Focus 580 Archives for month of July 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Tuesday July 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
Historic Preservation in Illinois 2008
Mike Jackson, Chief Architect at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield
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Categories: Architecture • Community • History • United States history • Landscape • Urban Planning
Tuesday July 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
The English Language
Denis Baron, Professor of English at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Wednesday July 02, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Foods from Italy
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Food
Wednesday July 02, 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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Thursday July 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
Too Far From Home: A Story Of Life And Death In Space
Chris Jones, Award Winning Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 10 am
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Thursday July 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
Blood Brothers: Among The Soldiers Of Ward 57
Michael Weisskopf, Senior Correspondent for Time Magazine and an Award Winning Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, February 09, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Biography • Family • Media and journalism • Military • War Crimes
Friday July 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, And The Birth Of Modern Nations
Craig Nelson, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, January 19, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Biography • History • United States history
Friday July 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultous Election Of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign
Edward J. Larson, Professor of History and Law at Pepperdine University and the 1998 Receipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, October 25, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: History • United States history
Monday July 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Nixon And Mao: The Week That Changed The World
Margaret MacMillan, Provost of Trinity College, Professor of History at the Unversity of Toronto, and Award Winning Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, March 08, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: History • United States history • China
Monday July 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, And The Making Of A Mass Pubilc
Sarah E. Igo, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow at Yale University's Whitney Humanities Center 2006-7
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics
Tuesday July 08, 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 • How-to
Tuesday July 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
Welfare Reform: Falling Between the Cracks
Randy Albelda, Ph.D., Professor of Eocnomics , University of Massachusetts Boston
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Categories: Community • Family • Public Policy • Welfare Reform
Wednesday July 09, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Future Of The Internet And How To Stop It
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and Co-Founder of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Technology • Computers • Internet
Wednesday July 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
Illinois’ Political History: The More Things Change, the More they Stay the Same
Kent Redfield, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, and Interim Director of the Institute for Legislative Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield
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Categories: Government • History • Politics
Thursday July 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
Nixonland: The Rise Of A President And The Fracturing Of America
Rick Perlstein, a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Government • History • United States history • Politics
Thursday July 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Cure Within: A History Of Mind-Body Medicine
Anne Harrington, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the History of Science Department at Harvard University
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, April 01, 2008, 10 am
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Categories: Community • Human Rights • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity • Romani • Violence • Europe
Friday July 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
One Minute To Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, And Castro On The Brink Of Nuclear War
Michael Dobbs, Reporter for the Washington Post
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • Military • National Security • Russia • Cuba
Friday July 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
Recent Flooding in the Midwest: When Will it Ever End?
Gerald E. Galloway, Jr., P.E., Ph.D., the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
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Categories: Environment • Geography • Government
Monday July 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
Vaccinations: A Matter for Public Health
Paul A. Offit, M.D., The Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Monday July 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
Proposed Updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act
Curtis L. Decker, J.D., Executive Director of the National Disability Rights Network, Washington, D.C.
