"Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: [USMA:8912] MCO commentary > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 06:19:10 -0500 > From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Some old MCO commentary from Federation of American Scientists... [much commentary snipped] > TEXT: That concludes this rather uncomplimentary > self- criticism of our inability to come to terms with > the metric system of measurements, from the U-S press, > after one of the biggest mistakes in the U-S space > program. > > NEB/ANG/WTW > > 08-Oct-1999 16:39 PM EDT (08-Oct-1999 2039 UTC) > NNNN > > Source: Voice of America Now, if those editorial writers had the backbone to force the necessary changes in the AP's 'Stylebook', as well as in its adaptations used by their own papers.... I consider the AP Stylebook the be the BIGGEST hurdle that SI faces in its struggle to become the measuring 'norm' here in the USA. s -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Regards, Michael G. Koerner Appleton, WI ____________________________________________________________________________
