Keep after the SI-phobic quasi-science authors, Jim. Your requirement for articles in SI to teach your students is an ideal lever of persuasion, short of mandates to use SI from AP senior editors. Do you send your excellent letters by e-mail with blind copies to us, or do you send original formal letters by USPS for more impact with later e-mail copies to us, or a mixture of both? Gene. .................. On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, James R. Frysinger wrote: > > Dear Mr. Bridges, > > Your AP Wire story, "Astronomers Find Solar System Body", would have > fit in nicely with my Intro. Astronomy course currently in progress > except for one thing. We are in the semester that studies the solar > system but we have done so in SI units. Your article used miles. > Therefore I will not cite this article in class. > ...
