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Afternoon Magazine Archives for month of August 2007

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Monday thru Friday noon to 4 pm Central

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

1:06 pm

The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values In A Dangerous World

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University

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Categories: Cultural Studies

Thursday, August 02, 2007

1:06 pm

Sin In The Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, And The Battle For America’s Soul

Karen Abbott, Journalist

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Categories: Cultural Studies

Friday, August 03, 2007

1:06 pm

Dog Behavior

Carole Lindholm, Dog Trainer

Jim Kuehl, Dog Trainer

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Categories: Animals

Monday, August 06, 2007

1:06 pm

Talk To The Nutritionist

Susan Kundrat, R.D., Owner of Nutrition On The Move

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Categories: Food

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

1:06 pm

One Perfect Day: The Selling Of The American Wedding

Rebecca Mead, Staff Writer for The New Yorker

This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, May 24, 2007, 1:06 pm

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Categories: Cultural Studies

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

1:06 pm

The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead To Happier, Healthier Children

David Elkind, Ph.D., Professor of Child Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University

This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, February 16, 2007, 1:06 pm

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Categories: Family

Thursday, August 09, 2007

1:06 pm

Bento Box In The Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood In Whitebread America, A Food Memoir

Linda Furiya, Writer

This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 1:06 pm

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Categories: Cultural Studies

Friday, August 10, 2007

1:06 pm

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour Of The Beautiful Basics Of Science

Natalie Angier, Pulitzer Prize Winning Science Writer for the New York Times

This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, May 18, 2007, 1:06 pm

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Categories: Science

Monday, August 13, 2007

1:06 pm

Same Time Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961

James Baughman, Professor and Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin

Guest Host: Jim Meadows

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Categories: Media and journalism

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

1:06 pm

Late Summer Gardening

Dianne Noland, Host of WILL-TV’s Illinois Gardener

Charles Voigt, Principal Research Specialist in Agriculture at the University of Illinois

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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

1:06 pm

The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist’s Guide

Neil F. Comins, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Maine and a Harlow Shapely Lecturer for the American Astronomical Society

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Categories: ScienceAstronomy

Thursday, August 16, 2007

1:06 pm

The Original Knickerbocker: The Life Of Washington Irving

Andrew Burstein, Mary Frances Barnard Professor of 19th Century U.S. History at the University of Tulsa

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Categories: HistoryUnited States history

Friday, August 17, 2007

1:06 pm

Her Way: The Hopes And Ambitions Of Hillary Rodham Clinton

Don Van Natta, Jr., Investigative Reporter at the New York Times

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Categories: Politics

Monday, August 20, 2007

1:06 pm

Computers and You

Greg Kline, Technology Journalist with The News-Gazette

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Categories: TechnologyComputers

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

1:06 pm

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, And Power In The Contemporary World

Carolyn Nordstrom, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame

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Categories: International Affairs

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

1:06 pm

A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits Of Disorder

David H. Freedman, Contributing Editor and the Technology Columnist at Inc. Magazine

This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, February 08, 2007, 1:06 pm

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Categories: Technology

Thursday, August 23, 2007

1:06 pm

The Father Of All Things: A Marine, His Son, And The Legacy Of Vietnam

Tom Bissell, Award Winning Writer

This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, March 29, 2007, 1:06 pm

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Categories: HistoryUnited States historyMilitary

Friday, August 24, 2007

1:06 pm

Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade

Donald T. Critchlow, Professor of History at Saint Louis University

This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, January 04, 2006, 1:06 pm

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Categories: Cultural StudiesPolitics

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

1:06 pm

The Maverick And The Machine: Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story

Dan Walker, Governor of Illinois 1973-1977

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Categories: Agriculture

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

1:06 pm

China Road: A Journey Into The Future Of A Rising Power

Rob Gifford, NPR’s Beijing Correspondent from 1999-2005 and currently NPR’s London Bureau Chief

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Categories: International Affairs

Thursday, August 30, 2007

1:06 pm

A Moveable Feast: Ten Millennia Of Food Globalization

Kenneth F. Kiple, Distinguished University Professor at Bowling Green State University

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Categories: Food

Friday, August 31, 2007

1:06 pm

Tested: One American School Struggles To Make The Grade

Linda Perlstein, Journalist

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Categories: Education

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