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Stimulating The Metric System

February 1, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 5

Let's use some of the stimulus money to convert to the metric system in the U.S. This will bring us in line with most of the rest of the world, simplify our commerce, and employ people in a broad spectrum of trades over the next 10 to 20 years. It will also stimulate our brain cells, especially in some of us seniors, as we learn to think in metric terms.

Vic Smith
Kennewick, Wash.

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