Focus 580 Archives for month of May 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Thursday May 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Great Warming: Climate Change And The Rise And Fall Of Civilizations
Brian Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change • History
Thursday May 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in Haiti
Robert Fatton, Jr., Ph.D., Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Human Rights • International Affairs • Politics • Poverty • Haiti
Friday May 02, 2008, 10:06 AM
Insomniac
Gayle Greene, Professor of Literature and Women's Studies at Scripps College
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Friday May 02, 2008, 11:06 AM
Prostitution in the United States and World
Elizabeth Bernstein, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
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Monday May 05, 2008, 10:06 AM
Polk: The Man Who Transformed The Presidency And America
Walter R. Borneman, President of the Walter V. and Idun Y. Berry Foundation
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Categories: Government • History • United States history
Monday May 05, 2008, 11:06 AM
The World Food Crisis 2008
C. Peter Timmer, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Program on Food Security and Environment, Stanford University, and Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Agriculture • Consumer issues • Economics • Energy • Food • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • International Affairs • Politics
Tuesday May 06, 2008, 10:06 AM
Car Care
Rick Karch, Owner of Rick's Automotive Service, Champaign
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Categories: How-to • Transportation
Tuesday May 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Pill Book: The Illustrated Guide To The Most-Prescribed Drugs In The United States
Harold M. Silverman, Pharm.D., Editor-in-Chief of The Pill Book
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Categories: Health
Wednesday May 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday May 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Making of the Federal Budget
Scott A. Frisch, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Political Science Program, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California
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Categories: Federal Budget • Government • National Security • Politics
Thursday May 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
Jeremy Travis, J.D., President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York
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Categories: Community • Criminal Justice • Incarceration • Reentry
Thursday May 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, And The Roots Of The Environmental Movement
Dan O'Neill, Writer and Alaska Historical Society's Alaska Historian of the Year
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Categories: History • United States history
Friday May 09, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Health Disparities in America 2008"
Michael Bird, M.S.W., M.P.H., Public Health Consultant and Former President of the American Public Health Association
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Categories: Community • Health • Health Policy • Public Policy
Friday May 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Richard Thompson Ford, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
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Categories: Civil Rights • History • United States history • Human Rights • Law • Race/Ethnicity
Monday May 12, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Welfare Reform of 1996, an Update
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution
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Categories: Economics • Government • History • United States history • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity
Monday May 12, 2008, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in Zimbabwe
Scott D. Taylor, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of African Studies, Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.
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Tuesday May 13, 2008, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator with the the University of Illinois Extension Service of Champaign County
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture
Wednesday May 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
Einstein: His Life And Universe
Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and Writer
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Categories: Biography • Science
Wednesday May 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
Summer Movies
David Desser, Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Cinema/Theatres/Film
Thursday May 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Standard Operating Procedure
Philip Gourevitch, Award Winning Writer, Editor of The Paris Review, and a Staff Writer for The New Yorker
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Ethics • Government • History • Human Rights • Law • Military • Terrorism • Violence • War • Iraq
Thursday May 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
Insects
May Berenbaum, Ph.D., Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois
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Friday May 16, 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: Personal Finance
Friday May 16, 2008, 11:06 AM
Land Of Lincoln: Adventures In Abe's America
Andrew Ferguson, a Senior Editor at The Weekly Standard
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Categories: History • United States history
Monday May 19, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Maintenance
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
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Monday May 19, 2008, 11:06 AM
Insect Control
Philip Nixon, Extension Entomologist at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Insects
Tuesday May 20, 2008, 10:06 AM
Medicare in 2008
Robert F. Rich, Ph.D., J.D., Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics • Health • Health Policy
Tuesday May 20, 2008, 11:06 AM
Fixing Failed States: A Framework For Rebuilding A Fractured World
Ashraf Ghani, Ph.D., Chairman of the Institute of State Effectiveness
Clare Lockhart, Director of the Institute for State Effectiveness
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Categories: Economics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • History • Human Rights • International Affairs • Military • Terrorism
Wednesday May 21, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Comanche Empire
Pekka Hamalainen, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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Categories: History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans
Wednesday May 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
How Infants Make Sense of the World Around Then
Renee Baillargeon, Ph.D., the Alumni Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Human Development • Psychology
Thursday May 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Egypt
Kenneth M. Cuno, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois
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Thursday May 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
Twilight War: The Folly Of U.S. Space Dominance
Mike Moore, a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute
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Categories: Government • Military • War
Friday May 23, 2008, 10:06 AM
Building America: The New Conservative Coalition And The Drive For Permanent Power
Thomas B. Edsall, the Joseph Pulitizer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professorship in Public Affairs Journalism at Columbia University, Correspondent for The New Republic and The National Journal, and Political Editor of the Huffington Post
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Categories: Government • Elections
Friday May 23, 2008, 11:06 AM
State Budget Woes Across the Nation
Todd Donovan, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
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Monday May 26, 2008, 10:06 AM
World War One Living History Project Hour One
Guest Host: Walter Cronkite
This is a preemption for special programming
Monday May 26, 2008, 11:06 AM
World War One Living History Project Hour Two
Guest Host: Walter Cronkite
This is a preemption for special programming
Wednesday May 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
A New Transportation Policy That Will Address the Infrastructure Crisis and Save the Environment
Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of History and Urban Studies at Columbia University and Director of the Barnard and Columbia Urban Studies Programs
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Categories: Energy • Environment • Transportation
Wednesday May 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
Oil and Energy Economics
Amy Myers Jaffe, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Polic and Associate Director of the Rice University Energy Program
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Categories: Economics • Energy • oil • National Security • Natural Resources • Middle East
Thursday May 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
Bottomfeeder: How To Eat Ethically In A World Of Vanishing Seafood
Taras Grescoe, Writer
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Categories: Environment • Food
Thursday May 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Earthquakes: Illinois and Beyond
Douglas Wiens, Ph.D., Professor of Geological Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University
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Categories: Science • Seismology
Friday May 30, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Pentagon, A History: The Untold Story Of The Wartime Race To Build The Pentagon And To Restore It Sixty Years Later
Steve Vogel, Military Reporter for The Washington Post
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 10 am
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Friday May 30, 2008, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecology with the Women's Health Practice and University of Illinois College of Medicine Clinical Instructor
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Categories: Health
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