Focus 580 Archives for month of January 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Tuesday January 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
Amerca Abroad: allies at a Crossroads Turkey and the United States
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Tuesday January 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
America Abroad: From Cold War to Peace
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Wednesday January 02, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Food
Wednesday January 02, 2008, 11:06 AM
Lighting for Efficiency and Beauty
Nancy E. Clanton, Founder and President of Clanton & Associates of Boulder, Colorado
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Categories: Architecture • Energy • How-to
Thursday January 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Invisible Cure: Africa, The West, And The Fight Against AIDS
Helen Epstein, Journalist
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Categories: Ethics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Health • Health Policy • Africa
Thursday January 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Health Benefits of Taiji and Qigong
Yang Yang, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Taiji Studies, Champaign, IL and New York City; Adjunct Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois; and Qigong Master of the Year, 2006
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Friday January 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Toothpick: Technology And Culture
Henry Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a Professor of History at Duke University
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Categories: Art and Design • Business and Economy • History
Friday January 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
International Security and Nuclear Nonproliferation in the Middle East
Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., Director of the Global Security Institute's Bipartisan Security Group
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Monday January 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Continued Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: War Without End?
Howard Wolpe, Ph.D., Director of the Africa Program, and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and former U.S. Congressman
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- Woodrow Wilson Center's Africa Program
- Woodrow Wilson Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity
Categories: Economics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Africa • Democratic Republic of Congo
Monday January 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
Godly Republic: A Centrist Blueprint for America's Faith-Based Future
John J. DiIulio, Jr., the Frederic Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion, and Civil Society and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the first White House "faith czar" of George W. Bush in his first term
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Categories: History • United States history • Politics • Religion
Tuesday January 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator with the University of Illinois Extension in Champaign County
Don Gardner, retired Dentist and Founder of a prairie development project in Ford County
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Categories: Agriculture • Art and Design • Environment • Gardening and Horticulture
Tuesday January 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
Power To Save The World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy
Gwyneth Cravens, Novelist and Former Fiction Editor with The New Yorker
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Wednesday January 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became A Sickness
Christopher Lane, The Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor of Literature at Northwestern University
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 10 am
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Categories: Psychology
Wednesday January 09, 2008, 10:06 AM
Practical Concerns in Running Art Museums
James Cuno, Ph.D., since 2004, President and the Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Categories: Archaeology • Architecture • Art and Design • Business and Economy • Community
Thursday January 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
Foot Care
Robert J. Born, DPM, Podiatrist at Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Thursday January 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-The-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford
Thomas M. DeFrank, Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Daily News
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Categories: Biography • History • United States history • Politics
Thursday January 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
Foot Care
Robert J. Born, DPM, Podiatrist at Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Friday January 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, And The Desperate Struggle For Moscow That Changed The Course Of The World
Adam Nagorski, Senior Editor at
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Categories: Biography • History • War Crimes
Friday January 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, And The Desperate Struggle For Moscow That Changed The Course Of World War II
Andrew Nagorski, Senior Editor at Newsweek International
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Categories: History • Military • Politics • War Crimes • Russia
Friday January 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Japan
Scott O'Bryan, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • International Affairs • Politics
Monday January 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions And Restoring The Criminal Justice System
Jon B. Gould, Acting Dirctor and Associate Professor of Administration of Justice Program in the Department of Public & International Affairs at George Mason University
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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Ethics • Government • Law
Monday January 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
Civilian-Military Relations in the United States
John Allen Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Loyola University of Chicago and United Sttes Navy Reserve (Ret.)
