Cousin Sam: September 2022

Maury Wills, who worked hard to achieve stardom with the Los Angeles Dodgers, then worked just as hard to regain dignity and standing within baseball through sobriety, has died, the team announced Tuesday. Wills died Monday night at his home in Sedona, Arizona. He was 89. A light-hitting shortstop who spent nearly a decade in the minor leagues, including 1958 and ’59 with the Triple-A Spokane Indians, Wills honed his limited skills, studied pitchers’ tendencies and learned to switch-hit, earning a shot with the Dodgers, then helped take them to three World Series titles in four tries while reintroducing base-stealing to baseball as a major weapon.

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Centers of Progress, Pt. 40: San Francisco (Digital Revolution)

Our 40th Center of Progress is San Francisco during the digital revolution, when entrepreneurs founded several major technology companies in the area. The southern portion of the broader San Francisco Bay Area earned the metonym “Silicon Valley” because of the high-technology hub’s association with the silicon transistor, used in all modern microprocessors. A microprocessor is the central unit or engine of a computer system, fabricated on a single chip.

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Heroes of Progress, Pt. 52: Yuan Longping

This week our hero is Yuan Longping, a Chinese agronomist dubbed “the father of hybrid rice.” In the early 1970s, Yuan developed the first variant of high-yield hybrid rice. Yuan’s discoveries, coupled with breakthroughs in wheat hybridization in the 1950s and 1960s by our first Hero of Progress, Norman Borlaug, helped usher in the Green Revolution, which reduced the likelihood of famine in most of the world. As rice is the staple food for approximately half the world’s population, by increasing the plant’s yield, Yuan’s work helped save millions of lives. By the late 1990s, the excess yield brought about by Yuan’s hybrid rice fed an additional 100 million Chinese people each year. Today, varieties of Yuan’s rice are grown in more than 60 countries worldwide.

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