Even after 30 years, system may seem foreign, but `stealth metrics' abound.

From: Kansas City Star | Date: June 2, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Edward M. Eveld

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ If someone built a monument to U.S. metric conversion, it could take the shape of a 2-liter bottle of pop.

Funny, huh? Thirty years after the country went metric and this is all we have?

It has been that long since Congress passed and President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, back when being all-international seemed like a good idea.

To many others, though, it has always se...

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