On Monday 21 Jun 2004 21:45, Jason Darfus wrote:
> Well, yea.. it's the A.P. and of course they use American Proprietary (AP)
> units, too!  Any news story that's a retransmission of an AP-sourced story
> will usually only have AP units.  I try to look for CNN, NBC or
> internationally-based stories as they'll usually have both units (or
> strictly SI). I was watching coverage on CNN and the ship designer, Burt
> Rutan, always talked about the 100 km altitude they were shooting for.
>
> jdd

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm

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Chris KEENAN
UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk

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