Word: borlaug
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EDWARD TELLER, scientist: Biologist Norman Borlaug, who with his colleagues developed a strain of wheat that is helping to feed the world. The most important man who brought refugees to this country, from Hungarians to Indochinese, is Leo Cherne, executive director of the Research Institute of America. Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington, is a politician and a scientist who pulled the Atomic Energy Commission out of a deep mire by reorganizing the agency. She made many enemies, and had no support, but became the Governor of a state...
...fellow commission members include 1970 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Norman Borlaug, developer of new wheat strains and father of the "green revolution," Thomas Wyman, president of the Green Giant food corporation, and Singer John Denver, who has produced a documentary movie on hunger, I Want to Live. Said Carter of Denver:. "While some of us can only reach thousands of people on the problem of hunger, he can reach millions...
Some of the broader dangers were cited recently by Norman Borlaug, winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of wheat strains essential for the famed Green Revolution. "You cannot have political stability based on empty stomachs and poverty," he warned. "When I see food lines in developing countries, I know that those governments are under pressure and are in danger of falling." Shortages or high prices of food have already contributed to the toppling of governments in Ethiopia, Niger and Thailand...
...will double in number within 35 years. India's 2.2% annual growth rate will double the country's current population of 596 million by the year 2000. The apparent inability, or unwillingness, of most poor countries to restrain their profligacy has embittered many agricultural economists. Nobel Laureate Borlaug complains that the higher yields of the miracle seeds were meant to give the underdeveloped nations some time to reduce their population growth and begin upgrading their citizens' nutrition. Instead, he says, "Our efforts to buy time have been frittered away because political leaders in developing nations have refused...
Even the limited policy of triage, however, may be delayed until it is too late for millions of famished people. "It is going to take a tremendous disaster from famine before people come to grips with the population problem," warns Norman Borlaug, the prime mover of the Green Revolution. "The stage is set for such a situation right now." Indeed, in parts of Central America, in ten sub-Saharan nations and in some rural areas of India, the 20-year trend of declining death rates and infant mortality is being reversed. Death rates are rising. This, according to Malthus...