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Corrections: June 3, 2025

Corrections: June 3, 2025

New York Times2 days ago

An article on May 25 about an unconventional program that claims to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms referred imprecisely to the sales of Dale Bredesen's book 'The End of Alzheimer's.' The title has sold around 300,000 copies in the United States, not overall.
Because of an editing error, an article on Sunday about a neighborhood on the outskirts of Berlin that was built for the elite guard of the Nazi Reich misidentified the spokesman for Vonovia, a company that serves as a landlord for some 300 apartments in the development was misidentified. He is Matthias Wulff, not Wulaaff.
An article on Sunday about the Energy Department's announcement that it was terminating $3.7 billion in Biden-era awards to companies trying to demonstrate technologies that might one day help tackle global warming misidentified the location of a Heidelberg Materials cement plant. It is in Indiana, not Louisiana.
An article on Saturday about a federal grand jury indicting a former New Hampshire businessman, Eric Spofford, on charges that he orchestrated attacks on the homes of journalists who had investigated claims of sexual misconduct against him misstated how much money Mr. Spofford is accused of paying an associate to vandalize the homes of a reporter and an editor at New Hampshire Public Radio as well as the home of the reporter's parents. It was $20,000, not $10,000.
An article on Sunday about the actress and singer Megan Hilty's routine on show days while she's starring in the Broadway musical 'Death Becomes Her' misstated Brian Gallagher's age. He is 45, not 52.
An obituary on May 23 about Jim Irsay, the owner and chief executive of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League, misstated the location of his death. It occurred in a hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., not Los Angeles.
An obituary on Thursday about Bruce Logan, a special effects artist and cinematographer, using information from David Zucker, one of the directors of 'Airplane!,' misstated Mr. Logan's contribution to that film. He worked on miniatures; he did not design the title sequence.
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