[USMA:36363] Re: Units used in popular science books: buy Canadian

[Bill Hooper]

On 2006 Mar 23 , at 8:45 PM, Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote: Regarding the statement by Brandon Skyhorse, representative of the publishers of Tim Flannery's new book on global warming entitled "The Weather Makers": We felt that metrics would be confusing for a great many readers, so we decided to covert to Imperial measurements for our  (U.S.) edition. And that action is insulting to many of us and demeaning to the entire US population, suggesting that Americans are too stupid to understand metric. Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ==========================    Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ==========================