Focus 580 Archives for month of April 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Tuesday April 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Cure Within: A History Of Mind-Body Medicine
Anne Harrington, Professor and Chair of The History of Science Department at Harvard University
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Categories: Health • History • Science
Tuesday April 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Promoting Economic Opportunity for Workers in a Challenging Economy
Christine Owens, Executive Director, The National Employment Law Project, New York
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Categories: Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment
Wednesday April 02, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Food
Wednesday April 02, 2008, 11:06 AM
Billy The Kid: The Endless Ride
Michael Wallis, Award Winning Writer and Member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame
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Categories: Biography • History • United States history
Thursday April 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Big Read: Tolstoy's The Death Of Ivan Ilych
Michael Denner, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, Editor Tolstoy Studies Journal, and Director of University Honors Program at Stetson University
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Categories: Literature
Thursday April 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
Hazing in View: college Students at Risk
Elizabeth Allan, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Higher Educational Leadership, Department of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, Orono
Mary Madden, Ph.D., Associate Research Professor, Center for Research and Education, Department of Education and Human Development, University of Maine, Orono
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- Professor Allan's departmental bio
- Professor Madden's departmental webpage
- Nationanl Center for Hazing Research and Prevention
- Stop Hazing
Categories: Community • Education • Psychology
Friday April 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
Books, Current, Classics and Past Books
Gale Walden, Journalist and Professor at the University of New Orleans in the MFA Program
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Friday April 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
Books
Kelly Strom, Collection Manager at the Champaign Public Library
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Categories: Literature
Monday April 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Of A Feather: A Brief History Of American Birding
Scott Weidensaul, Writer, Lecturer, Naturalist and Field Researcher
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Categories: Animals • Environment
Monday April 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Airlines 2008: Longer Delays, Crowded Flights, Unhappy Fliers, Unhappy Employees – A Happy Ending?
David Field, Americas Editor, Airline Business magazine
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Transportation • Airlines • Travel
Wednesday April 09, 2008, 10:06 AM
Human Smoke: The Beginnings Of World War II, The End Of Civilization
Nicholson Baker, Writer
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Categories: History • Violence • Mass Killings • War Crimes
Wednesday April 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Globalization and Language Endangerment: Africa vs. the Americas"
Salikoko S. Mufwene, the Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the College on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago
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Thursday April 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire"
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard University
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Thursday April 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in Tibet
Elliot Sperling, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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- Professor Sperling's departmental webpage
- Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University
Categories: Cultural Studies • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Human Rights • International Affairs • Politics • Violence • China • Tibet
Friday April 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
Government Procurement and Acquisition
Jacques S. Gansler, Ph.D., Professor and Roger C. Lipitz Chair in Pubic Policy and Private Enterprise, and Director of the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
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- Professor Gansler's bio
- The University of Maryland's Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise website
Categories: Business and Economy • Government • Military • Politics
Friday April 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
Inside The Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past And Promising Future
Newton N. Minow, J.D., Senior Counsel of Sidley Austin LLP and the Walter Annenberg Professor Emeritus of Communications and Law at Northwestern University
Craig L. Lamay, Associate Professor of Journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism
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Categories: Government • Politics
Monday April 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
Lush LIfe: A Novel
Richard Price, Novelist and Screenwriter
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Categories: Literature
Monday April 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Family Practice Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician at Carle Clinic, Urbana
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Categories: Health
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Whistleblowers: What Are They? What Happens to Them? What's the Law?
