Focus 580 Archives for month of June 2008

Interviews on global affairs and daily life

Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580

Monday June 02, 2008, 10:06 AM

Sustainability on Campus and Buildings: The Gifts that Keep on Taking

Terry W. Ruprecht, MBA, Director of Energy Conservation, Associate Provost and Vice Chancellor-Academic Affairs-Facilities & Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Categories: Architecture • Community • Education • university • Energy • efficiency • sustainability

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Monday June 02, 2008, 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

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Tuesday June 03, 2008, 10:06 AM

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story Of The Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked The Mysteries Of The Middle Kingdom

Simon Winchester, OBE, Scholar and Writer

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Categories: Biography • Cultural Studies • History • Science • China

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Tuesday June 03, 2008, 11:06 AM

Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges To The Secular State, From Christian Militias To Al Qaeda

Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Religious Studiies, and Director of Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara

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Categories: Cultural Studies • History • International Affairs • Religion • Terrorism

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Wednesday June 04, 2008, 10:06 AM

The Big Sort: Why The Clustering Of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart

Bill Bishop, Journalist

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Categories: Community • Cultural Studies • Economics • Geography • History • Politics • Public Policy

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Wednesday June 04, 2008, 11:06 AM

Summer Skin Care

Lester J. Fahrner, M.D., Dermatologist, Christie Clinic, Champaign

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Categories: Health • Skin Care

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Thursday June 05, 2008, 10:06 AM

The U.S. Economy Downturn and Regulation of Financial Institutions

Stephen D'Arcy, Ph.D., Professor of Finance in the College of Business at the University of Illinois

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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Federal Budget • Government • Labor/worker issues • Politics

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Thursday June 05, 2008, 11:06 AM

Natural Resources and Armed Conflicts

Philippe LeBillon, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia with the Department of Geography and the Liu Institute for Global Issues

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Categories: Economics • Geography • International Affairs • Natural Resources • War Crimes

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Friday June 06, 2008, 10:06 AM

Fish Without A Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion

Rick Moonen, the Chef-Owner of RM Seafood in Las Vegas and Food Writer

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Categories: Food

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Friday June 06, 2008, 11:06 AM

Midwest Travel 2008

Trevor Meers, Midwest Living Executive Editor

Barbara Morrow, Senior Travel Editor of Midwest Living

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Midwest Living website

Categories: Transportation • Airlines • Travel

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Monday June 09, 2008, 10:06 AM

Childhood Allergies

Wesley Burks, M.D., Chief of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Duke University Transitional Medicine Institute Clinical Research Unit

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Categories: Community • Health • Allergies

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Monday June 09, 2008, 11:06 AM

Boris Yeltsin: A Life

Timothy J. Colton, Ph.D., Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University

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Categories: Biography • History • Russia

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Tuesday June 10, 2008, 10:06 AM

Lawn and Garden Care

Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator with the University of Illinois Extension Service of Champaign County

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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture

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Tuesday June 10, 2008, 11:06 AM

Who Owns Antiquity? Museums And The Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage

James Cuno, Ph.D., President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Categories: Archaeology • Architecture • Art and Design • Cultural Studies • Ethics • History • International Affairs

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Wednesday June 11, 2008, 10:06 AM

Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon, the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal

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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • History • United States history • Human Rights

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Wednesday June 11, 2008, 11:06 AM

The Arab Center: The Promise Of Moderation

Marwan Muasher, Ph.D., former Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Amabassador to the United States

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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • History • National Security • Politics • Religion • Middle East

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Thursday June 12, 2008, 10:06 AM

Continuity and Change in American Religion

Mark A. Chaves, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity at Duke University

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Categories: Community • Religion

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Thursday June 12, 2008, 11:06 AM

Bracing For Armageddon? The Science And Politics Of Bioterrorism In America

William R. Clark, Ph.D., Professor and Chair Emeritus of Immunology at the University of California, Los Angeles

