Kilopqascal wrote in USMA 15732: >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.
I think the reason was probably that the source of the information was the U.S. military, They have been metric for many years. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
