The Man Who Saved a Billion Lives

[Jagdaddy]

Other than Theodore Roosevelt*, Elihu Root, Charles Dawes, Frank Kellog, Jane Addams, Nicolas Murray Butler, Cordell Hull*, Emily Green Balch, John R. Mott, Ralph Bunche, George Marshall*, Linus Carl Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr*, Jody Williams, and Jimmy Carter*?




*= ones I wouldn't have had to Google.

Weird trivia: Jody Williams worked as a receptionist for my Dad in the early/mid 1970s and occasionally babysat me.

 

[The KSB]

More weird trivia, Jody Williams shares the same first name with man who sleeps with every Soldier's girlfriend while he's away from home.

 

[AKAK]

Weird trivia: Jody Williams worked as a receptionist for my Dad in the early/mid 1970s and occasionally babysat me.

Your Dad ever buy any pot from her?

 

[Taosman]

Doesn't pot effect memory?
I can't seem to recall it.

 

[Taosman]

Back to Norman Borlaug.................
A amazing, extraordinary effect one man has had on this planet.

 

[BB73]

Back to Norman Borlaug..................

Who is Norman Borlaug?
I can't seem to recall him.

 

[AKAK]

Who is Norman Borlaug?
I can't seem to recall him.

I think he figured out how to grow big Giant Cannibis plants.

 

[tibor75]

Nice read...

Alter: How Superficial Has Our Culture Become? - Newsweek Between the Lines - MSNBC.com

He Only Saved a Billion People

By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
July 30, 2007 issue - It's a trifecta much bigger and rarer than an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony. Only five people in history have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal: Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel ... and Norman Borlaug.

 

[Taosman]

I think he figured out how to grow big Giant Cannibis plants.

Naaa!
Was some guy at the New Buffalo Commune in Arroyo Hondo.
(Dennis Hopper)