In the April 2, 2004 edition of TQB (Vol. 5, No. 8), we reported on an opinion piece written by Christopher Cross in the Contra Costa Times regarding the national security threat posed by the declining quality of our educational system relative to India and China. In the piece, we cited a statistic from Mr. Cross' article stating that "China graduated 40 million people from college last year while the U.S. graduated 2.2 million." A reader, who was clearly better at math than we are, wrote to suggest that the 40 million-figure could not possibly be correct and later cited a May 29 piece in the South China Daily Post that pinned the number of Chinese graduating from mainland universities at around 2 million. (While that doesn't include Chinese student who graduate from college off the mainland, we do not anticipate finding out that 38 million Chinese are graduating from foreign universities!) We apologize for the error and promise not to scare you again.