Focus 580 Archives for month of October 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Wednesday October 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Food
Wednesday October 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Project Vote Smart
Adelaide Elm Kimball, Senior Advisor and a Board Member of Project Vote Smart
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Categories: Government • Elections
Thursday October 02, 2008, 10:06 AM
"The View from the Street: Attitudes toward Politics and Religion among Ordinary Citizens in the Arab World"
Mark Tessler, Ph.D., the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science; Director of the International Institute; Vice Provost for Interational Affairs at the University of Michigan
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Categories: Middle East
Thursday October 02, 2008, 11:06 AM
Coming Of Age In Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores The Virtually Human
Tom Boellstorff, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Technology • Internet • Virtual World
Friday October 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
"What's New About the New Immigrants?"
Nancy Foner, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Immigration
Friday October 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
The World Food Crisis
Gale Summerfield, Ph.D., Director, Women and Gender In Global Perspectives Program, and Associate Professor of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois
Mary Arends-Kuenning, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
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Categories: Food • International Affairs
Monday October 06, 2008, 10:06 AM
Social Activism for Civil Rights
Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Award Winning Journalist formerly with WHUR, NPR and National Geographic
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Categories: Children • Civil Rights • Community • Education • History • United States history
Monday October 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
Baghdad At Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War In Iraq
Peter R. Mansoor, the General Raymond Mason Chair of Military History at Ohio State University and formerly Executive Officer to Commanding General David H. Petraeus of the Multi-National Force-Iraq
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Categories: Military • War Crimes • Iraq
Tuesday October 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Fallen Giants: A History Of Himalayan Mountaineering From The Age Of Empire To The Age Of Extremes
Stewart Weaver, Professor of History at the University of Rochester and book Co-Author
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Categories: Mountaineering
Tuesday October 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
"World Englishes in the Global Context"
Kingsley R. Bolton, Ph.D., Professor of English Linguistics at Stockholm University
Yamuna Kachru, Ph.D., Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Language and Linguistics
Wednesday October 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Work
Richard Thompson Ford, The George E. Osborne Professor Law, Stanford Law School
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, May 09, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: History • United States history
Wednesday October 08, 2008, 11:06 AM
Xenophobia in South Africa
Teresa A., Barnes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Gender/Women's Studies, University of Illinois
Bekisizwe Ndimande, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Illinois
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Categories: Human Rights • Immigration • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity • Violence • Africa • Mozambique • South Africa • Zimbabwe
Thursday October 09, 2008, 10:06 AM
Sway: The Irresistible Pull Of Irrational Behavior
Ori Brafman, Organizational Expert and Speaker
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Categories: organizational behavior
Thursday October 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
Protecting the Homeland
Admiral James M. Loy, Senior Counselor, The Cohen Group
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Categories: National Security
Friday October 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
House Resolution 6357 and Health Privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
Twila J. Brase, R.N., President, Citizens' Council on Health Care
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Categories: Consumer issues • Health • Health Policy
Friday October 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
Iran, Iraq and the U.S. Global War on Terror
Colin Flint, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois
Behrooz Gharmari, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois
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Categories: International Affairs • Terrorism • Iran • Iraq
Monday October 13, 2008, 10:06 AM
The United States’ Health Workforce: Out of Order, Out of Time
Steven Wartman, M.D., Ph.D., President, Association of Academic Health Centers, and formerly Executive Vice President for Academic and Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio
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Categories: Consumer issues • Education • Health • Medicine
Monday October 13, 2008, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Family Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician at Carle Clinic, Urbana
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Categories: Health
Tuesday October 14, 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 October 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln And The Great Secession Winter 1860-1861
Harold Holzer, Lincoln Scholar, CoChairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Prize Winning Writer, and Senior Vice President for External Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Categories: Abraham Lincoln • Biography • Government • History • United States history
Wednesday October 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Addicitive Diseases and Recovery: Definitions and Impacts on Individuals and Families
Paul H. Earley, M.D., FASAM, Medical Director, Talbott Recovery Campus, Atlanta, Georgia
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Categories: Addiction Treatment/Recovery • Disease • Family • Health • Medicine • Psychiatry • Psychology
Wednesday October 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Monetary Crisis Over There: Europe and Beyond
Adam S. Posen, Ph.D., Deputy Director, and Senior Fellow of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Europe
Thursday October 16, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Numerati
Stephen Baker, a Senior Writer at Businessweek and Co-Writer of a blog Blogspotting.net
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Categories: Personal Data
Thursday October 16, 2008, 10:06 AM
Trade Policy: What U.S. Manufacturers and Small Businesses Need to Compete in a Global Age
Ken Goldstein, Ph.D., Economist with The Conference Board, New York
