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Letter: For the record

Published 6 June 2007

• The satellite image of Australia showing the Adelaide area that was used to illustrate the article “Earth audit” (26 May, p 34) was mistakenly printed as a mirror image.

• As many readers have noticed, in the illustration of Americans lifetime consumption of resources (26 May, p 40) the amounts of phosphorus and aluminium should have been 8322 and 1576 kilograms respectively, not tonnes.

Issue no. 2607 published 9 June 2007

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