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Afternoon Magazine Archives for month of December 2007

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Monday thru Friday noon to 4 pm Central

Monday, December 03, 2007

1:06 pm

Talk To The Nutritionist

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

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Categories: FoodHealth

Monday, December 03, 2007

2:45 pm

Holiday Book Presents for Children and Young Adults

Katie Gross, Children's Librarian at the Decatur Public Library

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Categories: FamilyLiterature

Tuesday, December 04, 2007

*Aft Mag preempted by Special Programming*

1:06 pm

National Public Radio/Iowa Public Radio Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate

Guest Host: NPR's Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Steve Inskeep

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

1:06 pm

America Beyond Black And White: How Immigrants And Fusions Are Helping Us Overcome The Racial Divide

Ronald Fernandez, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Central Connecticut State University, Writer and Public Speaker

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Categories: CommunityPoliticsRace/EthnicityLatino/Latina affairs

Thursday, December 06, 2007

1:06 pm

The Great Funk: Falling Apart And Coming Together (On A Shag Rug) In The Seventies

Thomas Hine, Writer on History, Culture and Design

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Categories: Cultural StudiesHistoryUnited States history

Friday, December 07, 2007

1:06 pm

Dog Behavior

Carole Lindholm and Jim Kuehl, Dog Trainers

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Categories: AnimalsCommunity

Monday, December 10, 2007

1:06 pm

Schulz And Peanuts: A Biography

David Michaelis, Writer

Guest Host: Jim Meadows

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Categories: BiographyCultural StudiesMedia and journalism

Monday, December 10, 2007

2:45 pm

Gift Book Recommendations for Children and Young Adults

Katie Gross, Children's Librarian at the Decatur Public Library

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Categories: CommunityLiterature

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

1:06 pm

Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations

Vincent Virga, Picture Editor

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Categories: GeographyHistory

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

2:45 pm

Hug Time

Patrick McDonnell, Creator of the comic strip Mutts

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Categories: AnimalsCommunity

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

1:06 pm

Powerhouse: Arrington From Illinois

Taylor Pensoneau, Journalist formerly with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Categories: Biography

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

2:45 pm

How To Build An Igloo And Other Snow Shelters

Norbert E. Yankielun, Ph.D., A Research Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Cold Regions Laboratory in New Hampshire

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Categories: ArchitectureArt and DesignEnvironment

Thursday, December 13, 2007

1:06 pm

Silent Movies: The Birth Of Film And The Triumph Of Movie Culture

Peter Kobel, Former Managing Editor of Premiere magazine and Writer

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Categories: Art and DesignCinema/Theatres/Film

Thursday, December 13, 2007

2:45 pm

The Chorale: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years and "Just Folk" Concert on December 31, 7:00 P.M at the Virginia Theatre

Julie Beyler, Conductor and Founding Music Director

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Categories: CommunityMusic

Friday, December 14, 2007

1:06 pm

The Ordeal Of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman In World History

Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University

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Categories: BiographyCultural StudiesHistory

Friday, December 14, 2007

2:45 pm

Artist Bea Nettles' Tarot Art and How It Came to Grace Bruce Spingsteen's Grammy-Nominated Recording, "Magic"

Bea Nettles, Artist, Photographer and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Illinois

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Categories: Art and DesignMusic

Monday, December 17, 2007

1:06 pm

Computers and You

Greg Kline, Technology Journalist with The News-Gazette

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Categories: TechnologyComputers

Monday, December 17, 2007

2:45 pm

The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock & Roll And Sonic Storytelling

Mitch Myers, Writer, Historian, Psychologist, Storyteller, NPR Commentator

Guest Host: Jeff Bossert, Host

recorded on 12/13/07

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Categories: Music

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

1:06 pm

No: Why Kids --Of All Ages--Need To Hear It And Ways Parents Can Say It

David Walsh, Ph.D., President and Founder of the National Institute on Media and the Family in Minneapolis, Award-Winning Psychologist,, and Educator

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Categories: FamilyPsychology

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

2:45 pm

Prairieland Communtiy Supported Agriculture

Anna Barnes, Program Coordinator

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Categories: AgricultureFood

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

2:45 pm

108th Annual Christmas Bird Count

Bob Fisher, Past President of Bird Conservation Network

Geoff LeBaron, National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count director

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Categories: Wildlife

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

1:06 pm

A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind Explorer, Naturalist, And Buccaneer: The Life Of William Dampier

Diana Preston, Writer

This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, April 30, 2004, 1:06 pm

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

1:06 pm

The Emperor Of Scent: A Story Of Perfume, Obsession, And The Last Mystery Of The Senses

Chandler Burr, Journalist

This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, February 11, 2003, 1:06 pm

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Friday, December 21, 2007

1:06 pm

Infinite Life: Seven Virtues For Living Well

Robert Thurman, Professor at Columbia University, a Scholar, Writer and former Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Director of Tibet House

This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, March 19, 2004, 1:06 pm

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Categories: CommunityEconomicsFamilyGovernmentPolitics

Monday, December 24, 2007

*Aft Mag preempted by Special Programming*

1:06 pm

Zorba Paster On Your Health: In The Kitchen For The Holidays

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

*Aft Mag preempted by Special Programming*

1:06 pm

"Widgets To Digits" from University High School Students

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

1:06 pm

Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing And Curious Life Of Miss Florence Nightingale

Gillian Gill, Writer and Scholar

This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, November 08, 2004, 1:06 pm

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Thursday, December 27, 2007

1:06 pm

Skin: A Natural History

Nina G. Jablonski, Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University

This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, November 21, 2006, 1:06 pm

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Friday, December 28, 2007

1:06 pm

The Planets

Dava Sobel, Award Winning Science Writer

This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, October 24, 2005, 1:06 pm

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Monday, December 31, 2007

*Aft Mag preempted by Special Programming*

1:06 pm

Third Coast Festival

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