From The New York Times:
Not Giving an Inch
Most of the world is on the metric system; why isn’t America?
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/books/review/whatever-happened-to-the-metric-system-by-john-bemelmans-marciano.html
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If anybody responds, they might mention to the author that while the
substance of the explanation is true, the name of the temperature scale in
SI Metric was changed from Centigrade to Celsius in 1954.
Mark Henschel
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Metric Rules Info i...@metricrules.org
wrote:
Look at the great comments in the attached snap shot! Mark's comment is
the most recent one so far. See all comments by scrolling through the
signatures, and while you are there, please add your name if you have not
already. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/change-to-the-metric
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My wife is in a nursing home in New York City (closest place where her
particular disease can be treated) and I go there on the train every week
and take her out in a wheelchair.
Today we were southbound on Madison Avenue somewhere in the 90s. There is a
small hardware store along the way and
