Posts Tagged ‘new york’

Fuzzy numbers etc.

An article on Monday about the speedy Florida State cornerback Michael Ray Garvin misstated, in some editions, the distance that light travels in 12-hundredths of a second, or the difference between Garvin’s fastest unofficial 40-yard dash time (4.18 seconds) and the best performance by a player at this year’s N.F.L. scouting combine (4.30). In that [...]

Editors’ Note

A front-page article on March 19 about why many medical students find lucrative specialty fields like dermatology more attractive than general medicine paraphrased comments by several people but put the paraphrases between quotation marks, a violation of The Times’s rule that every word between quotation marks be what a speaker or a writer actually said. [...]