Focus 580 Archives for month of November 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday November 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
"Macroeconomic Disasters Since 1870"
Robert J. Barro, Ph.D., University of Illinois' Cline Center for Democracy 2008 Northern Trust Forum Speaker, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research
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Categories: Business and Economy • Community • Consumer issues • Economics • Federal Budget • Government • Public Policy
Monday November 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
"Hearing Lincoln and the Making of Eloquence"
Robert A. Ferguson, J.D., Ph.D., George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature and Criticism, Columbia University
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- Professor Ferguson's bio
- The Lincoln Bicentennial Program from the Office of Public Engagement at the University of Illinois
Categories: Abraham Lincoln • History • United States history • Law • Literature • Rhetoric/Debate
Tuesday November 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Election Cake or Eccentric Cakes
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Tuesday November 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, The Great War, And The Right To Dissent
Ernest Freeberg, Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee
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Categories: Biography • Government • Elections • History • United States history
Wednesday November 05, 2008, 10:06 AM
Election 2008: Illinois with Bethany Jaeger; and at 10:35 AM, Election 2008: Political Participation, Voting Behavior and Campaign Dynamics with Scott McClurg
Bethany Jaeger, Statehouse Bureau Chief, Illinois Issues Magazine
Scott D. McClurg, Ph.D. , Associate Professor Political Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Guest Host: David Inge and Celeste Quinn
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Categories: Government • Elections
Wednesday November 05, 2008, 11:06 AM
Election 2008: The New Administration's First One Hundred Days with David Lewis; and at 11:35 AM, Election 2008: Economic & Labor Issues with Anne Villamil
David E. Lewis, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Anne P. Villamil, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Illinois
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Categories: Government • Elections
Thursday November 06, 2008, 10:06 AM
Economic and Political Priorities of the Current Russian Administration
Alexei Novikov, Office Head, Standard and Poor's, Moscow, Russia
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Categories: Economics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Russia
Thursday November 06, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Good Thief: A Novel
Hannah Tinti, Novelist and CoEditor of One Story
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Categories: Literature
Friday November 07, 2008, 10:06 AM
Nature's New Deal: Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement
Neil Maher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Federated History Department NJIT-Rutgers University, Newark
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Categories: Community • Environment • Federal Budget • History • United States history • Natural Resources • Preservation
Friday November 07, 2008, 11:06 AM
Sustainable Buildings
William B. Rose, Research Architect, Building Research Council
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Categories: Architecture
Monday November 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Current and Future State of the American Auto Industry
Kim Hill, Assistant Director of the Business and Economics Group and, Director, Automotive Communities Program of the Center for Automotive Research, Ann Arbor
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Categories: Automotive • Business and Economy
Monday November 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
What Blood Won't Tell: A History Of Race On Trial In America
Ariela J. Gross, Ph.D., the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California
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Categories: History • United States history • Law
Tuesday November 11, 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 November 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
Hello, Everybody! The Dawn Of American Radio
Anthony Rudel, Writer and former Vice President of Programming for WQXR and SW Radio Networks
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Categories: Media and journalism
Wednesday November 12, 2008, 10:06 AM
Getting a Good Night's Rest: Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Charles R. Davies, M.D., Ph.D., Neurologist at Carle Foundation Hospital Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Urbana
Keith B. White, Ph.D., Psychologist at Carle Foundation Hospital Regional Sleep Disorders Center,Urbana
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Categories: Health
Wednesday November 12, 2008, 11:06 AM
Climate Change: Policy Issues for the New President and Congress
Peter Frumhoff, Ph.D., Director of Science & Policy, Union of Concerced Scientists and Chief Scientist of the UCS Climate Campaign
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change • Science
Thursday November 13, 2008, 10:06 AM
"The Cultural Politics of Identity and the Cuban Revolution"
Louis A. Perez Jr., Ph.D., the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MillerComm Speaker
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History • Cuba
Thursday November 13, 2008, 11:06 AM
The AIDS Epidemic in the United States
Philip Alcabes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Public Health in the MPH Program in Community Health Education at Hunter College, City University of New York, and Visiting Associate Clinical Professor Appointment,Yale University School of Nursing
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Categories: Disease • AIDS • Health • Public Health • Medicine
Friday November 14, 2008, 10:06 AM
Factory Girls: From Village To City Changing China
Leslie T. Chang, Journalist
Guest Host: Stephen Lyons
interview recorded on November 13