Stephen M. Kohn, J.D., Executive Director, National Whistleblower Center, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Ethics • Government • Labor/worker issues • Whistleblowers • Politics
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
Mayan Culture and Archaeology
Lisa Lucero, Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Archaeology
Wednesday April 16, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Execution Of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, And The Search For Justice In The American South
Gilbert King, Writer
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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Wednesday April 16, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Stories from Medicine: Where They Came from and How to Tell Them"
Michael LaCombe, M.D., Cardiologist, Writer, Poet, and Associate Editor at The Annals of Internal Medicine
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Categories: Education • Health
Thursday April 17, 2008, 10:06 AM
Student Bodies: The Influence Of Student Health Services In American Society And Medicine
Heather Munro Prescott, Professor of History and Coordinator for Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Central Conneticut State University
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Categories: Health • Health Policy • History • United States history
Thursday April 17, 2008, 11:06 AM
Energy Demands on Water Resources: Protecting Critical Infrastructures
Michael Hightower, Civil and Environmental Engineer, and Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Energy Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Categories: Community • Energy • Environment • Water resources • National Security
Friday April 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy
Friday April 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
McMafia: A Journey Through The Global Criminal Underworld
Misha Glenny, Award Winning Journalist and Broadcaster
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Monday April 21, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Maintenance
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
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Monday April 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
Democracy and the Media in the 21st Century
Tom Rosenstiel, Cline Center for Democracy Keynote Speaker, and Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism
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Categories: Media and journalism • Politics
Tuesday April 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
Forensic Investigations of Animal Cruelty: A Guide for Veterinary and Law Enforcement, and Anti-Cruelty Legislation
Rnadall Lockwood, Ph.D., CAAB, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Senior Vice President/Anti-Cruelty Initiatives and Legislative Services
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Tuesday April 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
Government by the People: Referenda, Grass Roots Initiatives, and Recall Petitions
Christopher Z. Mooney, Ph.D., Professor of Political Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield
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- Professor Mooney's Center for Legislative Studies bio & CV link
- Professor Mooney's Institute of Government and Public Affairs page
Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Government • Elections • Politics • Public Policy
Wednesday April 23, 2008, 10:06 AM
Interview with British ActtorTimothy Spall
Timothy Spall, O.B.E., Actor on Stage and Screen
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film
Wednesday April 23, 2008, 11:06 AM
Organ Donation and Transplantation in Communities of Color
Juan Carlos Caicedo, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director of Hispanic Transplant Program in the Division of Organ Transplantation in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University
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Categories: Health • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Asian/Pacific Islander • Latino/Latina affairs • Native Americans
Thursday April 24, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Protecting the Prophet: Understanding Muslim Reactions to the Danish Cartoon Controversy"
Lawrence Rosen, Ph.D., the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
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Categories: Cultural Studies • International Affairs • Media and journalism • Religion
Thursday April 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion and Nationalism in a Global World"
Donny George Youkhanna, Ph.D., former Director General of the Iraq National Museum and Research Director of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage; Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York in Stony Brook
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Categories: Archaeology • Architecture • Art and Design • Foreign Policy-U.S. • War Crimes • Iraq
Friday April 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
Preventing Addiction: What Parents Must Know To Immunize Their Kids Againxt Drug And Alcohol Addiction
John C. Fleming, M.D., Family Practice Physician in Minden, Louisiana
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Categories: Addiction Treatment/Recovery • Health
Friday April 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
John Peterson, Farmer and Writer
Taggart Siegel, Director and Filmmaker
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Categories: Agriculture • Cinema/Theatres/Film
Monday April 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
Biography Of The Dollar: How The Mighty Buck Conquered The World And Why It's Under Siege
Craig Karmin, Reporter for the Money and Investing section of The Wall Street Journal
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Categories: Business and Economy • History
Monday April 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?"
Stanley R. Sloan, Ph.D., Founding Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative, Visiting Scholar at the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs at Middlebury College, and President of VIC-Vermont, a private consulting firm
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Military • NATO • Politics • War Crimes • Afghanistan
Tuesday April 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
"After 60 Years of Human Rights, Is There a Cause for Celebration?"
Dr. Julian Burger, Coordinator of the Indigenous and Minorities Unit at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland
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Categories: Human Rights
Tuesday April 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Madison Avenue And The Color Line: African Americans In The Advertising Industry
Jason Chambers, Advertising Consultant and Assistant Professor of Advertising at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Media and journalism • Race/Ethnicity
Wednesday April 30, 2008, 10:06 AM
Spring Bird Watching and Feeding
Larry Keller, Owner of Wild Birds, Inc.
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Categories: Birds • Community • Wildlife
Wednesday April 30, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Art Of Polictical Murder: Who Killed The Bishop?
Francisco Goldman, Novelist and Journalist
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Categories: Biography • Human Rights
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