----- Original Message -----
From: "Nat Hager III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:46 PM
Subject: [USMA:11962] LA Times on UK metrication
This appeared in the LA Times back in January. Slightly different spin....
Nat
World Perspective
LAW
'Metric Martyr' Braves Britain's Scales of Justice
Steven Thoburn, the nation's first vendor to face trial for clinging to old
imperial measures, has become a cause celebre for anti-EU crusaders.
MARJORIE MILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Los Angeles Times , Home Edition , Column: A , Page: 5 , Friday January 12,
2001 Foreign Desk
LONDON -- In his 12 years as a fruit and vegetable vendor, no one ever
asked Steven Thoburn for 0.45359237 kilos of bananas--the metric equivalent
of a pound.
What lunacy is this?
Always the same nonsense!
Han
