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March 24, 2004

A GENUINE HERO: Tomorrow is the birthday of Norman Borlaug, who unlike many recent winners of the Nobel Peace Prize has actually done something significant to help humanity.

Here's a wonderful article about Borlaug -- and his rather unsavory critics -- from The Atlantic Monthly. Why did Borlaug win the prize? He "may have prevented a billion deaths." Strangely, some people don't admire that.