Bill, Try the Australian version - while most stories are about this country and neighbouring islands, it does cover all the oceans and it's marine life. There was also a story about climbing a high mountain in Pakistan earlier this year. It's only $A55 a year (about $US30) for overseas subscribers - see www.australiangeographic.com.au
It was started by one of our best-known citizens - entrepreneur Dick Smith. He flew around the world in a helicopter some years ago (first person to do so) and most of the way to the North Pole in a helicopter. He's organised many trips to Antarctica and a leader in preservation in the world's environment. He's Australia's version of Jacques Cousteau and should get far more recognition, in my opinion. The National Geographic tends to get political from time to time which 'Geographics' from other countries do not. To get a world perspective you may have to get the magazines from other countries - the advantage is that a story will be seen from the eyes of its own citizens, instead of a one-eyed Washington view. Britain's "Geographical Magazine" is also very good, and also all-metric of course. See http://www.geographical.co.uk and does cover most countries, especially in Europe. Regards Mike Perth, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara and/or Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:21 PM Subject: [USMA:22082] Re: temperature in Celsius | on 9/4/2002 10:50 PM, Mike Joy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > (After bemoaning the lack of metric progress in America's | >"National Geographic" magazine, Mike wrote ...) | > ... so I now subscribe to the Australian Geographic Magazine | > which I find to be a far superior production (it's 100% metric) | | I looked into the Canadian Geographic to see if it would make a good | substitute for the anti-metric National Geographic. The Canadian magazine was | very good and also all metric (like Mike's Australian version), as far as I | could tell, but it consisted solely of Canadian articles. I was looking for | the global scope of the "National Geographic". | | It looks like there is no substitute that is both all-metric and whole-world | oriented. I plan on dropping National Geographic and just doing without. | | Regards, Bill Hooper | college physics teacher (retired), USA (Florida) | | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Do It Easy, Do It Metric! | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | |
