I did not suggest that other people do not read these articles, only that AMERICA Online should not link to articles that do not give U.S. equivalents. The author/editor agreed that showing both measures was useful, and added that information (which someone didn't realize until after he posted a reproach to me about something that wasn't in the article when I made my initial comment. It's always a good idea to read comments before adding your own, esp. if there are only a few. Since the author/editor agreed and made the change, why is anyone disagreeing? Tho resentment outsiders may wish it otherwise, the United States IS the center of the modern world, and everyone knows it, even people in tiny, insignificant countries where they address people as "mate". The issue is that it is RUDE to speak to anyone in terms you KNOW he doesn't understand, like speaking a foreign language right in the presence of someone you know doesn't understand it. As for drugs, most people don't use drugs, except maybe for an aspirin or ibuprofen; and comparing a tiny pill to 7 ounces is not possible for human beings to do simply by heft. The CIA World Factbook, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, uses only metric measures. Its funding should be ended. When 300 million people in the world's greatest economic, military, and cultural power in the history of the world do not use metric, it behooves anyone who wishes to reach those 300 million people to speak to them in English and U.S. traditional measures. If you wish NOT to talk to us, by all means talk among yourselves, but AOL should not direct Americans' attention to your conversation.

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