A Feb. 23 Business article about Montgomery County's ban on smoking in restaurants and bars was accompanied by a photograph of a person smoking outside the Clyde's in Chevy Chase shortly after the ban took effect in October 2003. The caption should have indicated that the picture was a file photo; that Clyde's branch has been closed since February 2004 because of construction in the area. A Feb. 16 article incorrectly characterized a letter from the Interior Department's inspector general as directly criticizing federal judicial nominee William G. Myers III for his handling of a case when he was the department's solicitor. The Feb. 10 letter to a public employees group criticized the solicitor's office for its handling of a controversial grazing case, but it did not say that Myers was responsible.
A Feb. 23 Food article incorrectly described the packaging for the artificial sweeteners aspartame and saccharin. Saccharin comes in pink packets; aspartame, in blue packets.
A Feb. 22 Business column misstated the amount that Primedia paid when it purchased About.com in 2001. Primedia paid $690 million in stock, not $790 million.
A Feb. 21 Business article said the Cohen family founded the Giant Food supermarket chain. The company was co-founded by N.M. Cohen and Samuel Lehrman.
A Feb. 17 Business item incorrectly reported the second-quarter profit of Avatech Solutions Inc. of Owings Mills. The company earned $9,482, not $9.5 million. For the comparable period a year earlier, it earned $4,725, not $4.7 million.
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