Scott Paul, Executive Director, Alliance for American Manufacturing
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Categories: Consumer issues • Economics • Labor/worker issues
Friday October 17, 2008, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance in the College of Business and Director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research at the University of Illinois
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Friday October 17, 2008, 11:06 AM
Shifting Strategic United States' Interests: Latin America and Africa
Merle Bowen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, University Of Illinois
Nils Jacobsen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs
Sunday October 19, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday October 20, 2008, 11:06 AM
Health Information Online: Sorting Out the Good from the Bad, and Who Uses It
Lisa Massengale, MLIS, Assistant Information Services Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago Library of the Health Sciences
Susannah Fox, Associate Director, Editorial, Pew Internet & American Life Project
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Categories: Consumer issues • Disease • Health • How-to • Medicine • Technology • Internet
Monday October 20, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Afghanistan
Mark Mazzetti, National Security Correspondent for The New York Times
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Categories: Afghanistan
Monday October 20, 2008, 11:06 AM
Fred Astaire
Joseph Epstein, Editor and Writer
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Categories: Biography
Wednesday October 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
Born Digital: Understanding The First Generation Of Digital Natives
John Palfrey, the Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean at Harvard Law School; and Faculty Director of the Berkman Center for Internet Society
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Categories: Technology • Computers • Internet
Wednesday October 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
"How Can the USA and the World Develop Effective Policies for Dealing with Global Climate Change?"
Christine A. Ervin, President, Christine Ervin/Company, Portland Oregon; first President and CEO of the Green Building Council; and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy
Paul R. Portney, Dean of the Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tuscon; former President and CEO of Resources for the Future; former Chief Economist for the White House Council on Environmental Quality
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- Christine Ervin website
- Paul R. Portney
- University of Illinois Institute of Government & Public Affairs
Categories: Environment • Climate Change
Thursday October 23, 2008, 10:06 AM
"The Flute Player: Moving Beyond the Madness of War"
Arn Chorn-Pond, Human Rights Activist and Founder of Cambodian Living Arts of Boston and Phnom Penh
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Categories: Violence • War Crimes
Thursday October 23, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Return of Imperial Russia: Russia and Its Neighbors
Roger E. Kanet, Ph.D., Professor of International Studies, University of Miami, and Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois
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- Professor Kanet's departmental bio
- Professor Kanet's paper in the ACDIS Occasional Paper series September 2008
Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Russia
Friday October 24, 2008, 10:06 AM
Presidential Debates: Fifty Years Of High-Risk TV
Alan Schroeder, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Northeastern University
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Categories: Biography • Government • Elections • Media and journalism
Friday October 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
Is the United States a Global Power in Decline?
Derrick Frazier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois
Richard Tempest, Ph.D., Director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Illinois
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Monday October 27, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Privatization of the United States’ Intelligence Services: Allegiance to Whom?
Patrick Radden Keefe, J.D., program Officer and Fellow, The Century Foundation, New York
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Categories: Intelligence Services • International Affairs • Terrorism
Monday October 27, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Champaign County Sales Tax Referendum for Support of Schools
John Dimit, Former Executive Director of the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission and Vice President of the Urbana Board of Education
Dianna Visek, Chairman of the Champaign County Libertarian Party and Political Activist
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Categories: Education • Government
Tuesday October 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
Interview
William S. Merwin, Environmentalist, Translator, and Award Winning Poet
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Categories: Literature • Poverty
Tuesday October 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
Restorative Justice: What It Is, Why It Works, and What It Can Mean for Us
Howard Zehr, Ph.D., Professor of Restorative Justice at the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Restorative Justice • Government • History • United States history • Judiciary • Public Policy • Sociology
Wednesday October 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 To The Eavesdropping On America
James Bamford, Former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight and a Journalist
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • Intelligence Services
Wednesday October 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Skin Care
Ann Tice, M.D., F.A.A.D., Dermatologist
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Categories: Health • Skin Care
Thursday October 30, 2008, 10:06 AM
"The Rise of Disaster Capitalism in Latin America"
Naomi Klein, Activist and Journalist; author of Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
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Thursday October 30, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Devil We Know: Dealing With The New Superpower
Robert Baer, Writer and Former Case Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency
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Categories: Energy • oil • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Terrorism • Iran
Friday October 31, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 10 am
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Categories: Law
Friday October 31, 2008, 11:06 AM
Happiness: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Psychological Wealth
Ed Diener, Ph.D., the Joseph R. Smiley Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois and a Senior Scientist for the Gallup Organization
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Categories: Psychology
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