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In the late '60s, social and political storms turned Cubberley High School into a crucible of activism. This weekend, as the Class of ’71 gathers for a delayed 50th reunion, I’m thinking about how extraordinary Cubberley was.
Recent research takes a much more sceptical view on the movement.
Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.
Geneticist MS Swaminathan who led Indias push in the 1960s to become grain surplus, promoting the use of hybrid varieties and chemical fertilisers as the need of the hour, passed away at his residence in Chennai at 11.15am Thursday. He was 98.