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A lot of us look at the transitional month of September wistfully. The carefree days of summer are over, and we’re on to another grade – even if that…

Commentator Marianne Jennings wonders about people who are addicted to their day planners...they are obsessed with organizing everything in their lives. It takes so much time to keep up with your day planner--there's so much writing and reviewing she wonders how anyone gets anything done...and says we all managed just fine without them.

NPR's Allison Aubrey reports on a group of people who have learned to ride the ups and downs of the current "bear market." They're day-traders, and while many of the amateurs in their ranks were driven out after a few initial lucky trades, some are still plugging away -- and making a profit.

In the tropical jungle outside Saigon, commentator Robert Franklin visited the Cao-Dai, a syncretic religious group that pulls from Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Islam, Confucianism, Judaism and Christianity. Their fantastic, beautiful and ornate compound is in the middle of people living in extreme poverty, and it reminds Franklin that that religions may be better at dispensing charity than demonstrating justice.

As the world marks 71 years since the Nazi concentration camp was liberated, Shira Springer shares this story.

On his first full day in office, President George W. Bush started the day at Sunday service at Washington National Cathedral. NPR's Emily Harris reports that the party's over and the real work begins.

Commentator Patrick Maney says the fascination with the first 100 days of the American presidential term started with the successes of President Franklin Roosevelt.

In this final round, contestants answer trivia where every answer ends with the word or sound "day."

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports that Russia's President Vladimir Putin has declared today a day of mourning in honor of the 118 men who perished when the Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea.

Jennifer Griffin reports on the day of mourning in Lebanon. Even as services were being held, Israeli shells were falling near Cana, the site of last Thursday's shelling, where some 100 refugees were killed.