Norman Borlaug
| 5:00PM 9/23/2009
The greatest potato consumer in the U.S. is McDonalds (MCD), which buys 1.5 million tons of spuds every year to make french fries for the world. Of course, buying so much of a single commodity means McDonald's choices greatly affect the rest of the country -- and it makes the company an easy target...
| 6:10PM 9/15/2009
On Saturday, Nobel Prize winning agronomist Norman Borlaug died. He was 95.
Known as "the father of the Green Revolution," Borlaug was one of America's three five living Nobel peace prize winners. While the others -- Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger and Elie Wiesel -- are household names,...