91.   Montana residents will decide whether to ban the use of cyanide in most open pit gold and silver mining.

92.   More importantly, the Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban the use of certain animal tissues in cattle feed.

93.   New Hampshire and Massachusetts ban the use of punch cards in elections.

94.   Most states now either prohibit capital punishment altogether or ban its use against the mentally retarded.

95.   Nearly a dozen countries have banned the use of land mines.

96.   Nine states ban the use of embryos for research.

97.   New York has banned the use of handheld phones while driving so that people can keep both hands on the wheel.

98.   On an unrelated matter, Clinton blasted Senate Republican leaders for postponing a vote on an international treaty banning the use of most chemical weapons.

99.   On Tuesday, President Clinton banned the use of federal money for cloning people and asked for a voluntary moratorium on the part of researchers supported by private funds.

100.   Pre-emptive action was ruled out, partly because American law bans the use of assassination as state policy.