[USMA:50444] AP slowly metricating?

[James R. Frysinger]

It may be my imagination, but it seems to me that Associated Press is 
slowly -- very, very slowly -- metricating. AP line feeds about events 
in the U.S. that are liable to find international audiences now often 
include metric equivalents in parentheses for distances and heights. And 
their rounding seems to be appropriate most of the time. The article 
that prompted my thoughts here is at
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/09/residents-cling-homes-mississippi-keeps-rising/?test=latestnews
Jim

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