Focus 580 Archives for month of October 2007
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday October 01, 2007, 10:06 AM
Water Resources
Mark Shannon, J.W. Bayne Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with Systems Center at the University of Illinois
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, August 14, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Environment • Water resources
Monday October 01, 2007, 11:06 AM
Spook Country
William Gibson, Novelist
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, August 20, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Literature
Tuesday October 02, 2007, 10:06 AM
Car Care
Rick Karch, Owner of Rick’s Automotive
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Categories: Automotive
Tuesday October 02, 2007, 11:06 AM
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, The Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Eboo Patel, Founder and Executive Director of the Interfaith Youth Core
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Categories: Religion
Wednesday October 03, 2007, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Restrictive Diets
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday October 03, 2007, 11:06 AM
Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: a Woman’s Journey Through Iraq
Hadani Ditmars , Canadian Journalist
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Categories: Gender issues • Religion • War • Middle East
Thursday October 04, 2007, 10:06 AM
A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming
Michael Northcott, Professor of Ethics at the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change • Religion
Thursday October 04, 2007, 11:06 AM
Thoughts on the Fabrication and Escalation of a New Nationalism and Vigilantism in Turkey
Halil Berktay, Associate Professor of History, Sabanci University, Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard University
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Categories: International Affairs
Friday October 05, 2007, 10:06 AM
Understanding America's Immigration ‘Crisis’
Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University
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Categories: Human Rights • International Affairs • Politics
Friday October 05, 2007, 11:06 AM
Shareholder Activism: What Works, What Doesn’t and Why it Matters
Patricia Daly, Executive Director, Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Labor/worker issues
Monday October 08, 2007, 10:06 AM
Interview with Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Novelist, Playwright and Filmmaker from Zimbabwe
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Categories: Literature • Africa
Monday October 08, 2007, 11:06 AM
Talk With The Family Practice Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician at Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Tuesday October 09, 2007, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Cooperative Extension in Champaign County
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture • Landscape
Tuesday October 09, 2007, 11:06 AM
Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz
Jan Gross, Visiting Scholar, UIUC, and Professor of War and Society, Princeton University
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Categories: Civil Rights • Cultural Studies • History • Religion
Wednesday October 10, 2007, 10:06 AM
After The Reich: The Brutal History Of The Allied Occupation
Giles MacDonogh, Journalist
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • War
Wednesday October 10, 2007, 11:06 AM
Lessons from Superconductivity
Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate, 1979 and Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
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Categories: Education • Energy
Thursday October 11, 2007, 10:06 AM
Prodigal Soldiers: How The Generation Of Officers Born Of Vietnam Revolutionized The American Style Of War
James Kitfield, Foreign Policy Correspondent for The National Journal Magazine
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Categories: History • Military • National Security • War
Thursday October 11, 2007, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Burma
Ken MacLean, Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change at Clark University
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Categories: Human Rights • International Affairs
Friday October 12, 2007, 10:06 AM
Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, And The Environment
Tom McCarthy, Associate Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy
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Categories: Automotive • Consumer issues • Cultural Studies • History • United States history
Friday October 12, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division: Its Origin, History, and Why It Matters
Brian K. Landsberg, University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law; U.S. Department of Justice
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Categories: Civil Rights • Law
Monday October 15, 2007, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection Service
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Categories: How-to
Monday October 15, 2007, 11:06 AM
Interview
Susan Power, Writer, Activist, Member of the Standing Rock Sioux of North Dakota
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Categories: Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans
Tuesday October 16, 2007, 10:06 AM
Books
Stephen Lyons, Author of A View from the Inland Northwest: Everyday Life in America and Landscape Of the Heart: Writings on Daughters and Journeys
Kelly Strom, Collection Manager at the Champaign Public Library
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Tuesday October 16, 2007, 10:06 AM
Books
Gale Walden, Chicago Sun Times Book Reviewer, Poet and Writer
Carol Spindel, Writer, author of Dancing At Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots, and The Sacred Grove
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Wednesday October 17, 2007, 10:06 AM
Creative Arts and Community Activism
Michael Reyes, Chicano Mexican Poet, Actor and Youth Organizer
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Wednesday October 17, 2007, 11:06 AM
Politics in the Classroom
Matthew W. Finkin, Director of the Program in Comparative Labor and Employment Law Policy at the University of Illinois
Brian Gaines, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Education • Politics
Thursday October 18, 2007, 10:06 AM
China in the Year 2027
Daniel H. Bays, Professor of History and Head of Asian Studies at Calvin College
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Categories: China
Thursday October 18, 2007, 11:06 AM
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal, Award Winning Biographer
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Categories: Biography • Race/Ethnicity • Africa
Friday October 19, 2007, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Personal Finance
Friday October 19, 2007, 11:06 AM
Sputnik: The Shock of The Century
Paul Dickson, Writer
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Categories: History • United States history • Science
Monday October 22, 2007, 10:06 AM
Insects
May Berenbaum, Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Insects
Monday October 22, 2007, 10:06 AM
Stoic Warriors
Nancy Sherman, Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University
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Tuesday October 23, 2007, 10:06 AM
Ecological Education
David W. Orr, Chair of the Environmental Studies Program at Oberlin College
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Categories: Education • Environment
Tuesday October 23, 2007, 11:06 AM
Alcohol Can Be a Gas: Fueling An Ethanol Revolution For The 21st Century
David Blume, Founder and Director of American Homegrown Fuel Co., Inc
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Categories: Consumer issues • Energy • Environment
Wednesday October 24, 2007, 10:06 AM
Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why it Matters, And What We Can Do To Get It Back
John Kao, Founder of Kao & Company
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Education • History • United States history
Wednesday October 24, 2007, 11:06 AM
Al Qaeda and Iraq
Paul Cruickshank, Journalist and Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law
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Categories: Terrorism • Middle East
Monday October 29, 2007, 10:06 AM
WILL and Public Television
Carl Caldwell, WILL TV Station Manager
David Thiel, Director of Programming at WILL TV
Guest Host: David Thiel
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Categories: Media and journalism
Monday October 29, 2007, 11:06 AM
We’re All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law In The Internet Age
Scott Gant, Lawyer and Author
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, August 29, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Media and journalism • Technology • Internet
Tuesday October 30, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six And Rough Justice In An Age Of Terror
Dina Temple-Raston, Journalist, FBI Correspondent for NPR and Award Winning Writer
Guest Host: Stephen Lyons
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Terrorism
Tuesday October 30, 2007, 11:06 AM
Juvenile Justice in the United States
Joseph Ryan, Assistant Professor of Social Work and a Faculty Fellow in the Children and Family Research Center in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, August 21, 2007, 10 am
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Categories: Criminal Justice
Wednesday October 31, 2007, 10:06 AM
Made Up Words
Barbara Wallraff, senior editor and the back-page Word Court and Word Fugitives columnist for The Atlantic
Guest Host: Rita Schulte
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Wednesday October 31, 2007, 11:06 AM
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
Ashley Kahn, Award Winning Journalist and Radio Essayist
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, August 27, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Music
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