The Death of Man Who Saved 1 Billion People Ignored by Media

You want to know whats wrong with the world, especially America. Norman Borlaug, is credited with saving hundreds of millions of people from starvation and you probably never heard of him. He died yesterday with very little acknowledgment. Conversely, Ellen DeGeneres, who was named the new judge on American Idol, received far greater press coverage. Is it any wonder that this planet is going to hell-in-a-handbasket:

Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel peace prize for his role in combating world hunger, has died at the age of 95, a spokesman for Texas A&M University said today.

Borlaug won the Nobel in 1970 for his contributions to the science of high-yield crop varieties and bringing other agricultural innovations to the developing world. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine.

Thanks to the revolution, world food production more than doubled between 1960 and 1990. In Pakistan and India, two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain yields more than quadrupled over the period.

"More than any other single person of his age, he has helped to provide bread for a hungry world," the Nobel committee chairman, Aase Lionaes, said in presenting the award to Borlaug.

"We would like his life to be a model for making a difference in the lives of others and to bring about efforts to end human misery for all mankind," his children said in a statement after Borlaug died at his home in Dallas, Texas, on Saturday.