Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and was educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. "I was born out of the soil of Howard County," he said. "It was that black soil of the Great Depression that led me to a career in agriculture." He started improving cereal varieties in Mexico, which led to the worldwide Green Revolution (the real one) of the sixties. Those were times of pessimism, of the "population bomb", which he alone defused. In college, he was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Later he received the Nobel Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal. He died today at 95 of cancer. A great American.
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If there is a God, Norman sits today at the side of His throne. This man is responsible for saving a BILLION lives. A grand televised funeral is given for a drunken lout such as Teddy Kennedy but Borlaug gets only a passing mention.
A sure sign our civilization is in terminal decline.
Anon.
What the hell are you talking about? He was no "hero" -- his discoveries have led to the explosion of population growth amongst non-Whites.
Read the comments to the recent American Renaissance article about him and GET A CLUE ---> http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/09/nobel_prize_win.php#comments
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