Corrections from the past week.

Corrections from the past week.

Corrections from the past week.

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March 4 2005 2:43 PM

Corrections

In a March 2 "Culturebox," Timothy Noah described the words humbug, poppycock, tommyrot, hooey, twaddle, balderdash, claptrap, palaver, hogwash, buncombe (or "bunk"), hokum, drivel, flapdoodle, and bullpucky as adjectives. In fact, they are nouns.

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In a March 2 "Today's Blogs," David Wallace-Wells improperly used the term "dark matter" to describe anti-gravity forces.  The correct term is "dark energy."

In a Feb. 28 "Today's Blogs," David Wallace-Wells mischaracterized blogger Ed Cone as a conservative commentator. He is a Southern journalist and liberal blogger.

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