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...allowed Mexico to triple its grain production in a matter of years, and when his hybrid was introduced in south Asia in the mid-1960s, wheat yields there jumped 60%. Miracle strains of rice and other grains followed in short order, triggering a global green revolution that put the lie to Malthus' gloomy calculation. For his role in helping stave off world starvation, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...Scottish cardiologist James Mackenzie invents the polygraph machine, better known as the lie detector...
...marriage legislation currently before Congress. While we do not necessarily support this legislation, we are certainly grateful to the council members for deigning to make this choice of endorsement for us. It's a good thing the council has so boldly and judiciously determined where students' best interests lie in this sensitive and extremely controversial national issue. What a lucky break not only for these readers but for all students to have a student government so generous with unsolicited political judgements and representations! Without the council members' infinite wisdom and elevated sense of these matters, most students no doubt could...
...peer-led review program seemed like a natural idea," Chan wrote in an e-mail message. "The best educational resources are not found at some commercial site but lie right here on campus...
...marriage legislation currently before Congress. While we do not necessarily support this legislation, we are certainly grateful to the council members for deigning to make this choice of endorsement for us. It's a good thing the council has so boldly and judiciously determined where students' best interests lie in this sensitive and extremely controversial national issue. What a lucky break not only for these readers but for all students to have a student government so generous with unsolicited political judgements and representations! Without the council members' infinite wisdom and elevated sense of these matters, most students no doubt could...