CORRECTIONS

-- A March 25 Metro item, from the Baltimore Sun, incorrectly described events involving the death of a pedestrian on a road in Anne Arundel County. Police said the man was killed when he and a van, owned by Holy Temple Church of God International in Annapolis, were struck by a Mazda 3.

-- A March 25 Metro item incorrectly described restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research under President George W. Bush as a ban on such research.

-- The Escapes column in the March 25 Style section contained an incorrect photo credit. It should have read: © 2009 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program/Willis Humphrey.

-- Steven Pearlstein's column in the March 25 Business section incorrectly said that Washington Mutual had its headquarters in Southern California. Although the thrift had a significant presence in California, it was based in Seattle.

-- A Science article in the March 23 A-section said that Ronald Reagan was left-handed. Although many lists of left-handed presidents include him, Reagan was right-handed, according to people who knew him. He performed some activities that require dexterity with his left hand, but he wrote with his right, which is the conventional determiner of handedness. Joanne Drake, who served as Reagan's chief of staff after his presidency, said yesterday that she and others had "heard the president say he was born left-handed and was forced to learn to write with his right hand as a young child."

-- A March 22 Travel article misstated the location of India's Sariska National Park. It is in the state of Rajasthan, not Gujarat.

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