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Letter: For the record

Published 4 July 2007

• An editing error had us blaming aviation fuel for noxious air in planes (23 June, p 5). In fact organophosphate additives to engine lubricants are widely suspected.

• We said that “Canada is finalising a C$1.9 billion ($1.7 million) class-action settlement” of Native Canadian claims (5 May, p 11). The US dollar figure should of course have been $1.7 billion.

• In the article on denial-of-service attacks, we mentioned the Russian website Xakep (9 June, p 30) and should perhaps have noted that the name is pronounced “hacker” if read as being in Cyrillic characters.

Issue no. 2611 published 7 July 2007

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