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An article on Thursday about President Obama’s speech outlining his proposal for reducing budget deficits misstated the number of senior citizens who, the president said, would have to pay $6,000 more in health costs to offset the tax cut for each wealthy individual that is part of a competing Republican deficit-reduction plan. He said 33 senior citizens, not 30.  (Go to Article)

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An article on Tuesday about the increasing burden of student loan debt misstated the name of an organization whose president, Lauren Asher, described the social consequences of the debt problem. It is the Institute for College Access and Success, not the Institute for Student Access and Success.  (Go to Article)

FOREIGN

An article on March 28 about the mood of self-restraint in Tokyo in deference to the crisis caused by the earthquake and tsunami misstated previous electoral support for a candidate for governor of Tokyo, Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who objected to calls to tone down his campaign. He received tens of thousands of votes in previous elections, not a few thousand. (Go to Article)

NATIONAL

An article on Thursday about the order by a federal judge in Wichita, Kan., to postpone a trial because of the impending birth of a defense lawyer’s first child misquoted a portion of a line from Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” that was cited in the order. Judge Eric F. Melgren suggested that the legal adversaries “strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends,” not “drive mightily.” (Go to Article)

NEW YORK

Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about challenges facing New York City’s new schools chancellor referred incorrectly to a man seen last Friday handcuffed near the Cobble Hill School of American Studies. He had been arrested after an incident in a nearby subway station; he had not been inside the Brooklyn school. (Go to Article)

BUSINESS

An article on Tuesday about two new studies that question the overall environmental advantages of natural gas misstated the amount of carbon dioxide produced by burning natural gas instead of oil. Burning natural gas emits about 30 percent less carbon dioxide than oil, not 30 percent as much as oil. (Go to Article)

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An article in the Square Feet pages on March 23 about the growth of solar energy farms misstated the position of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities on a proposal by a developer, Ed Walters, to sell solar electricity to residents of an apartment complex he is building in Stafford Township, N.J. It has had preliminary discussions with Mr. Walters; it has not approved the proposal. (Go to Article)

CULTURE

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the children’s author Michael Morpurgo, whose book “War Horse” has been made into a play and a movie to be released in December, misstated the number of copies of that book in print in the United States. It is about 200,000, not 500,000, which is the total number of four of his books, including “War Horse,” that have been published by Scholastic in the United States. (Go to Article)

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A listing of credits on Thursday with a theater review of “Sleep No More,” at the McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street in Manhattan, misstated the surname of a producer. He is Jonathan Hochwald, not Hochwalk. (Go to Article)

OBITUARIES

An obituary on Wednesday about Charles Laufer, the founder of Tiger Beat magazine, omitted the name of a survivor. It is his daughter Teena Naumann. The obituary also misspelled the surname, before her marriage to Mr. Laufer, of his widow. She is the former Dorothy Lacy, not Lacey. (Go to Article)

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