Infertility

The minister was speaking during the official opening of the roundtable discussions by co-ordinators of Agricultural Biotechnology Network in Africa (ABNETA) at a Nairobi hotel.

Wekesa added that poor storage technology in the continent was eating up the little harvest, resulting in starvation.

He said a policy that would enable the country’s full participation in the rapidly evolving biotechnology revolution was underway.

ABNETA co-ordinator, Prof Norah Olembo, said the network was designed to increase food security in Africa by receiving and circulating information on aspects of biotechnology for plant conservation and use.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation, in collaboration with Africa Biotechnology stakeholders Forum (ABSF), had established an interactive web portal on biotechnology for east and central African countries, she said.

"The website is expected to encourage and stimulate exchange of information among experts, empower the public with information on agricultural biotechnology for informed decisions and explore its safety as a tool for food security and environmental management," she said.

Prof Olembo said biotechnology would play a key role in increasing food production in Africa.

Scientists and experts from Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda,...

"Over the first 13 seasons of his career," Mr.

Williams and Mr.

Fainaru-Wada write, "from 1986-1998, Bonds hit .290 and averaged 32 home runs and 93 RBI.

He hit one home run every 16 at-bats.

But in the six seasons after he began using performance-enhancing drugs — that is, from 1999 to 2004, between the ages of 34 and 40 — Bonds's batting line averaged .328, 49 and 105.

That represented 17 additional home runs and 12 additional RBI per year.

He would hit a home run every 8.4 at-bats."At the time, much of the baseball world wanted to ignore rumors about Mr.

Bonds's steroid use, just as it had tried to ignore questions about Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa's gaudy home-run tear in 1998.

After the 1994 strike, a power surge in the game helped reignite fan interest — "chicks dig the long ball," in the words of an old Nike commercial — and many reasons besides rising steroid use were advanced for the home-run boom: smaller ballparks, a smaller strike zone, more expansion teams (which meant a dilution of the pitching ranks).

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