not in Greece, but in the San Gabriel mountains, about 40 miles from Los Angeles (Hail, hail, rock’n'roll, page 14, Film & Music, February 29).
Ethiopia: In a Feb. 25 commentary about the Ethiopian military’s actions against civilians, a reference was made to “Somalia’s Darfur region.” Darfur is in Sudan. Also, Ethiopia was misspelled in the headline as Ethiopa. 
Las Vegas is in Nevada, not California (In pictures competition, photograph 3, Statue of Liberty outside the New York casino in Las Vegas, page 95, Weekend, February 2). 
British Columbia was mistakenly named as a US area containing Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont when New England was what was meant (Weatherwatch, page 35, yesterday). 
In the broadcast version of this commentary, Daniel Schorr referred to a human rights activist having trouble delivering a petition to the American Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. According to The Washington Post, which reported the story, the incident occurred in Bahrain, not the United Arab Emirates. 
An article in Business Day on Tuesday about the sentencing of Conrad M. Black, the former media mogul who was convicted of fraud, misspelled the name of the town where he bought his first newspaper. It is Sherbrooke, Quebec — not Sherbooke. The article also misstated, in some editions, the proximity of the federal prison camp at Eglin Air Force Base, where Mr. Black is likely to serve his sentence, to his Palm Beach, Fla., home. It is 500 miles away, it is not “near.” 
NO WONDER geography needs more emphasis, not less, in Arkansas schools.Editor
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