a certain quantity of people dream ...

a certain quantity of people dream about designing a better mousetrap.

Dr Mark Manary would establish for growing a more nutritious cassava.

Now, the Washington University pediatrician and an international team of plant scientists have $75 million of Microsoft moulder Bill Gates' money to do just that. Resting in the balance: the diets -- and lives -- of ten of millions of population who live in sub-Sahara Africa.

Manary has a protracted history of aiding the impoverished. unwilted from pediatric training in 1985 Manary and his wife, Mardi, flew not on to work at a mission hospital in Tanzania for couple years. After returning to the United States, the tie moved to an Indian reservation before finally settling in St Louis.

But his desire to help the sternly malnourished people he had one time treated lingered. So, starting in 1994 he began making more than a dozen trips to Malawi, a home where nearly one ...