Focus 580 Archives for month of May 2007
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Tuesday May 01, 2007, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Indonesia
Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, Ambassador to the U.S. from the Republic of Indonesia
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Tuesday May 01, 2007, 11:06 AM
The History of the Indianapolis 500
Donald Davidson, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Historian
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Wednesday May 02, 2007, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Celebrating Cinco de Mayo
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday May 02, 2007, 11:06 AM
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
Jonathan Cook, Journalist
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Thursday May 03, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Plight of Returning Wounded Soldiers
Ronald J. Glasser, former military physician, pediatric nephrologists, and author of Wounded: Vietnam to Iraq
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Thursday May 03, 2007, 11:06 AM
Ike’s Final Battle: The Road to Little Rock and the Challenge of Equality
Kasey S. Pipes, author and political speech writer
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Friday May 04, 2007, 10:06 AM
The European Union at 50
Robert Pahre, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Union Center at the University of Illinois
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Friday May 04, 2007, 11:06 AM
Interview with Writer Peter Orner (recorded on April 19, 2007)
Peter Orner, Writer
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Monday May 07, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Jamestown Project
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Professor of History at New York University
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Monday May 07, 2007, 11:06 AM
Guantanamo: What’s at Stake
Gary Isaac, J.D., Attorney with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
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Tuesday May 08, 2007, 10:06 AM
Lawn & Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator at the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension in Champaign County
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Tuesday May 08, 2007, 11:06 AM
Long Term Eldercare in the U.S.
Robert L. Kane, Director of the Center on Aging, University of Minnesota
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Wednesday May 09, 2007, 10:06 AM
Black Elk, Holy Man of the Lakota
Raymond DeMallie, Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University
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Wednesday May 09, 2007, 11:06 AM
Back Care
James Harms, M.D., Surgeon at Carle Clinic’s Spine Institute
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Thursday May 10, 2007, 10:06 AM
The 2007 Farm Bills
Robert Thompson, Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy at the University of Illinois
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Thursday May 10, 2007, 11:06 AM
Cells of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell
Cynthia Fox, Award-winning science writer
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Friday May 11, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Status of Community Mental Health in the United States
Christopher R. Larrison, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois
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Friday May 11, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing
Stefan Halper, Senior Fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre of International Studies and Director of the Donner Atlantic Studies Programme
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Monday May 14, 2007, 10:06 AM
Women in Literature: Chick Lit and Beyond
Iryce Baron, instructor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Gender issues • Literature
Monday May 14, 2007, 11:06 AM
Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard-Luck Horse Track
T.D. Thorton, Journalist
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Tuesday May 15, 2007, 10:06 AM
Interview with Chancellor Richard Herman
Richard Herman, Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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Categories: Education
Tuesday May 15, 2007, 11:06 AM
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Jed Horne, Metro Editor of The Times-Picayune and Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Categories: Media and journalism
Wednesday May 16, 2007, 11:06 AM
Almost Human: Making Robots Think
Lee Gutkind, founder of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh
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Wednesday May 16, 2007, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Egypt
Ken Cuno, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois
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Categories: International Affairs • Politics • Middle East
Thursday May 17, 2007, 11:06 AM
Shattered Nerves: How Science is Solving Modern Medicine’s Most Perplexing Problem
Victor D. Chase, Science and Technology Writer
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Thursday May 17, 2007, 10:06 AM
Food Allergy: Detecting, Treating and Being Aware of It
Wesley Burks, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine
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Friday May 18, 2007, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois
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Friday May 18, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Lie Detector: The History of an American Obsession
Ken Alder, Professor of History and the Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University
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Monday May 21, 2007, 10:06 AM
Home Inspection
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection Service
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Monday May 21, 2007, 11:06 AM
Women’s Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the Women’s Health Practice, Champaign
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Tuesday May 22, 2007, 10:06 AM
Writing Mystery Books
Craig Johnson, Writer
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Tuesday May 22, 2007, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Somalia
Abdiweli Ali, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics at Niagara University and Lidwien Kapteijns, the Kendall/Hodder Professor of History at Wellesley College
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Wednesday May 23, 2007, 10:06 AM
St. Louis: Politics, Crime and Rebirth
Lana Stein, Ph.D., Chair and Professor of Political Science and Department Chair at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Richard Rosenfeld, Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Wednesday May 23, 2007, 11:06 AM
THE CIGARETTE CENTURY: THE RISE, FALL, AND DEADLY PERSISTENCE OF THE PRODUCT THAT DEFINED AMERICA
Allan M. Brandt, Professor of History of Medicine at Harvard University Medical School and a Professor in the History of Science Department, Harvard University
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Thursday May 24, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Impossible
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Thursday May 24, 2007, 11:06 AM
Family Response to Economic Stress
Rand Conger, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of California
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Friday May 25, 2007, 10:06 AM
Insect Pests
Philip Nixon, Extension Entomologist, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois
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Friday May 25, 2007, 11:06 AM
Children’s Health
Malcolm Hill, M.D., Pediatrician at Carle Clinic
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Monday May 28, 2007, 10:06 AM
After Castro: America and Cuba - An American Abroad Special from PRI
This is a preemption for special programming
Monday May 28, 2007, 11:06 AM
Feeling the Heat: The Global Politics of Climate Change - An America Abroad Special from PRI
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Tuesday May 29, 2007, 10:06 AM
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America 1919
Ann Hagedorn, Award Winning Journalist
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Tuesday May 29, 2007, 11:06 AM
Insects
May Berenbaum, Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois
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Wednesday May 30, 2007, 10:06 AM
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Erskine Clarke, Professor of American Religious History at Columbia Theological Seminary and Award Winning Writer
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Wednesday May 30, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Corporatization of Journalism
John Lavine, Professor of Media Management and Strategy in the Medill School of Journalism, and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
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Thursday May 31, 2007, 10:06 AM
American National Security Policy: Do We Rely Too Much on the Military?
Gordon M. Adams, Ph.D., Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Thursday May 31, 2007, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Turkey
Resat Kasaba, Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington
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