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...slavery--join today's political fray. One of John McCain's backers in last year's crucial South Carolina primary, for instance, was the editor of Southern Partisan. At the time, Bush and McCain were dodging the question of whether South Carolina should keep flying the Confederate battle flag over the state capitol, because they didn't want to alienate white Southern voters. The flag had flown there since 1962, a states'-rights rebuff to desegregation and a daily affront to blacks. In an attempt at conciliation, it was moved to another flagpole on the capitol grounds last July...
That symbol of the Old South is still causing trouble. Georgia and Mississippi face battles over their state flags, which incorporate elements of the Confederate flag. The flags may one day be redesigned, but the Civil War stays, because it was about the biggest questions we have: What is equality? Who should have power? What is America? We've never resolved those questions, which is why we remain on the battlefield...
...animal-rights activists, the leap from mouse to monkey will be a red flag. More broadly troubling, ANDi's success also raises the specter of human-germline gene engineering--that is, altering people's basic DNA so that any changes are passed on to their offspring. This sort of genetic tinkering, which could ultimately lead to "designer babies," artificially enhanced to be healthier, smarter or even more attractive, is currently far beyond our expertise. Nobody is likely to try to play God with humans in this way for decades...
...most vocal of them gathered near the Navy Memorial, where some managed to hoist down the American flag and raise their own, a black rag. Blue-helmeted riot police responded with batons and pepper spray...
...first international human rights campaign, as well as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." It's still there on the map, of course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem, too. Its government issues passports and postage stamps and national budgets, and maintains a standing army. But for most of its people, the government...