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Dumaguete City vice mayor dies after joining bike run

Golden Rice s unfulfilled promise

By Crispin Maslog MANILA: Golden Rice, announced two decades ago as the answer to Vitamin A deficiency, is nowhere near production. In 2000, a Time magazine cover announced the sprouting of “Golden Rice”, promising to enhance nutrition for millions of poverty-stricken rice-eating Asians. The magazine showed the father of Golden Rice, Swiss plant researcher Ingo Potrykus, touting it as “rice that could save a million lives a year”. (1) A diet of Golden Rice pale yellow because of genetically embedded beta carotene from which Vitamin A is made by the human body could bring rice-eating consumers the gift of life and sight.

Domini Torrevillas, 80

Domini Torrevillas, 80 Photo from Domini Torrevillas Facebook page. AT 80, Domini Torrevillas was still writing and filing her column, From the Stands for The Philippine Star. A brief fatal illness ended 49 years of work as a journalist and a life lived with zest and in its fullness. She died in her native Gingoog City in Misamis Oriental where she and her husband, peace advocate, Saeed Daof, had moved to live their retirement years. It was her place of birth, where she grew up and finished high school at the Gingoog Institute. Domini finished her AB degree in Silliman University and spent a year of study at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where she earned her Masters degree in 1967. Silliman University recognized her work as journalist with the Outstanding Silliman Award in .

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