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Norman Borlaug, the plant pathologist described by the Atlantic Monthly as having saved more lives than anyone else in the history of mankind, came within eight seeds of failure...
According to Christopher Dowswell, the director of communications at the Sasakawa Africa Association, Borlaug crossed high yield tall wheats with much shorter Japanese wheats to develop a plant which produced substanitally more grain...
...There was a lot more of a working class presence because of the subway yards...and the printing plant [nearby],” he says...
Sullivan attributed the changes to the demolition of the subway yards in the late 1970s, where the School of Government now stands, and the closing of the University Press Printing Plant...
...keep going. But more important, unlike the big cats, which rely mostly on strength and speed to bring down dinner, our ancestors depended on guile, organization and the social and technological skills made possible by their increasingly complex brains. Those who were smartest about hunting--and about gathering the plant foods they ate as part of their omnivorous diets--tended to be better fed and healthier than the competition. They were thus more likely to pass along their genes...