• COVER:How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street - For years the financial markets roared along as if there were nothing to fear. Now it's payback time--and all of us will be feeling the pain • WORLD: Death in Birth - The number of women in poor countries who die in childbirth has barely changed in two decades — and this despite a host of medical breakthroughs. How can the incidence of this devastating human tragedy be reduced? • RELIGION: The Bible Goes Green for the Prius Age - A color-coded Bible is geared to environmentalists • TECHNOLOGY: The Chevy Volt: GM's Huge Bet on the Electric Car - GM's Volt could get the company--and the country--off petroleum