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Article: NORMAN BORLAUG: 1914-2009; `Apostle of Wheat' Borlaug had deep Minnesota roots .(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 14, 2009
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Byline: ROCHELLE OLSON; SHARON SCHMICKLE; STAFF WRITERS
In the final days of a nearly three-year battle with lymphoma, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Borlaug was asked by his daughter if he needed anything.
The 95-year-old responded: "Africa. Africa. I have not finished my mission in Africa," his daughter, Jeanie Borlaug Laube, said Sunday from Dallas.
Norman Borlaug, an Iowa farmboy who graduated from the University of Minnesota, believed food was a moral right. He traveled the world as a scientist and humanitarian, becoming the Green Revolution's "Apostle of Wheat" for the high-yield grain he perfected.
Borlaug, who most recently ...