INTERNATIONAL

An article on Wednesday about Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s trip to Sangin, a district in Afghanistan where many Marines have died, misstated the name of the battalion Mr. Gates visited. It is the Third Battalion, Fifth Marines — not the reverse. (There is no Third Marines, Fifth Battalion.)  (Go to Article)

NATIONAL

An article on Friday about a new view among anthropologists on the structure of early human societies misstated the middle initial of an Arizona State University anthropologist who helped lead a study of living hunter-gatherer peoples that was published in Science. He is Kim R. Hill, not Kim S.  (Go to Article)

SPORTS

An article on Friday about the decision by National Athletic Equipment Reconditioners Association, the trade group that oversees the refurbishing of used helmets, that it would no longer accept helmets more than 10 years old misstated the day Representatives Henry A. Waxman and G. K. Butterfield requested that the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade hold a hearing regarding football helmet safety. It was Monday, not Tuesday. And because of an editing error, the article also misidentified the state represented by Butterfield. He is a Democrat from North Carolina, not Michigan. (The error about his state also appeared on Tuesday in a report in the Sports Briefing column about Waxman’s and Butterfield’s request for the hearing.)  (Go to Article)

OBITUARIES

An obituary on Thursday about David Broder, the political reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, referred incorrectly to Jimmy Carter’s political status in 1976, when he won the Wisconsin Democratic primary for president. He was the former governor of Georgia — not the governor, having left office in 1975.  (Go to Article)

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