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- Sep. 10, 1990: World Notes:France
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Sep. 10, 1990 Playing Cat And Mouse
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 57
- World Notes
- FRANCE
- A Grand Goof For Larousse
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- <body>
- <p> The venerable publishing house's logo portrays a young woman
- blowing softly through a dandelion, sowing knowledge. What an
- upset, then, for Larousse to discover spores of deadly
- misinformation in the latest edition of its dictionary. A color
- illustration on page 203 of the 1991 Petit Larousse en Couleurs
- incorrectly identifies three highly poisonous wild mushrooms
- as being harmless.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
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- </body>
- </article>
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