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Former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes once described events in Afghanistan as an outside chronicler. She now calls Kandahar home and details her experiences of how life unfolded after the Taliban came to power in her new book The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. We'll talk with the Massachusetts native about the complicated politics inside the country, and the depth of her personal interest in making an impact there.

***This interview originally aired October 24, 2006.

Open the newspaper and you're bound to see pages and pages of foreclosure listings. In Rockingham County alone there were 253 foreclosures last year, nearly three times as many as in 2004. We'll look at what the factors may be behind the increase, if this is just the tip of the iceberg or a short term trend, and what this means for New Hampshire's housing market and overall economy. Laura's guests are Russ Thibeault, President of Applied Economic Research, a Laconia-based economic and real-estate consultant firm; Jerry Little, President of the New Hampshire Bankers Association, a non-profit trade association representing all the commercial and thrift banks in the state; and Dave Deziel, Spokesman for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of New Hampshire and Vermont.