Focus 580 Archives for month of February 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Friday February 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
The English Language
Dennis Baron, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Categories: Community • Education • Language and Linguistics
Friday February 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk With The Candidate
Shane Cultra, Representative to the Illinois General Assembly from the 105th District (Republican) and Candidate for re-election in the February 5 primary
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Categories: Government • Elections • Illinois
Monday February 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Age Of Shiva: A Novel
Manil Suri, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an Award Winning Novelist
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Family • Literature • India
Monday February 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
Cloned Animals: Safe to Eat? Nutritious? Economical? Necessary?
Bruce M. Chassy, Ph.D., Professor of Food Microbiology, University of Illinois
Matthew B. Wheeler, Ph.D., Professor of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois
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Categories: Agriculture • Animals • Consumer issues • Food
Tuesday February 05, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, Emeritus Professor in the School of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois and WILL Radio Chef-in-Residence
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Tuesday February 05, 2008, 11:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator with the Champaign County Extension Service at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Environment • Gardening and Horticulture • How-to
Wednesday February 06, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Illinois Economy and Fiscal Issues
David F. Merriman, Professor in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and Professor of Public Administration in the College of Urban Planning and Public Administration at the University of Illinois Chicago
Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Professor in the Departments of Geography, Economics and Urban and Regional Planning; Director of the Regional Economics Application Laboratory; and Professor in the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Government • Illinois
Wednesday February 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
Increasing School Desegregation in the United States
Gary Orfield, Ph.D., Co-director, The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, and Professor of Education, UCLA
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Categories: Education • Race/Ethnicity
Thursday February 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Writers Guild of America Strike and the 2008 Oscars
David Desser, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Unit for Cinema Studies
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film • Film/Movies • Labor/worker issues
Thursday February 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
How We Missed The Story: Osma Bin Laden, The Taliban, And The Hijacking Of Afghanistan
Roy Gutman, Foreign Editor for McClatchy Newpapers and Award Winning Journalist
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Media and journalism • Terrorism
Friday February 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Erosion of Religious Freedom in the United States and Abroad
John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Ethics and Cirector of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion
Charles C. Haynes, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center
Professor Witte will be on air by ISDN, and Dr. Haynes by phone
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- Professor Witte's faculty profile
- Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion
- Dr. Charles C. Haynes biography
- Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center
Categories: Government • Law • Religion
Friday February 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, And The Battle Over Global Warming
Chris Mooney, Journalist and Washington Correspondent for Seed Magazine
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change • Politics • Weather
Monday February 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
Winter Skin Care
Ann Tice, M.D., Dermatologist with Hada Cosmetic Medicine
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Categories: Health
Monday February 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk With The Family Practice Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician at Carle Clinic
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Tuesday February 12, 2008, 10:06 AM
Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance
David E. Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
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Categories: Government • Politics • Public Policy
Tuesday February 12, 2008, 11:06 AM
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
Ethan Rarick, Journalist; Acting Director of the Center on Politics, and Acting Director of Publications for the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
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Wednesday February 13, 2008, 10:06 AM
Your Symptoms Are Real: What To Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Professor of Neurosciences at New Jersey Medical School, Co-Director of the Pain and Fatigue Study Center, and Director of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia Center
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Categories: Health
Wednesday February 13, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Global Africa: Whence its Past? Whither its Future?"
