IDIOT OF THE WEEK:
Wednesday, September 25th, 2002ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT LEVY MWANAWASA Now here’s a world leader who’s really scores high on the idiot quotient. Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who has refused donations of genetically modified corn from the U.S. to solve his country’s hunger crisis, has asked his starving countrymen to remain patient while “scientists investigate the issue.” Last month, Mr. Mwanawas’s government rejected corn donations from the United States, the largest donor of food to alleviate the southern African famine, because some of the American corn was genetically modified. Talk about political correctness gone mad. The Zambian government—taking its cues from the well-fed environmentalist lobby in Europe and America—said it was worried about the danger genetically-altered corn could pose to the health …