As Boeing pauses amid a push to achieve its highest production rates ever, the company and the Federal Aviation Administration are taking a closer look at quality. Both say safety has not been compromised, but veteran employees have raised concerns about the way planes are being assembled. By Faye Bowers. As this week's roller-coaster ride on the Dow Jones Industrial Average shows, the US is not immune, despite underlying strength of the American economy. By Peter Grier.
Truck drivers discuss Asian stock markets, and individual investors stop to stare at ticker tapes.
Final market numbers were not available at press time, but, so far, Main Street does not seem to be reaching for the panic button. By Ron Scherer. A high school course that seeks to teach the Bible as history has set the stage in Fort Meyers, Fla., for what looks to be the nation's next legal showdown over the place of religion in public schools. From Utah to North Carolina, students are enrolling in courses that seek to tell the past through the Bible. By Warren Richey.