The U.S. Metric Program may be the loneliest office in Washington. Located about 30 minutes from the White House, its headquarters is in the much larger—and better funded—“measurement standards ...

A national nonprofit that runs an after-school program in seven U.S. cities is shaking things up in the field through its unique youth-development model. The All Stars Project (ASP) is also working to ...

Wakefield, MA. - January 9, 2006 - The VSI Alliance (VSIA) today announced the release of the QIP (Quality IP) Metric Version 2.0 following an extensive beta program that began in June 2005. Companies ...

Use this free printable to easily convert dry and liquid baking ingredients from imperial to metric or vice versa. We’ve ...

In 1975, the United States passed the Metric Conversion Act. The legislation was meant to slowly transition its units of measurement from feet and pounds to meters and kilograms, bringing the US up to ...

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) examined the Constellation Program’s draft request to reverse its 2-year-old decision to implement the metric system (also known as the International System of ...

We Americans measure things our own way. Our yardsticks are marked in feet and inches, measures that are unfathomable to foreigners, nearly all of whom have been brought up in a decimals-only ...

While these three countries continue to use the imperial system, both Liberia and Myanmar are gradually introducing metric units, which are already widely used in some contexts. In the United States, ...