'He only saved a billion people'

Jonathan Alter questions why Norman Borlaug's Congressional Gold Medal ceremony went overlooked by the media this last week. Borlaug is an agricultural scientist and University of Minnesota grad credited with jumpstarting the Green Revolution by creating agricultural techniques that doubled crop yields in many third world nations. This week he became only the fifth person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Article here.

(He's also apparently a former Big Ten wrestler and member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Doubt Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela can say that.)