On Monday 21 Jun 2004 21:45, Jason Darfus wrote: > Well, yea.. it's the A.P. and of course they use American Proprietary (AP) > units, too! Any news story that's a retransmission of an AP-sourced story > will usually only have AP units. I try to look for CNN, NBC or > internationally-based stories as they'll usually have both units (or > strictly SI). I was watching coverage on CNN and the ship designer, Burt > Rutan, always talked about the 100 km altitude they were shooting for. > > jdd
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm -- Chris KEENAN UK Metric Assoc.: metric.org.uk