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2001-10-22
On Thursday, there was a K-mart ad in the newspaper. One of the items
offered at discount was Listerine mouthwash. The ad stated the size only
as "500ML". No other units listed.
Today, in the paper was an MSNBC map/graph showing the concentration of
land mines in Afghanistan in various regions. The units used were "land
mines per square km". Maybe it was too hard to convert the graph to miles,
or maybe it was the media's use of metric when dealing with bad things, like
drugs in grams. But whatever, metric was used.
John
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