My grandchildren began High School (9th Grade) in St. Charles, Missouri this
month.
They are using the 2009 Edition of the textbook "Physical Science Concepts in
Action," published by Prentice Hall.
They access this text online, and their assignments are announced online, by
entering their res
I noticed recently when I went on line to calculate postage that Step
5 where one enters weight, two options are now available: Standard and
Metric. When one clicks on Metric, one finds Kilograms, not grams,
even for something as light as a one-ounce letter which the Post
Office program cal
Except when selected it's in kilograms. This is somewhat much for a simple
letter envelope, unless you know that 25 g = 0.025 kg.
Carleton
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From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of Michael Payne
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:23
To
I went to www.usps.com today to find the cost to mail a letter. I see there is
now an option to Enter weight as "Metric".
I and others have written suggesting such, obviously someone listened.
Great News.
Mike Payne
Dear "American Way" Editor,
Please include Celsius temperature readings in all of your magazine's
references to temperature. Since your passengers hail from numerous countries
outside of the U.S., all of which use this temperature scale exclusively in
their weather reports, they need to read