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Tuesday July 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Kafka Comes To America: Fighting For Justice In The War On Terror A Public Defender's Inside Account
Steven T. Wax, J.D., the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon and Ethics Prosecutor for the Oregon State Bar
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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • Human Rights • Law • National Security • Politics • Terrorism
Tuesday July 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
Implications of the United States Supreme Court Decision in Boumediene v. Bush (pronounced Beh-mid-ee-en)
Gary A. Isaac, J.D., Counsel, Mayer Brown, LLP, Chicago, Illinois
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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Incarceration • Human Rights • International Affairs • Law • Politics
Wednesday July 16, 2008, 10:06 AM
Environmental Crime and Worker Endangerment
David M. Uhlmann, J.D., The Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice, and the Inaugural Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Categories: Environment • Health • Labor/worker issues • Law
Wednesday July 16, 2008, 11:06 AM
United States Special Operations Forces
David C. Tucker, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Defense Analysis, Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Military • Terrorism
Thursday July 17, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Man Who Pushed America To War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, And Obsessions Of Ahmad Chalabi
Aram Roston, Emmy Award-Winning Investigative Reporter
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 10 am
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Categories: Biography • War Crimes • Iraq
Thursday July 17, 2008, 11:06 AM
Blood And Belief: The PKK And The Kurdish Fight For Independence
Aliza Marcus, Journalist
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Friday July 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor in Finance at the College of Business at the University of Illinois
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Friday July 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
Freedom of Speech in the United States: The Freedom to Offend
Frederick Schauer, M.B.A, J.D., The David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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Categories: Civil Rights • Freedom of Speech • Law
Monday July 21, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Maintenance
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
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Monday July 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
My Stroke Of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., Neuroanatomist affiliated with Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianaoplis; National Spokesperson for the Mentally Ill at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center
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Categories: Biography • Health
Tuesday July 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Invisible Wounds of War"
Terri Tanielian, Codirector of the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research, and the Deputy Director for Public Health Preparedness of the RAND Center for Domestic and International Heatlh Security
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Categories: Government • Health • Health Policy • Military • Psychiatry • Psychology • War Crimes
Tuesday July 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Pixar Touch: The Making Of A Company
David A. Price, Historian and Writer
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Categories: Business and Economy • Film/Movies • Technology
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 10:06 AM
God's Crucible: Islam And The Making Of Europe, 570-1215
David Levering Lewis, Professor of History at New York University and Pulizter Prize Winning Writer
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History • Religion • War Crimes
Wednesday July 23, 2008, 11:06 AM
Money in the 2008 Elections and Campaign Finance Reform
Thomas E. Mann, Ph.D., the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
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Categories: Politics
Thursday July 24, 2008, 10:06 AM
World Food Prices and Current World Trade Organization Talks
Robert L. Thompson, Ph.D., Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
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Categories: Agriculture • Consumer issues • Economics • Food • Foreign Policy-U.S.
Thursday July 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow, Television Screenwriter, Creator of Award Winning Games, and a Lecturer in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology
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Categories: Science
Friday July 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped The NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, And Loom As The Next Financial Crisis
Roger Lowenstein, Journalist and Contributor to The New York Times Magazine, SmartMoney, and Portfolio
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Labor/worker issues • Public Policy
Friday July 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Romani: A People Without a Country
Erika B. Schlager, J.D., Counsel for International Law, United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the Helsinki Commission), Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Human Rights • International Affairs • Law • Race/Ethnicity • Romani • Violence • Europe
Monday July 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
General Issues in Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
John C. Ruckdeschel, M.D., President and CEO of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Cancer Center,and Associate Dean of Cancer Affairs at Wayne State University's School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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Categories: Disease • Cancer • Health
Monday July 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecologist with the Women's Health Practice, Champaign, Illiinois and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Health
Monday July 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
Outlaw Journalist: The Life And Times Of Hunter S. Thompson
William McKeen, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida, Gainesville
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Categories: Biography • Media and journalism
Tuesday July 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Susan M. Wachter, Ph.D., the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management; Professor of Real Estate; Finance Co-Director in the Institute for Urban Research; Director at the Wharton GeoSpatial Initiative, The Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Government
Wednesday July 30, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Bridge At The Edge Of The World: Capitalism, The Environment, And Crossing From Crisis To Sustainability
James Gustave Speth, the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy at Yale University
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Wednesday July 30, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Cult Of The Presidencey: America's Dangerous Devotion To Executive Power
Gene Healy, J.D., Senior Editor at the Cato Institute
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Categories: Government • Politics
Thursday July 31, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Olympics: Have They Ever Been Without Politics?
John Hoberman, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Germanic Studies, Department of Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Categories: History • Politics • Sports
Thursday July 31, 2008, 11:06 AM
Relentless Pursuit: A Year In The Trenches With Teach For America
Donna Foote, Freelance Journalist and Former Newsweek Correspondnent
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Categories: Education
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