Michael A. Gomez, Professor of History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University
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Categories: Economics • History • Human Rights • Politics • Africa
Thursday February 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Indonesia
Brad Simpson, Professor of at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Categories: Economics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Human Rights • International Affairs • Politics • Terrorism
Thursday February 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Biofuels and the World Food Situation"
Joachim von Braun, Director General of the Consultative Group on Internation Agricultural Research of the Internation Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Energy • Environment • Food • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Politics • Transportation
Friday February 15, 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 February 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
Arsenals Of Folly: The Making Of The Nuclear Arms Race
Richard Rhodes, Award-Winning Writer and an Affiliate of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • International Affairs • Military • National Security • Politics • Terrorism
Monday February 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Maintenance and Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Inspection
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Monday February 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots Of Civil Rights 1919-1950
Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor History at Yale University
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Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Criminal Justice • Cultural Studies • Government • History • United States history • Human Rights • Law • Politics • Public Policy • Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday February 19, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois African Film Festival February 22-28, 2008
Mahir Saul, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Curator at the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film • Film/Movies • Africa
Tuesday February 19, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Current Credit Crisis
Robert M. Lawless, Professor of Law and the Galowich-Huizenga Faculty Scholar at the University College of Law
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Government • Law • Politics
Wednesday February 20, 2008, 10:06 AM
Preservation of Audiovisual Media in the Home and in the Archives
Jimi Jones, Project Coordinator for the Audiovisual Self-Assessment Program Conservation Unit at the University of Illinois Library
Emma Saito Lincoln, Media Preservation Coordinator in the Preservation Department of the University of Illinios Library
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film • How-to
Wednesday February 20, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Occupation Of Iraq: Winning The War, Losing The Peace
Ali A. Allawi, Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq, former Minister of Trade and Minister of Defense under the Interim Iraqi Governing Council from 2003-2004, former Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government between 2005-2206
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Categories: Economics • Energy • oil • Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • International Affairs • Military • National Security • Politics • Terrorism • War
Thursday February 21, 2008, 10:06 AM
The 25th Annual Insect Fear Film Festival
May Berenbaum, Ph.D., Professor and Head of Entomology, The University of Illinois
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Categories: Film/Movies • Insects
Thursday February 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
Update on the Clean Water Act
Joan Mulhern, Senior Legislative Counsel with Earthjustice
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics • Environment • Water resources • Geography • Government • Law • Public Policy
Friday February 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University: Commonalities, and What We’ve Learned
Dave Cullen, Journalist, and author of the forthcoming book , A Lasting Impression: The Definitive Account of Columbine and its Aftermath, Denver, Colorado
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Categories: Community • Psychology • Violence • Mass Killings
Friday February 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
Bill Mauldin A Life Up Front: A Biography With Illustrations
Todd DePastino, Writer and Teacher at Waynesburg College
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Categories: Biography • Media and journalism • War
Monday February 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Research Integrity: Whose Rights? Whose Responsibilities?"
Drummond Rennie, M.D., M.A.C.P., F.R.C.P., Nephrologist, Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
We rely on the research community to produce objective studies that can be used by doctors to promote better health. Increasingly though, powerful conflicts of interest are undermining the integrity of biomedical research. This morning on Focus 580 we’ll talk with one of the country’s leading advocates for scientific integrity, Dr. Drummond Rennie, Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. We’ll talk about a number of key issues, including authorship, peer review and the influence of commercial sponsors on medical research.
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Categories: Education • Ethics • Health • Health Policy
Monday February 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Science of Medication in Treating Mental Illnesses
Jerald Kay, M.D., Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Psychiatric medications have dramatically changed the treatment of mental illness. But patients don’t always take medication as directed. In fact, researchers say between 30 and 50 percent of people taking these drugs voluntarily, are not taking them correctly. Our guest is Dr. Jerald Kay, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at Wright State University School of Medicine. We’ll talk about a range of issues, including the potential benefits and potential side effects of these medications.
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Categories: Community • Health • Mental Health • Psychiatry • Violence
Tuesday February 26, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Future Of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, And Privacy On The Internet
Daniel J. Solove, Associate Professor at George Washington University Law School
Today, anyone can create a blog or social network website profile in any name that says anything at all. But what if the information is humiliating or false? Our guest is an international expert on privacy law, Daniel Solove, professor of Law at George Washington University. He says while the free flow of information on the Internet provides new opportunities for people to express themselves there is also a dark side. Should we stop the exposure of private secrets on the Internet? Can we?
