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Measuring Measurement Systems

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Why do we buy soda in liters, but milk in quarts? Why do we use yards at football games but meters at track meets? Author John Bemelmans Marciano explores America’s stormy flirtation with the metric system in, "Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept its Feet."