The Washington Post is wombat with the exception of one picture caption yesterday where it showed a huge tangle of cyclists on the ground with a note that they had crashed a "few kilometers" short of the finish; also, in today's paper, there was a table with the phrase "Standings from the fourth stage over 215 kilometers yesterday". Figures such as "133.5 mile" stage, "1.8 miles to the finish", etc. are being bandied about in the text; yesterday, there were mileage figures with three figures to the right of the decimal point. Obviously some copy editor is really good with a calculator. Carleton In a message dated Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:54:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Duncan Bath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that the Tour de France is in full cycle, how is the [U.S.] media > reporting it? In its original SI units or in miles, mph etc.? > If the latter, opportunities abound for [politely, objectively] urging the > use of international units. > Duncan
