Yeah, Norman Borlaug died around about the same time Swayze did. The sad thing is that the actor's death overshadowed nearly all news about Borlaug. While I've talked about it before, I stumbled upon a really good blog post that describes some of the things Borlaug did:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/an ... le1293395/
Here's the thing: We're more concerned when entertainers die and couldn't give a flying leap when a man credited with saving more than a billion people from starvation passes on. Priorities? Yeah, they're messed up.