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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Terrorism

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Friday June 13, 2008, 10:06 AM

The Great Warming: Climate Change And The Rise And Fall Of Civilizations

Brian Fagan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropolopgy at the University of California, Santa Barbara

This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, May 01, 2008, 10 am

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Categories: Environment • Climate Change

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Friday June 13, 2008, 11:06 AM

The Execution Of Willie Francis: Race, Murder, And The Search For Justice In The American South

Gilbert King, Writer

This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 10 am

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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Ethics • Human Rights • Race/Ethnicity

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Monday June 16, 2008, 10:06 AM

Home Maintenance

Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection

Guest Host: Tom Rogers

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Categories: How-to

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Monday June 16, 2008, 11:06 AM

Talk with the Station Manager

Jay Pearce, WILL Radio Station Manager and Program Director

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Categories: Community • Media and journalism • University of Illinois

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Tuesday June 17, 2008, 10:06 AM

Insect Pest Control

Phil Nixon, Extension Specialist, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois

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Categories: Insects

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Tuesday June 17, 2008, 11:06 AM

Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey

Colin Grant, Independent Historian and BBC Radio Producer with the Science Unit

This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11 am

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Categories: Biography • Civil Rights • Race/Ethnicity • African-American

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Wednesday June 18, 2008, 10:06 AM

Talk with the Veterinarians

Julia Whittington, DVM, Clinical Assistant Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois

Julie K. Byron, DVM, Clinical Assistant Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois

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Categories: Animals • Wildlife

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Wednesday June 18, 2008, 11:06 AM

Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction

Sarah Weinman, Freelance Writer, the Baltimore Sun's Crime Fiction Columnist, and "Dark Passages" Monthly Online Mystery & Suspense Columnist for the Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Categories: Literature • Media and journalism

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Thursday June 19, 2008, 10:06 AM

The Hakawati: A Story

Rabih Alameddine, Writer and Artist

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Categories: Literature

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Thursday June 19, 2008, 11:06 AM

Energy Efficient Building Practices

William B. Rose, Research Architect in the Building Research Council of the University of Illinois

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Categories: Architecture • Energy • sustainability

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Friday June 20, 2008, 10:06 AM

Personal Finance

Kevin Waspi, Lecturer, Department of Finance in the College of Business at the University of Illinois

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Categories: Business and Economy • Personal Finance

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Friday June 20, 2008, 11:06 AM

Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault On Science Threatens Your Health

David Michaels, Ph.D., M.P.H., Director of the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Sciences

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Categories: Community • Economics • Environment • Ethics • Government • Health • Politics • Science • Technology

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Monday June 23, 2008, 10:06 AM

Measuring Immigrant Assimilation in the United States: Still a Melting Pot?

Jacob L. Vigdor, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Economics and Secondary Appointment of Economics , Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

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Categories: Community • Economics • History • United States history • Immigration

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Monday June 23, 2008, 11:06 AM

Out Of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle For The Soul Of China

Philip P. Pan, a Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Post and the newspaper's former Beijing Bureau Chief

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Categories: China

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Tuesday June 24, 2008, 10:06 AM

Blog Wars

David D. Perlmutter, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and Editor of the blog of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas

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Categories: Politics • Technology • Internet

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Tuesday June 24, 2008, 11:06 AM

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanistarian Crises, and Architecture for Humanity

Kate Stohr, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco

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Categories: Architecture • Community • Nonprofits

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Wednesday June 25, 2008, 10:06 AM

"Getting Back on Track in Afghanistan"

Seth G. Jones, Ph.D., Political Scientist with RAND

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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Military • Terrorism • War Crimes • Afghanistan

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Wednesday June 25, 2008, 11:06 AM

Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergeneratioinal Dangers Of Fiscal Irresponsibility

Andrew L. Yarrow, Ph.D., Vice President and Washington Director of Public Agenda, and Visiting Professor at American University in the History Department