Sep 15th, 2009 - CBS News
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Mexicans began their Independence Day celebrations under heavy police surveillance Tuesday and with a somber memorial for eight revelers killed last year in a shocking grenade attack on the public by drug traffickers.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu placed flowers in the plaza in the colonial city of Morelia, where 106 people also were wounded in the first deliberate attack on civilians by cartels. Morelia is the state capital of President Felipe Calderon's home state of Michoacan, where La Familia drug gang is based.
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Norman Borlaug, researcher behind 'Green Revolution'
Sep 14th, 2009 - The Seattle Times
Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who is widely credited with saving more than a billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries, died Saturday in Texas...
University of Minnesota pays tribute to Borlaug
Sep 13th, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota is paying tribute to Nobel Prize-winning scientist and alumnus Norman Borlaug. Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger...
Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug dies at 95
Sep 13th, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who helped develop disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries, died Saturday. He was 95. Borlaug died from cancer complications in Dallas...
Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95
Sep 13th, 2009 - Washington Post
DALLAS -- Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives...
Brazil, France close to seal major arms deal
Sep 7th, 2009 - Press TV
Brazil has announced plans to ink a substantial arms contract with France, which would allow the South American state to buy 36 fighter jets. Brazilian President Luiz...
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