Back when I was a Catholic-school kid in northern Wisconsin, my school lessons briefly focused on the metric system. This was in the late 1970s. Along with learning cursive and the referents of rosary ...
Male, brown hair, blue and white striped top: Feet and inches. Male, black hair and goatee, blue and white striped top: Pounds and ounces. Male, grey curly hair, checked top: Centimetres, millimetres.
On Wednesday, when former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, his remarks on the occasion contained some of the usual sentiment about the ...