Dana Vaughn-Mgunda joined the Peace Corps after college, then ended up staying in Malawi and working at a refugee camp. It was there she met a young woman, and heard her story: the girl had been sold to a man and forced to work in a brothel.

The spike in home foreclosures is one factor in this economic debacle, and it's something Mimi Norris knows intimately: she inspects and cleans houses that have been foreclosed.Also in this epsiode: Michael Sweig was a maitre d' at Chicago's Pump Room in the early 1980s when one of his favorite celebrities, Richard Pryor, came in to the restaurant.

Dick recently asked listeners for stories of how they reconcile their divergent career paths - something Rupa Marya has been doing for a while.  Rupa is leader of the band Rupa and the April Fishes. But to her patients, she's known as Dr. Marya. Rupa has juggled her desire to be both a musician and a doctor since she was little. Also in this episode, everyone now seems to be plugged into a social network on the web: MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn. Jim Sollisch never wanted any part of electronic schmoozing, but he got tricked into joining LinkedIn by a friend.

With Obama's new team getting started in the White House, we look back at the administration of another young president who brought big changes - John F. Kennedy. 

Harold Brown was 33 when he was picked to work in that administration. Like other members of Kennedy's so-called "Best and Brightest," Harold was a research prodigy with little to no experience in government.