Word: outlawed
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...BRITAIN Human Clones Ban Britain became the first country to announce a ban on human reproductive cloning. Health Secretary Alan Milburn said the government would enact legislation within months to outlaw the practice, but would dedicate more funding to other genetic research. Human cloning is already banned by the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, which has the power to grant licenses, but the new move would create a permanent statutory ban. Milburn said the government would invest another $43 million in genetic screening, enabling Britain to offer free testing to women with an inherited risk of breast cancer...
...Scoop) Nisker, a legendary local radio commentator whose smooth voice has been practically synonymous with Bay Area counterculture for 30 years. "Ever since its inception, San Francisco has been a place where adventurers came, the last outpost of the continent, where you could experience a sense of rugged, outlaw freedom. Now it feels like a theme park of itself--the San Francisco Experience...
Since Beat first stepped onto a striptease stage to perform a comedy routine in 1972, he has projected this almost split personality. He has been both the archetypal Japanese macho man?the rebel, the outlaw, the yakuza?while also playing the subversive clown prince version of all those cherished tough guys. Those phoned-in TV appearances are just the flip side of the stylized cinematic tough guy. Beat plays off the public's awareness of who he is. That farcical gangster on the set of low-budget TV shows is all the more lovable because he's the deadly gangster...
...perm that involves gluing lashes to a cotton roll and exposing them to curling chemicals for 20 minutes. But be careful; safety questions remain about some of these procedures. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved any permanent dyes for the eye area, and some states outlaw them...
...Texas. Alone among the states, Texas operates its own electricity grid, which makes it less vulnerable to the various bottlenecks in the national system; it imports less than 1% of its power. Like Pennsylvania, Texas didn't require utilities to sell off their plants, and it didn't outlaw long-term contracts. Says state senator Steve Wolens, who co-authored the deregulation bill: "We learned in California that you can't deregulate and keep the government's fist around the market's throat...