Founder of the Des Moines-based World Food Prize, Norman Borlaug, will receive the Congressional Gold Medal. The House voted today to give Borlaug the award -- the nation's
highest civilian honor. The Senate approved it earlier. The 92-year-old Borlaug, who's from Cresco, won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in plant genetics. His work
helped fight starvation in countries like India and Pakistan in the 1960s. Borlaug teaches at Texas A-and-M University and lives in Texas.
