Word: banning
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...cloning clinic, lawmakers are rushing to enact broad restrictions against human cloning. To date, 19 European nations have signed an anticloning treaty. The Clinton Administration backs a proposal that would impose a five-year moratorium. House majority leader Dick Armey has thrown his weight behind a bill that would ban human cloning permanently, and at least 18 states are contemplating legislative action of their own. "This is the right thing to do, at the right time, for the sake of human dignity," said Armey last week. "How can you put a statute of limitations on right and wrong...
Human cloning will always be an absolute wrong. To compromise with such an evil is to surrender to it. Without delay, Congress should outlaw it totally and forever, setting exceptionally strong penalties for scientists who violate the ban. We must apply the brake of sanity to genetic engineering's locomotive. BEN MCKELWAY Plymouth, Mass...
...years ago, ED GILLESPIE was busy orchestrating the Republican takeover of Congress as the G.O.P.'s top spinmeister. Now the man behind the Contract with America is shifting to high tech as he battles a new foe: a plan to ban software capable of encoding messages so securely that police can't crack them. A law proposed by the FBI would mandate an electronic peephole in all encryption programs so that government agents can read your files. The FBI claims this is necessary to protect against criminals. But Silicon Valley chiefs see this as a threat, and are equipping Gillespie...
...quick response to the rare deaths, the NCAA elected to alter rules concerning weigh-ins and weight-loss techniques for the remainder of the season. The new rules imposed a ban on all "vapor-impermeable suits," and the use of what the NCAA calls a "hot room," defined as any room having a temperature of over 79 degrees Fahrenheit. These rules supplement the already-existing statutes banning the use of diuretics, laxatives, or self-induced vomiting. The NCAA will also attempt to establish an education platform, through which they hope to keep athletes aware of the dangers of pushing their...
...California to outlaw smoking in bars is ludicrous [AMERICAN SCENE, Jan. 12]. It is one thing to ban smoking in restaurants, public buildings, malls, stadiums, hospitals, but in bars? Cigarettes and alcohol go hand in hand. The tavern, pub and bar have been smoke-filled environments for centuries. C'mon, give us smokers a break! I bet the next thing we'll hear is that people who go outside to puff a cigarette are polluting California's air. I'm sure glad I don't live there. JENNIFER KRAEMER Dublin...