[Vo]:50 mcg Missing

[Terry Blanton]

Theft in Paris?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_re_eu/shrinking_kilogram;_ylt=A0WTcUqtguhGTH8AhRms0NUE

http://snipurl.com/1qtfk

"By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Sep 12, 1:00 PM ET

PARIS - A kilogram just isn't what it used to be.

The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the
metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is
mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard
Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres,
southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50
micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies."

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