For the record - April 21, 2010

Lap-Band surgery: Michael Hiltzik’s column in Sunday’s Business section said that Willie Brooks, who died after weight-loss surgery at a clinic in Beverly Hills, was 6 feet 6 and nearly 300 pounds when he died. He was 5 feet 6.

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