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Categories: Gender issues • Labor/worker issues • China
Friday November 14, 2008, 11:06 AM
On Their Own: Women Journalists And The American Experience In Vietnam
Joyce Hoffman, Award Winning Journalist; Public Editor of the Virginian-Pilot; Associate Professor of Journalism, Old Dominion University
Guest Host: Ron Yates
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Categories: History • United States history • Media and journalism • Vietnam
Monday November 17, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday November 17, 2008, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecolgist with the Women's Health Practice, Champaign; and Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Health
Tuesday November 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
Ali H. Alyami, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Democracy & Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Human Rights • International Affairs • Saudi Arabia
Tuesday November 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
Dolphin Mysteries: Unlocking The Secret Of Communication
Kathleen Dudzinski, Ph.D., Director of the Dolphin Communication Project; CoEditor of the journal Aquatic Mammals; and Adjunct Faculties of the University of Southern Mississippi, Alaska Pacific University, and the University of Rhode Island
Toni Frohoff, Ph.D., Director of TerraMar Research; Research Director of the Whale Stewardship Project; a Faculty Affiliate for the Kerulos Centre; and CoEditor of Between Species: Celebrating The Dolphin-Human Bond
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Categories: Animals • Environment • Science
Wednesday November 19, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Anthony W. Gambino, Independent Consultant on International Development and Foreign Policy Issues, formerly with the United States' Agency for International Development
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Human Rights • International Affairs • Africa • Democratic Republic of Congo
Wednesday November 19, 2008, 11:06 AM
Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus And The Search For A Way Out Of Iraq
Linda Robinson, Award Winning Journalist and Author in Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies
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Categories: Military • War Crimes • Iraq
Thursday November 20, 2008, 10:06 AM
Mexico: A Narco State?
Michael A. Braun, Drug Enforcement Agency Chief of Operations, Special Agent (Ret.) and Managing Partner with Spectre Group International, LLC., Alexandria, Virginia
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Drug Enforcement Agency • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • Violence • Mexico
Thursday November 20, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
Eric Rauchway, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis
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Categories: Government • History • United States history
Friday November 21, 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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Categories: Personal Finance
Friday November 21, 2008, 11:06 AM
Rivers of America
Tim Palmer, Photographer, Award Winning Writer and Conservationist
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Categories: Environment
Monday November 24, 2008, 10:06 AM
Binge Drinking
Robert J. Chapman, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor of Behavioral Health Counseling & Associate Director Behavioral Health Counseling Program, College of Nursing & Health Professions, Drexel University; Consultant and Trainer for Alcohol and Other Drug Services
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Categories: Addiction Treatment/Recovery
Monday November 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Ascent Of Money: A Financial History Of The World
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University; a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University; a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Categories: Business and Economy • History
Tuesday November 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
Winter Car Care
Rick Karch, Owner, Rick's Automotive, Champaign
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Categories: Automotive
Tuesday November 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
Samuel Adams: A Life
Ira Stoll, Vice President and Managing Editor of The New York Sun
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Categories: Biography • Government • History • United States history
Wednesday November 26, 2008, 10:06 AM
Fallen Giants: A History Of Himalayan Mountaineering From The Age Of Empire To The Age Of Extremes
Stewart Weaver, Ph.D., Professor of History at the University of Rochester and book co-author
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Categories: Mountaineering
Wednesday November 26, 2008, 11:06 AM
Gandhi: The Man, His People, And The Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi, Ph.D., Reserch Professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, September 09, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Biography • History
Thursday November 27, 2008, 10:06 AM
Coming Of Age In Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores The Virtually Human
Tom Boellstorff, Ph.D., Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, October 02, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Technology • Computers • Internet • Virtual World
Thursday November 27, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Numeratii
Stephen Baker, a Senior Writer at Businessweek and Co-Writer of a blog Blogspotting.net
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11 am
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Friday November 28, 2008, 10:06 AM
Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln And The Greatest 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Abraham Lincoln • History • United States history
Friday November 28, 2008, 11:06 AM
Havana Nocturne: How The Mob Owned Cuba...And Then Lost It To The Revolution
T. J. English, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Cuba
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