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Categories: Community • History • United States history • Military • Politics
Tuesday January 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Winter Car Care
Rick Karch, Rick's Automotive Service, Champaign
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Categories: Automotive
Tuesday January 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Technology of Voting
Clive Thompson, Journalist
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Categories: Government • Elections • Politics • Technology
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 10:06 AM
With God on Our Side: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military
Michael L. Weinstein, Founder and President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
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Categories: Civil Rights • Military • Religion
Wednesday January 16, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Champaign County Nursing Home
Andrew Buffenbarger, Administrator, Champaign County Nursing Home
Barbara Wysocki, Champaign County Board Member
Greg Knott, Champaign County Board Member
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Categories: Community • Consumer issues • Family • Health
Thursday January 17, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Kenya
Makau W. Matua, Interim Dean, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar at Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York, Director of the Human Rights Center
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Categories: Politics • Africa • Kenya
Thursday January 17, 2008, 11:06 AM
Marco Polo: From Venice To Xanadu
Laurence Bergreen, Prize Winning Writer
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Categories: Biography • History
Friday January 18, 2008, 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: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics
Friday January 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
A Conversation with James Riordan
James Riordan, Writer and Producer
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Categories: Biography • Cinema/Theatres/Film • Cultural Studies • Music
Monday January 21, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, And The Awakening Of A Nation
Hank Kilbanoff, Managing Editor for News at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, December 15, 2006, 11 am
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Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Cultural Studies • Media and journalism
Monday January 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr
Rufus Burrow, Jr., Ph.D., Indiana Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of Theological Social Ethics
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Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Politics • Religion
Tuesday January 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
Printer's Devil: Mark Twain And The American Publishing Revolution
Bruce Michelson,
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Categories: Biography • Cultural Studies • History • Literature • Media and journalism
Tuesday January 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Putin vs. YUKOS: Russian Law and Oil Politics"
Robert Amsterdam, LLB, Attorney, Co-Founder of Tronoto-Based Amsterdam & Peroff Law Firm, Member of the Canadian, New York and International Bar Associations
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Categories: Business and Economy • Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Cultural Studies • Economics • Energy • International Affairs • Law • Politics • Russia
Wednesday January 23, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Information Technology and the Dream of Democratic Renewal"
Langdon Winner, Ph.D., the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Resselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Wednesday January 23, 2008, 11:06 AM
Consumer Electronics
Rich Warren, Host of The Midnight Special on WFMT and WILL radio
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Categories: Consumer issues
Thursday January 24, 2008, 10:06 AM
"The Soviet Gulag"
David Satter, Ph.D., Journalist, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center and Journalism Visiting Faculty at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Economics • Government • History • Politics • Russia
Thursday January 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
Sweatshop Labor and Conditions Today
Charles "Charlie" Kernaghan, Executive Director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, New York
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics
Friday January 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk And Jazz History In The Making
Gabriel Solis, Professor of Music at the University of Illinois
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Friday January 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
Death By Black Hole And Other Quandaries
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and Director of the Hayden Planetarium
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Friday January 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
Talk With The Candidate
David Tomlinson, Republican Candidate for Representative from the Illinois 105th Distrcit of the Illinois General Assembly
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Categories: Government • Elections
Monday January 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Care and Maintenance
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday January 28, 2008, 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 January 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk With The Candidate
Alfred Ivy III, Attorney and Democratic Candidate for Champaign County State's Attorney
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Government • Elections
Tuesday January 29, 2008, 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 Law School
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Categories: Education
Wednesday January 30, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk With The Candidate
Julia Rietz, Champaign County State's Attorney and Democratic Candidate in the February 5th Primary
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Government • Elections
Wednesday January 30, 2008, 10:06 AM
Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter Of World War II
David Stafford, Writer and Project Director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh
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Categories: History • War Crimes
Thursday January 31, 2008, 11:06 AM
Wild Birds in Winter
Larry Keller, Owner, Wild Birds, Inc., Champaign
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Categories: Birds • Community • Landscape • Wildlife
Thursday January 31, 2008, 10:06 AM
Talk With The Candidate
David Tomlinson, Republican Candidate for Representative to the Illinois General Assembly from the 105th District in the February 5th primary
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Categories: Government • Elections
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