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A report that was recently published in Weekly Book News (Australia) detailed a typo that caused a cookbook to be pulped:
Penguin pulped 7000 copies of the Pasta Bible (ISBN 9780143011071) earlier this month due to a typo that could be considered offensive … New stock will be available from mid-May. [Sally] Bateman said this ‘was a proofreading error, and we’ll be making every effort to ensure this doesn’t happen again’.
The bloggers at Meanjin have details on the nature of the typo:
We know someone who knows someone who knows an anonymous someone that tells us that the pulped edition included the words: Freshly ground black people.
Thanks, Kevin!
Few things in the world of magazines are the subject of as much lore as the New Yorker’s fact checking department.
Gun-control advocates praised Justice John Paul Stevens after he announced his retirement Friday. A Saturday front-page article about Justice Stevens’s retirement incorrectly said he had been hailed by gun-rights advocates. 
In a special collection of photos showing key Labour figures as the election campaign lifted off, the caption on the main picture said: “Gordon Brown walks down the corridor from his office in Downing Street on his way to visit the Queen to tender his resignation as prime minister.” We should have said he was going to ask the Queen to dissolve parliament; he remains prime minister (Behind the scenes, 9 April, pages 14-15). 
A quote in Saturday’s paper from a source who had recently spoken at length Afghan President Hamid Karzai was incorrectly attributed to Grant Kippen, the former chair of Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission. The quote is, in fact, from a diplomat and long-time friend of Mr. Karzai, who spoke to The Globe on the condition his name not be published.
California condor: In Thursday’s LATExtra section, a credit on a photograph of a condor and egg misspelled the last name of photographer Gavin Emmons as Emmonds. Also, it credited him as being a photographer for the Associated Press. He is with the National Park Service. 
Coachella: In a story in Sunday’s Arts & Books section, which was printed in advance, pop music critic Ann Powers recommended five not-to-miss bands at Coachella and included Janelle Monae. Monae will not be appearing at the festival. 
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Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about a powerful earthquake that shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon misstated, in some editions, the distance between Yuma, Ariz., and the quake’s epicenter just south of Mexicali, the capital of Baja California, Mexico. It is about 60 miles, not 1,600. And an accompanying map showed an incorrect location for Mexicali. It is on the United States border directly north of the earthquake’s epicenter, not north and west of the epicenter. A corrected map can be found at nytimes.com/national. 
An April 7 photo caption accompanying an article about the high risk of rape for women in Haiti incorrectly identified Elmancia Dezameau as a rape victim. In fact, as the article correctly indicates, Dezameau was attacked when members of a group called Vengeance came to her home. She was not raped. 
Walt Baker, former CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association who recently lost his job for forwarding an e-mail insulting first lady Michelle Obama, was incorrectly identified Wednesday as Ward Baker, a political and business consultant, in a column by Mark Cook. That column was published Wednesday in the Brentwood Journal, the Franklin Review Appeal, and the Journal of Spring Hill and Thompson’s Station.
A headline in the Sunday early edition on an article about objections by some in the hemophiliac community to blood donations by homosexuals incorrectly characterized one of the article’s subjects. Her late husband had hemophilia; she does not. 
Monday’s story ‘‘Good crims, bad crims in the Cross’’ wrongly said that the co-author of a new book, the police informant Tony, had a role in helping to frame Phuong Ngo for the murder of John Newman.
In a story March 30, The Associated Press reported that country music singer Gretchen Wilson said she received no royalties during her time with Sony. Wilson’s manager, Marc Oswald, now says she “misspoke” and that she made significant royalties from her early work with Sony, though nothing recently. 
A headline appearing within a March 30 
An earlier edition of this story incorrectly stated that ACORN advisers posed as a prostitute and a pimp. In fact, two conservatives who posed as a pimp and a prostitute sought tax tips from ACORN advisers. 
An obituary on Thursday about David Mills, a television writer who explored racial issues in scripts for “NYPD Blue,” “Homicide” and other dramas, referred incorrectly to the HBO series “The Wire,” for which he also wrote. It was an urban drama that explored various aspects of Baltimore and its institutions; it was not a “taut prison series.” 
