21.   Under Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, the state ordered it banned as a health hazard, but Pataki said DEET was needed to fight Lyme disease.

22.   Williams would be the sixth in Georgia to die by lethal injection, adopted by the state in October after electrocution was banned as cruel and unusual punishment.

23.   Police rounded up more Falun Gong followers Sunday, but protests were much smaller three days after the popular meditation group was banned as a threat to the government.

24.   Abortion, long taboo in this predominantly Roman Catholic country where the constitution bans it as murder, faces a historic trial this week.

25.   Although the move was banned as dangerous on the World Cup tour, Moseley successfully petitioned Olympic officials to allow it here.

26.   Authorities labeled the groups cults and banned them as a threat to communist rule and public safety.

27.   But the square is a site of frequent protests by members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement, which Communist leaders have banned as a cult.

28.   But school officials banned them as offensive, and on Monday the student lost a Supreme Court appeal.

29.   Chmura lawyer Gerald Boyle said the second statement by Michael Kleber was coerced and he wants it banned as evidence.

30.   Conservative Muslims want liquor banned as haram, or forbidden by Islamic teaching.