In a valley where the houses are spread out for miles around the talismanic Lone Mountain, he anticipates that there will be plenty of takers for the ski-resort equivalent of a stadium box.

FORBES: Just the ticket

Rusts especially exercised him: how they lived, under the green live tissue of stems, how they spread, travelling for miles on the jet stream, and how they fell from the sky to infect even the healthiest crop, if the moisture and temperature were right.

ECONOMIST: Norman Borlaug