Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...correct name of the protesting group is AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and it is an AIDS activist group, not one dedicated specifically to gay rights...
...Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex (St. Martin's; $22.95) combines Kinsey's research with the results of a Roper poll of 2,000 adults who were asked 18 true-or-false and multiple-choice questions about sex. To Kinsey's dismay, only 45% of those tested gave correct answers to 10 or more of the questions...
...length of a man's erect penis?" (five to seven inches). Still, as Kinsey shows, the level of actual knowledge suggests that the great sexual revolution of the late '60s was vastly over-rated. Of women 30 to 44, only 55% got a passing grade on the test (10 correct answers); of men in the same age group, only 52% did. Men got more correct answers on matters of sexual practices; women knew more about their own sexual health. People living in the Midwest had the highest scores of all, and those in the South and Northeast the lowest...
...issues are getting confused," Woodbury complains. "It's not the homeless that are the problem. To blame the homeless is not correct. They have enough problems of their own that they don't need to be blamed for the decay of an urban area...
Reacting promptly to correct the mistake, the worst in its history, Larousse suspended all sales of the 1,700-page, $75 dictionary, which sells more than a million copies a year, and recalled the 180,000 volumes already distributed so corrected champignon stickers can be placed over the erroneous captions. Cost: $5.5 million...