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...He’s a tenacious, dedicated person,” says Kenneth M. Quinn, the president of the World Food Prizes Foundation, which Borlaug helped start to reward achievements in agriculture. “[He] went to India and Pakistan and convinced leaders of both countries to change their approach to agriculture...
...Borlaug’s 90th birthday party earlier this year, Colin Powell led the singing of “Happy Birthday” in his honor. But, according to Quinn, when Peter Jennings came to interview Borlaug, he had already left for Africa...
...Borlaug divides his time between Mexico, where he is a senior consultant at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; Texas, where he is a Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at Texas A&M; and Africa, where he is president of the Sasakawa Africa Association...
...Borlaug, who has received 54 honerary doctorate degrees, grew up on a farm, and spent his first eight years of school in a one-room schoolhouse near Cresco, Iowa...
...Borlaug was a Big 10 wrestler at the University of Minnesota, and was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame...