71.   The court ruled unanimously that states can ban doctor-assisted suicide.

72.   The sanctions require U.N. member states to ban junta leaders and their families from entering their territory and impose an oil and arms embargo on the West African nation.

73.   The state of war banned men of military age from leaving the country, let the army take over key institutions and subject the news media to censorship.

74.   The WTO has ruled three times that the EU has not produced enough evidence to satisfy international trade rules allowing states to ban items on public health grounds.

75.   Twenty-nine states have banned gay marriage.

76.   When the Supreme Court last considered executions of the mentally retarded, only two U.S. states banned the practice.

77.   Away from television lights and cameras, President Bill Clinton early Saturday quietly approved a bill allowing states to ban same-sex marriages.

78.   President Bill Clinton announced Friday that he would sign a controversial bill which allows states to ban same-sex marriages.