Posted a few moments ago... Jim
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Sextuplet article by Roxana Hegeman Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 23:41:49 -0400 From: James Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feedback Editor, The Wire, Associated Press copy to: Feedback Editor, the NY Times Dear editor, Please pass my compliments on to Ms. Roxana Hegeman for her article on the sextuplets born recently in Kansas. I read her article at NYTimesOnline and I was impressed by her straight-forward style of writing. Especially impressive was her use of metric units (kilometers and grams) in her article in a manner that seemed quite natural and part of the natural flow of the story. This made the article all the more interesting to me, especially since most hospitals record birth weights in grams or kilograms automatically. Because Ms. Hegeman included those units, I was able to mentally compare the birth weights with the limit for the medical definition of "premature birth" to put them in perspective. best regards, James R. Frysinger -- James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston 10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street 843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424 http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644 -------------------------------------------------------
