21.   BIG motorbikes are to be banned in all EC countries except Britain, it was agreed last night.

22.   The law, the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church, bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals.

23.   THE hard-core pornographic satellite station, Red Hot Television, is to be banned in Britain -- and now a court battle looms.

24.   Although high-interest loans are banned in Texas, the industry is finding ways around those limits, the forum was told.

25.   Also in Illinois, perch fishing is banned in June.

26.   Although the book is banned in China, the Chinese edition is sure to find its way home through the Internet and in smuggled copies.

27.   Already, lobster traps and other fixed fishing gear are banned in Cape Cod Bay during certain times of year to prevent even more entanglements.

28.   Although helmet-to-helmet hits are banned in some areas of the game, not so with fullbacks.

29.   Among them are the portions of the tobacco suit settlement going to anti-smoking programs and keeping smoking from being banned in bars and restaurants.

30.   And Congress will soon consider legislation to ban them in private insurance as well as government programs.