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Categories: Ethics • Law • Media and journalism • Technology • Internet
Tuesday February 26, 2008, 11:06 AM
Pet Health, from Teeth to Trauma
Carol Akers, D.V.M., Veterinarian and in the Dental Residency Program at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine
Maureen McMichael, D.V.M., Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine
Today on Focus 580 we’ll be looking for your questions on the care of companion animals. We’ll have two guests, both from the University Of Illinois College Of Veterinary Medicine: Doctors Carol Akers and Maureen McMichael. We can take a wide range of questions including routine care for cats and dogs,diet and nutrition, and the ways our animals change over the course of their lives. We’ll also spend some time talking about dental care for pets.
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Categories: Animals • Health • University of Illinois
Wednesday February 27, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Health and Healthcare in Illinois"
Robert Kaestner, Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Faculty Member of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the Uiversity of Illinois
In Illinois, 25 percent of those in their prime working years have no health insurance. In an effort to address this need, the governor last year proposed a program he called “Illinois Covered.” Again this year, he has called on the legislature to approve it. And, as they did last year, many lawmakers say the state just can’t afford it.
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Categories: Community • Consumer issues • Economics • Family • Government • Illinois • Health • Health Policy • Politics • Public Policy • University of Illinois
Wednesday February 27, 2008, 11:06 AM
Less Safe Less Free: Why America Is Losing The War On Terror
David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, the Legal Affaris Correspondent for The Nation, and a regular Contributor to the New York Review of Books
No terrorist attacks have occurred on American soil since 9-11. Does that mean the war on terror has made us safer? This morning on Focus 580 we’ll talk with Georgetown University Law professor David Cole. He argues the administration’s response to 9-11 has not only compromised fundamental principles of law…it has actually made America less safe. He notes that Al Qaeda has rebuilt itself in Pakistan…independent groups have sprung up around the world…and since 9-11, only one person has been convicted for an actual terrorist attempt.
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • History • Law • National Security • Politics • Terrorism
Thursday February 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
AIDS to Zen: Practicing Social Justice from the Nonprofit Sector
John Manzon-Santos, former Executive Director of Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center in San Francisco and Principal of pearldiving, a consulting practice
For more than 20 years, John Manzon-Santos has been an activist on social and policy issues affecting Asian Americans. He has served as Executive Director of the two largest nonprofits in North America working on issues of sexual health and HIV among Asians and Pacific Islanders. This morning, on Focus 580, we’ll talk about the ways that nonprofit organizations have worked to create a more fair distribution of power and resources…and about his belief that activist work is also human rights work.
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Categories: Gender issues • Health • Nonprofits • Race/Ethnicity • Asian/Pacific Islander
Thursday February 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
Twilight At Monticello: The Final Years Of Thomas Jefferson
Alan Pell Crawford, Writer and Book Reviewer
You might think it would be difficult to go from founding father to private citizen…but as Thomas Jefferson prepared to step down as President he seemed pleased with the prospect of retirement. As he wrote to his daughter…”I am tired of a life of contention…I long to be among you where I know nothing but love and delight.” In his final years he also knew family tragedy, mounting debt and disillusionment. This morning on Focus 580 we’ll explore the sweet and the bitter moments in Jefferson’s final years…as we talk with Alan Pell Crawford about his new book Twilight at Monticello.
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Categories: Architecture • Biography • History • United States history
Friday February 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Age Of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby, Independent Scholar and Program Director of the Center for Inquiry-New York City
You’ve seen the stories…two thirds of Americans between 18 and 24 can’t find Iraq on a map. Only about half of adults read a single book in the course of a year. Children under six spend two hours a day watching TV…but are read to by their parents for just 40 minutes. Americans have always had an anti-intellectual streak…but Susan Jacoby says we are living through an crisis of knowledge involving everything about the way we learn and think.
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Categories: Cultural Studies
Friday February 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Late Winter and Early Spring Night Skies
James B. Kaler, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, University of Illinois
As the seasons change…so does the sky…and this morning on Focus 580 we’ll talk about what’s on display as we move from late winter into early spring. Our guide will be Jim Kaler, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois. He will point out some of the most interesting features now in the night sky…and take general questions about astronomy and space exploration.
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Categories: Science • Astronomy
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