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[USMA:46931] U.S. still the last major metric system holdout

Nat Hager
Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:33:55 -0700

Story appeared today:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/mar/14/la-us-still-the-last-major-metric-sy
stem-holdout/ 

I also made some editorial corrections

>>A nice day of 80 degrees Fahrenheit doesn't seem so nice when it's 26.7 27
degrees Celsius .

>>Highlands Today asked a few employees what 1 inch correlates to in the
metric system <http://www2.tbo.com/topic/k/metric-system/>  and nobody had a
clue that 1 inch is roughly 2 1/2 centimeters, or 25.4 25 millimeters.

Nat