Word: bans
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...state legislature may well be considering a restaurant-wide smoking ban. State Sen. Lucille Hicks (R-Weyland) has introduced a bill that would ban smoking in all public dining rooms in Massachusetts...
While the bill is expected to face heated opposition from the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, Cambridge supports a state-wide ban...
...many professors insist that even a limited ban can't work; others think it shouldn't be tried. Most college students, after all, are legal adults, capable of consent, and a university of all places should respect personal liberty. Professor bell hooks at City College in New York, who had affairs with professors while a student and once became the lover of a younger man after she had taught him, says, "No feminist thinks that banning abortions would keep women from having them. So why do we think that banning relationships between faculty and students will keep them from having...
...what's fun for Brandy's girls may soon be fodder for cyber vice squads. Late last week, as part of an omnibus bill that would overhaul telecommunications policy for the first time in more than 60 years, the Senate Commerce Committee proposed a ban on pornography in cyberspace. The plan, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1995, would make it a crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and two years in jail, to transmit "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" images, E-mail, text files and any other form of communication online...
House Speaker Newt Gingrich today said Republicans intend to dismantlePresident Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays in the military, reverting to the old outright ban on homosexuals. Gingrich plans to make the change in the defense authorization bill, which usually goes to the House floor in the summer. Gingrich believes the ban is "the correct position," although it has been ruled unconstitutional by federal judges. Last week, a federal judge also ruled that the Clinton Administration's "don't ask don't tell" policy is unconstitutional, because it impinges on free speech.TIME defense correspondent Mark...