Paul, et. al., I have routinely asked NGS to publish a "metric-only" English edition for export to countries outside of the US including Canada, UK, and Australia and offer this metric edition as an option to US subscribers as well. If they can publish in Norwegian (I feel safe assuming that the global demand for the Norwegian edition is quite low) then they certainly could offer a metric-English edition (again I feel safe to assume that there would be sufficient demand for this metric edition both domestically in the US and internationally in English speaking countries). I never received a reply. greg >>> "Fardig, Paul S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-03-14 07:44:18 >>> I was at a presentation at the National Geographic last night in D.C. They apparently were moving in a new exhibit and lying on one of the pallets were three copies of the current issue (gorilla cover, Peru story, etc) of their flagship yellow magazine, two in Norwegian and one in Danish. My daughter and I looked through both versions in great detail and all units mentioned were METRIC ONLY, no wombat anywhere. Units I recognized included kilometers, meters, cm, cubic meters, hectares, and kilos (didn't see "kilograms"). There was one mention of tons (spelled something like tonnes), which I assumed was 1000 kg but had no way to confirm. The map legends had kilometers only. It was an eye-opener to me. Obviously NG is not totally adverse to SI itself but caters to it's presumed audience. Their bookstore/sales office wasn't open, but the person handling event tickets told me they published in quite a number of languages. Paul
