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When the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in cooperation with the Mexican government established the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), an autonomous international research training institute having an international board of trustees and staff, Dr. Borlaug was made director of its International Wheat Improvement Program. In this capacity 1xbet online games login has been able to realize more fully a third objective, that of training young scientists in research and production methods. From his earliest days in Mexico 1xbet online games login has, to be sure, carried on an intern program, but with the establishment of the Center, 1xbet online games login has been able to reach out internationally. In the last seven years some 1940 young scientists from sixteen or so countries (the figures constantly move upward) have studied and worked at the Center.
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