Newsweek has finally apologised for a 1986 cover story that predicted single women over 40 would probably never marry. Its June 5 issue carried a cover line saying, "We were wrong!" But critics say the apology for a story based on a claim that women had more chance of being killed by a terrorist than getting married was hopelessly late in coming. (Via AlterNet.org)
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