Focus 580 Archives for month of December 2007
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday December 03, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Airmen And The Headhunters: A True Story Of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen And The Unlikeliest Rescue Of World War II
Judith M. Heimann, Career Diplomat and Writer
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Categories: Military • War Crimes
Monday December 03, 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 December 04, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Oil And The Glory: The Pursuit Of Empire And Fortune On The Caspian Sea
Steve LeVine, Journalist, covered Central Asia and the Caucasus for eleven years for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times
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Categories: Energy • Foreign Policy-U.S.
Tuesday December 04, 2007, 11:06 AM
"The Chicago Police Department's Broken System"
Craig B. Futterman, J.D., Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
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Categories: Community • Criminal Justice • Police
Wednesday December 05, 2007, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Food
Wednesday December 05, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Discovery Of France: A Historical Geography From The Revolution To The First World War
Graham Robb, Award-Winning Biographer
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Geography • History • France
Thursday December 06, 2007, 10:06 AM
Blood Of Brothers: Life And War In Nicaragua
Stephen Kinzer, The New York Times Bureau Chief in Nicaragua in the 1980's, Cultural Correspondent for The New York Times
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Thursday December 06, 2007, 11:06 AM
Book Recommendations for Holiday Gifts
Carol Spindel, Writer (author of Dancing At Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots, and The Sacred Grove)
Aaron Geiger , Assistant Manager, Pages for All Ages and Editor, of Parkland College's newspaper, The Prospectus
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Friday December 07, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Science of Leonardo: Inside The Mind Of The Great Genius Of The Renaissance
Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., Physicist, Founding Director of the Center for Ecoliteracy, and Writer
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Categories: Art and Design • Biography • Science
Friday December 07, 2007, 11:06 AM
Water Use and Management in Illinois
Derek Winstanley, Ph.D, Chief of the Illinois State Water Survey at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Environment • Water resources
Monday December 10, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Secret History Of The War On Cancer
Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.D., Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the Unviersity of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Graduate School of Public Health
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Categories: Health • Health Policy
Monday December 10, 2007, 11:06 AM
The National Guard and Reserve Readiness
Phillip Carter, J.D., Associate at McKenna Long & Aldridge, New York City, United States Army Veteran and Reservist
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Categories: Community • Military • National Security • Terrorism
Tuesday December 11, 2007, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulure Educator with the University of Illinois Extension, Champaign County
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture
Tuesday December 11, 2007, 11:06 AM
Children's Health
Malcolm Hill, Pediatrician at Carle Clinic, Urbana
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Wednesday December 12, 2007, 10:06 AM
Education's End: Why Our Colleges And Universities Have Given Up On The Meaning Of Life
Anthony T. Kronman, the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University Law School
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Categories: Education
Wednesday December 12, 2007, 11:06 AM
From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and The Cold War
Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Notre Dame University and Rector of Moreau Seminary
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, December 05, 2006, 11 am
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Thursday December 13, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Far Traveler: Voyages Of A Viking Woman
Nancy Marie Brown, Writer and Editor
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Categories: Archaeology • History
Friday December 14, 2007, 11:06 AM
International Security and Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East
Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., Director of the Global Security Institute's Bipartisan Security Group and Former U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament
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Categories: National Security • Politics
Monday December 17, 2007, 10:06 AM
Home Care and Maintenance
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection Service
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Categories: How-to
Monday December 17, 2007, 11:06 AM
Complete Book Of Indian Cooking: 350 Recipes From The Regions Of India
Suneeta Vaswani, Teacher of Indian Cooking
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Categories: Food
Tuesday December 18, 2007, 10:06 AM
The Next-Generation Air Transportation System: Change for the Better
Natasha Neogi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Government
Tuesday December 18, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Design Of Future Things
Donald A. Norman, the Breed Professor of Design at Northwestern University
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Categories: Art and Design
Wednesday December 19, 2007, 10:06 AM
Photography and Cameras
Brian Johnson, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Consumer issues • How-to
Wednesday December 19, 2007, 11:06 AM
Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Battle At Home And Abroad
Kenneth Osgood, Assistant Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University
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Thursday December 20, 2007, 10:06 AM
Drugs and Guns in Mexico and the United States: Who Supplies? Who Demands?
Samuel Logan, Independent, Investigative Journalist and Security Risk Analyst
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Categories: Economics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • National Security
Thursday December 20, 2007, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Russia: Putin, A New Cold War, and Beyond
Michael A. McFaul, Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of law, and Deputy Director of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Politics • Russia
Friday December 21, 2007, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance in the College of Business at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Economics
Friday December 21, 2007, 11:06 AM
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists And The Unveiling Of Egypt
Nina Burleigh, Journalist, Staff Writer at People Magazine and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University
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Categories: Biography • History • Military • Science
Monday December 24, 2007, 10:06 AM
Deception: Pakistan, The United States, And The Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons
Catherine Scott-Clark, Award-Winning Investigative Journalist, Senior Correspondent with the Guardian and book Co-Author
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, November 30, 2007, 10 am
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Monday December 24, 2007, 11:06 AM
The Oil And The Glory: The Pursuit Of Empire And Fortune On The Caspian Sea
Steve LeVine, Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, December 04, 2007, 10 am
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Tuesday December 25, 2007, 10:06 AM
Tinsel Tales
This is a preemption for special programming
Tuesday December 25, 2007, 11:06 AM
Zorba Paster in the Kitchen for the Holidays
This is a preemption for special programming
Wednesday December 26, 2007, 10:06 AM
DNA Files: GxE: Genes and Environment
This is a preemption for special programming
Wednesday December 26, 2007, 11:06 AM
DNA Files: Minding the Brain
This is a preemption for special programming
Thursday December 27, 2007, 10:06 AM
DNA Files: Comparative Genomics
This is a preemption for special programming
Thursday December 27, 2007, 11:06 AM
DNA Files: The Heat Is On: Evolution in Action
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Friday December 28, 2007, 10:06 AM
DNA Files: Designing the Garden, Food in the Age of Biotechnology
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Friday December 28, 2007, 11:06 AM
Intelligence Squared: Aid to Africa is Doing More Harm Than Good
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Monday December 31, 2007, 10:06 AM
Widgets to Digits
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Monday December 31, 2007, 11:06 AM
Against the Odds
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