Last week’s story on the Stone Oak Rotary Club’s donation to SAMMinistries was in the amount of $2,500, not $25,000 as stated. Also, Rotarian Bob Bordelon is the club’s current president, not vice president as stated. We apologize for any confusion that the errors may have caused.
The Media Equation column on Monday, about the possible value of The Boston Globe, referred incorrectly to the paper’s circulation. The Globe, owned by The New York Times Company, has a weekday circulation of 300,000 copies — not 300,000 readers. 
We added years to Alistair Carmichael MP and sent him many happy returns a month early. He will be 44, rather than 54, on his birthday, which is on 15 July (Birthdays, 15 June, page 31).
A story in yesterday’s Spectator gave Red Wings winger Marian Hossa short shrift. He’s 6-foot-1, not 5 foot-1 as the wire story reported. We apologize for shrinking him. 
Internet reviews: In Meghan Daum’s column Wednesday about Internet customer reviews, the average rate of sales of Three Wolf Moon T-Shirts was incorrect. The shirts are selling at about 100 an hour, not 100 a minute. 
There are approximately 74,000 wind turbines currently operating in Europe, not 1,700 as was stated in a May 11 article about wind power.
Bunker bungle: 
“The world’s No 1 bestseller” ( Observer Magazine, last week) said James Patterson “outsells JK Rowling, John Grisham and Dan Brown put together”. Patterson has sold 150 million books, but JK Rowling alone has sold 400 million.
An article in the Herald-Tribune on March 27 mistakenly stated that laundry services at the QEII Hospital processes 1.8 kilograms of laundry per year. They actually process 1.8 million kilograms per year. The Herald-Tribune apologizes for the error.
We said, “Compare that tripling of risk, a 300 percent increase in death [among smokers], to what the study found about red meat — a 30 percent increase.” In fact, a tripling of risk is a 200 percent increase. 
In Sunday’s City to City series opener on the Canadian community with the most beautiful people, it was noted a writer from the site, Travelers Digest, ranked Montreal as the third best city in the world for good looking women. In fact, while Montreal made the top 10, he originally placed it at 8th place, then 10th. But still “pretty” good.
The headline, “Amnesty says hundreds killed in Gambian witch-hunts”, on a report on page A10 yesterday was inaccurate. The report quoted Amnesty International as saying hundreds of people had been kidnapped in witch-hunts in The Gambia. The report said at least two were known to have died. We 
In “Surviving in a warmer world” (28 February, p 28) we said that “9 million people would need 18,000 square kilometres of land to live on”. That figure should, of course, have been 9 billion people, and the area of land 180,000 square kilometres. 
Saturday’s graphic on household expenditure showed the difference in spending between the December quarter and the September quarter of last year. Figures were for millions of dollars, not percentages. 
Salary cap corrected: A story in Thursday’s sports section listed the 2009 NFL salary cap as $27 million. In fact, the salary cap is $127 million. 
There were three computation errors in Christopher Hayes’s March 2 “Cut the Military Budget.” The Pentagon budget request represents a 13 (not 12) percent increase over last year’s budget. The reported Obama Defense Department appropriation would represent a 2.2 percent increase over last year’s budget (not 8 percent). And regarding the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, $3.4 billion divided by 95,000 works out to $35,800 per job (not $35.8 million). So it is not true that “more jobs would be created by hiring people to shred the money.” We deeply Editor
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