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We hear more communications from the plane carrying newly sworn-in President Lyndon B. Johnson and the White House Situation Room as the plane returns to Washington, D.C., from Dallas.

High gas prices have set off calls for conservation and investigation of price gouging. But among residents of Arizona, high gas prices have also provoked some less predictable reactions.

This week's entry in our summer reading series profiles Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and manager of the Human Genome Project. When not reading scientific journal articles, Collins spends time reading the Bible, the works of C.S. Lewis, and books that explore the interface between science and faith. He recommends Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (Cliff Street Books; ISBN: 0060930497) by Kenneth Miller and The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life (Free Press; ISBN: 0743202376) by Armand Nicholi.

Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist Art Buchwald has died at the age of 81. We listen to some memorable clips of Art Buchwald on NPR over the last 30 years. Also, Michele Norris talks with Buchwald's good friend Ben Bradlee, the vice president at large and former executive editor of The Washington Post.

The FAA orders spot checks on the weight of passengers on commuter planes to make sure estimates of average passenger weight are accurate. The ruling follows a fatal Jan. 8 crash in Charlotte, N.C. The plane may have been overloaded. NPR's Lynn Neary talks with New York Times aviation writer Matt Wald.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with NPR's Don Gonyea. A strike at a pair of General Motors brake plants in Dayton, Ohio is in its 14th day. Negotiators for the company and United Auto Workers local 6-9-6 talked all day yesterday...throughout last night...and all day today to try to settle the dispute. The main issue is GM's desire to cut costs by shipping some work to non-union supliers outside the company. It's not clear what's being accomplished at the bargaining table because of a news black-out. What is known is that the strike continues to affect GM plants across North America.(5:00) Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 1B 0:29 RETURN1 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 1C 5. SLAPP LAWSUITS -- NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on and lawsuit filed by landowners and developers who were prevented from building a Wal-Mart store in Hyde Park, New York. Such lawsuits, commonly called SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) suits, are becoming increasing popular with developers...who go after city officials and town activists who block their plans.

Matthew Dowd, the chief strategist for President Bush's 2004 campaign, stunned many by telling The New York Times he has lost faith in the president and feels it is time to withdraw troops from Iraq.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Andrew Kohut, Director of the Pew Center for People and the Press, and to Chris Matthews of CM Research, who does polling for Republican candidates, on the gender gap. They discuss why women appear to be staying away from Republican primaries; and why the political language of the Republican party in 1994 and again this year appears to be more appealing to men than to women. Both Matthews and Kohut suggest ways the GOP may be able to overcome what could be a serious problem for Senator Dole in the coming November elections. (7:30) IN STEREO 2B CUTAWAY 0:59 Funder 0:29 XPromo 0:29 CUTAWAY 2B 0:29 RETURN2 0:29 NEWS 2:59 NEWS 1:59 THEME MUSIC 0:29 2C 13. GM STRIKE -- Linda talks with Harley Shaiken, a labor specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, and David Cole, director of the Office for the Study of Automotive Transportation at the University of Michigan, about the strike at General Motors that has shut down 21 assembly plants across the country and threatens to escalate into a national ordeal. Cole talks about the industry's push to become leaner and their use of "just-in-time manufacturing." Following the lead of Japan, GM now keeps only a very small supply of critical components, like brakes, in stock. Shaiken explains how this practice gives union strikes considerable leverage because a small number of strikers can paralyze a large organization.

It's a tableau of biblical proportions, from the Nativity scene, to the tomb of Jesus, to the site of Mary's annunciation. Replicas of Christian shrines are on display at a Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. NPR's Jacki Lyden visits Holy Land of America.

Many people do not understand the difference between debit and credit cards. That was exemplified when we took an unscientific survey of people on the street in Washington, D.C. So, Lynn Neary turns to Ronnie Roha, associate editor of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, to answer the question at hand.