Focus 580 Archives for month of August 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Friday August 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat
Eric Roston, Journalist and formerly a Science Policy and Technology Writer with Time
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Categories: Business and Economy • Energy • Environment • Natural Resources • Science
Friday August 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Illinois Water Issues
Derek Winstanley, Ph.D., Chief Emeritus, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign
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Categories: Agriculture • Consumer issues • Environment • Water resources
Monday August 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
Insect Control
Philip Nixon, Extension Specialist, PAT/Ornamental Household insects, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois
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Monday August 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Dark Side: The Inside Story Of How The War On Terror Turned Into A War On American Ideals
Jane Mayer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker specializing in in political and investigative reporting
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Categories: Civil Rights • Ethics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • History • Human Rights • International Affairs • Law • National Security • Terrorism
Tuesday August 05, 2008, 10:06 AM
Banana: The Fate Of The Fruit That Changed The World
Dan Koeppel, Writer
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Categories: Agriculture • Business and Economy • Economics • Environment • Food • Geography • Labor/worker issues • Science
Tuesday August 05, 2008, 11:06 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 10 am
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Categories: Politics • Technology • Internet
Wednesday August 06, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Food
Wednesday August 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
The First Campaign: Globalization, The Web, And The Race For The White House
Garrett M. Graff, Editor At Large at Washingtonian Magazine, Founding Editor of the blog FishbowlDC.com, and a Teacher of Journalism and New Media at Georgetown Unviersity
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Categories: Environment • Government • Elections • Technology • Internet
Thursday August 07, 2008, 10:06 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, June 23, 2008, 11 am
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Thursday August 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
Tracking Food Borne Illness
Sandra A. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Fellow with Resources for the Future
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Categories: Agriculture • Animals • Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Disease • Environment • Food • Health
Friday August 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win The Working Class And Save The American Dream
Ross Douthat, Senior Editor at the Atlantic
Reihan Salam, Associate Editor at the Atlantic and a Fellow at the New America Foundation
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Categories: Government • Elections • History • United States history • Politics
Friday August 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
Children's Health
Malcolm Hill, M.D., Pediatrician at Carle Clinic
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Monday August 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned The Free Market And Why Liberals Should Too
James K. Galbraith, the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government/Business Relations at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics
Monday August 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Family Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician at Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Tuesday August 12, 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
Tuesday August 12, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Option Of Urbanism: Investing In A New American Dream
Christopher B. Leinberger, Land Strategist, Developer, Teacher, Consultant, and Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution
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Categories: Architecture • Art and Design • Community • Environment • Public Policy • Transportation • Urban Planning
Wednesday August 13, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Cuba
William M. LeoGrande, Ph.D., Dean, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Politics • Cuba
Wednesday August 13, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Political Brain: The Role Of Emotion In Deciding The Fate Of The Nation
Drew Weston, Professor in the Department of Psychology at Emory University
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, July 25, 2007, 11 am
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Categories: Psychology
Thursday August 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed The World
David Maraniss, an Associate Editor at The Washington Post and 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
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Thursday August 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Gastroenterologist
Claudia Nugent, M.D., Gastroenterologist with Christie Clinic
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Categories: Health
Friday August 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
Kevin Waspi, CFA, Lecturer in the Department of Finance, College of Business at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Personal Finance
Friday August 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
Chain Of Blame: How Wall Street Caused The Mortgage And Credit Crisis
Mathew Padilla, a Business Reporter for the Orange County Register
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics
Monday August 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
Guest Host: Jay Pearce
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Monday August 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, And The Roots Of TheEnvironmental Movement
Dan O'Neill, Journalist and Alaska Historical Society's Alaska Historian of the Year
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, May 08, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: History • United States history
Tuesday August 19, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, July 11, 2008, 10 am
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Categories: History • International Affairs • Russia • Cuba
Tuesday August 19, 2008, 11:06 AM
Boris Yeltsin: A Life
Timothy J. Colton, Ph.D., the Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, June 09, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Biography • Russia
Wednesday August 20, 2008, 10:06 AM
Energy and Money Saving Tips
Steve Ayers, M.Ex.Ed., Unit Educator, Farm Business and Marketing, Champaign County Extension Service
Angela Reinhart, Ed.M., Unit Educator, Family Life, Champaign County Extension Service
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics • Energy • Food • How-to • Personal Finance
Wednesday August 20, 2008, 11:06 AM
Cameras and Photography
Brian K. Johnson, Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of Illinois
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Thursday August 21, 2008, 10:06 AM
The New Politics of Judicial Elections in the Great Lakes States, 2000-2008
Bert Brandenburg, J.D., Executive Director, Justice at Stake Campaign, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Government • Elections • Judiciary • State • Law • Politics
Thursday August 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
Great Lakes For Sale From Whitecaps To Bottlecaps
Dave Dempsey, Writer and Communications Director for Conservation Minnesota
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Categories: Energy • water • Environment • Water resources • Government • Natural Resources
Friday August 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Georgia
Richard Tempest, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois
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Categories: International Affairs • War Crimes • Russia
Friday August 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Gulf of Mexico’s Dead Zone: Room and Time for Recovery?
Nancy Rabalais, Ph.D., Executive Director and Professor, Louisian Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, Louisiana
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Categories: Agriculture • Environment • Food • Science
Monday August 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
Broken Justice in Indian Country: Who Prosecutes? Who Pays? Who Walks Away?
N. Bruce Duthu, J.D., Enrolled Houma Tribe of Louisiana Member, Professor of Law, Vermont School of Law, South Royalton, Vermont, and Professor of Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Government • History • United States history • Law • Police • Race/Ethnicity • Native Americans • Violence
Monday August 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
Auto Transportation of the Future
Jim Kliesch, Senior Engineer, Union of Concerned Scientists' Clean Vehicles Program, Washington, D.C.
Ron Burke, Union of Concerned Scientists' Midwest Office Director, Chicago, IL
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Categories: Automotive • Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Economics • Energy • Technology
Tuesday August 26, 2008, 10:06 AM
Care Care
Rick Karch, Owner of Rick's Automotive Service, Champaign
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Categories: Automotive
Tuesday August 26, 2008, 11:06 AM
Havana Nocture: How The Mob Owned Cuba...And Then Lost It To The Revolution
T. J. English, Writer
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Cuba
Wednesday August 27, 2008, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in Pakistan and India
Stephen P. Cohen, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: International Affairs • Politics • India • Pakistan
Wednesday August 27, 2008, 10:06 AM
Meltdown: The Inside Story Of The North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Mike Chinoy, the Edgerton Fellow on Korean Security at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles; Award Winning Journalist formerly with CNN as Bureau Chief in Beijing and Senior Asia Correspondent; and a Visiting Professor at the Annenberg School of Journalism at the University of Southern California
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Categories: International Affairs • Korea
Thursday August 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
The International Criminal Court and War Crimes Tribunals
David Scheffer, LLM, Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law; Director, Center for International Human Rights, Northwestern University; and former U.S. ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues
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- Professor Scheffer's bio
- Northwestern University's Center for International Human Rights
- The International Criminal Court
- United States Department of State Office of War Crimes Issues
Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Law • Politics • Violence • Mass Killings • War Crimes
Thursday August 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, And Costs Lives
Michael Heller, the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law in the School of Law at Columbia University
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics
Friday August 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
Einstein: His Life And Universe
Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute, and Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 10 am
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Categories: Biography
Friday August 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Senator John McCain announces his Vice Presidential running mate, coverage from NPR
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