FRONT PAGE
An article on Tuesday about health insurance companies’ switching to a new method of reimbursing out-of-network medical costs misstated part of the name of a patients’ group. It is Advocacy for Patients With Chronic Illness (not Advocates). The error was repeated in some editions in a picture caption with the continuation of the article.
INTERNATIONAL
Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about Egypt’s cancellation of deliveries of natural gas to Israel in a payment dispute referred imprecisely to Israel’s relationship to Gaza, which is one of the causes of popular Egyptian anger at Israel. While Gaza’s borders are controlled by Israel, and the territory is subject to an embargo Israel imposed in 2007, Gaza is no longer occupied by Israel, which unilaterally withdrew its military forces in 2005. (As the article correctly noted, there is continued occupation of the West Bank by Israel.)
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Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about a rally in Moscow in response to Patriarch Kirill I’s call for the Russian Orthodox Church to defend itself against what he has called a campaign of blasphemy misstated the number of times Vladimir V. Putin has been elected Russia’s president. It is three, not two.
NEW YORK
The About New York column on Friday, about Peter Bulow, a psychiatrist and sculptor who copies the heads of fellow passengers in clay while he rides the subway, misspelled part of the name of the University of Illinois campus where he earned a medical degree and a master of fine arts. It is the campus at Urbana-Champaign (not Champagne).
BUSINESS DAY
An article on April 14 about Wal-Mart Stores’ tapping of expertise from environmental groups to further its sustainability efforts referred incompletely to the relationship of one such group, the Environmental Defense Fund, to the company, which is controlled by the Walton family. While the Environmental Defense Fund receives no direct corporate funding from Wal-Mart, it has received grants from the Walton Family Foundation and a member of the Walton family serves on its board of trustees.
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An article on Wednesday about the identification of a case of so-called mad cow disease in a California dairy cow paraphrased erroneously from comments by the United States Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinary officer, Dr. John Clifford. It has not been disclosed what prompted a rendering plant to test the animal for the disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Dr. Clifford did not say that the plant noticed symptoms of B.S.E.
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An article on April 18 about Coursera, a start-up that seeks to distribute interactive online courses, erroneously included one university on a list of its academic partners. While Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania are partners with Coursera, the University of California, Berkeley, is not. (It has been experimenting with Coursera’s platform but has no formal partnership.)
OBITUARIES
An obituary on Monday and in some editions on Sunday about Charles W. Colson, the aide to President Richard M. Nixon who later became an evangelical leader, misstated the date that the former C.I.A. officer E. Howard Hunt, who had been hired by Mr. Colson to spy on the president’s opponents, was arrested in connection with the break-in at the Watergate office complex in Washington. Mr. Hunt was arrested in September 1972 — not in June 1972, shortly after the break-in, when five other suspects were arrested.
STYLE
Scouting column last Thursday referred incorrectly to the Dolce Vita store at 255 Elizabeth Street in SoHo. It is the company’s newest New York store, not its first. The column also misidentified the department store that sells Dolce Vita shoes. It is Bloomingdale’s, not Barneys. And because of an editing error, the column gave an incomplete address for the Treasure & Bond store. It is at 350 West Broadway, not at 350 Broadway.
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An article last Thursday about Trudie Styler misstated the year in which she and her husband, Sting, were ordered to pay damages for having fired their pregnant chef. It was 2007, not 2011.
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An article on April 12 about clothing rescued from the Titantic wreckage referred incorrectly to an honor received by Deborah Nadoolman Landis, the curator of an exhibition on the role of costume design in cinema history. She was an Oscar nominee for best costume design; she did not win the award.
HOME & GARDEN
A picture caption last Thursday with the On Location column, about a house in High Falls, N.Y., owned by Zoe Bissell and Bryan Buryk, misstated the source and cost for a wool and jute ottoman. It is from High Falls Mercantile and cost $375; it was not custom made for $1,500.
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