Focus 580 Archives for month of December 2008
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday December 01, 2008, 10:06 AM
The English Language
Dennis Baron, Ph.D., Professor of English
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Categories: Communication • English Language
Monday December 01, 2008, 11:06 AM
Waking Giant: America In The Age Of Jackson
David S. Reynolds, Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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Categories: History • United States history
Tuesday December 02, 2008, 10:06 AM
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the great California Earthquare of 1906
Simon Winchester, Geologist and Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 11 am
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Categories: History • United States history • Science • Seismology
Tuesday December 02, 2008, 11:06 AM
All Hands Down: The True Story Of The Soviet Attack On The USS Scorpion
Kenneth Sewell, U.S. Navy Veteran and Nuclear Engineer
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • International Affairs • Military • Russia
Wednesday December 03, 2008, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday December 03, 2008, 11:06 AM
Public Perceptions of Media Bias: Are They Lying to Me If They Don’t Confirm My Beliefs?
David H. Tewksbury, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Study, Department of Communication, University of Illinois
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Categories: Media and journalism • Politics • Truth
Thursday December 04, 2008, 10:06 AM
Ultralongevity: The Seven-Step Program For A Younger, Healthier You
Mark Liponis, M.D., Medical Director of the Canyon Ranch Spa, Internal Medicine Physician, Speaker, and Contributor to Parade Magazine
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Categories: Health
Thursday December 04, 2008, 11:06 AM
Prescribing Antipsychotic and Other Medications for Children
Cheston M. Berlin, Jr., M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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Friday December 05, 2008, 10:06 AM
Who Owns The Sky? The Struggle To Control Airspace From The Wright Brothers On
Stuart Banner, Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles
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Categories: Business and Economy • Government • Transportation
Friday December 05, 2008, 11:06 AM
Maritime Terrorism and Piracy
Peter Chalk, Ph.D., RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy Analyst, Adjunct Professor at the Postgraduate Naval School in Monterey, California, Contractor for the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in Honolulu and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) in Washington D.C
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Categories: Piracy • Terrorism • Maritime
Monday December 08, 2008, 10:06 AM
iSpy: Surveillance And Power In The Interactive Era
Mark Andrejevic, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and a Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland
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Categories: Technology
Monday December 08, 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 December 09, 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 December 09, 2008, 11:06 AM
Live Coverage of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's New Conference in Chicago on the Charges Brougt against Governor Rod Blagojevich
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Wednesday December 10, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Ascent Of Money: A Financial History Of The World
Niall Ferguson, Ph.D., 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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Wednesday December 10, 2008, 11:06 AM
Impact of Earthquakes on the Central USA: A FEMA Report, November 2008
Amr Elnashai, Ph.D., William J. and Elaine F. Hall Endowed Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, and Director of the Mid-America Earthquake Center
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Thursday December 11, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Impact of No Child Left Behind Legislation on the Teaching of Writing Skills
Sarah J. McCarthey, Ph.D., Professor of Language and Literary in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, University of Illinois
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Thursday December 11, 2008, 11:06 AM
American Ligthning: Terror, Mystery, The Birth Of Hollywood, And The Crime Of The Century
Howard Blum, Journalist and Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair
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Categories: Biography • Business and Economy • Cinema/Theatres/Film
Friday December 12, 2008, 10:06 AM
American Rifle: A Biography
Alex Rose, Journalist and Historian
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Categories: Business and Economy
Friday December 12, 2008, 11:06 AM
White House Alteration of Federal Records on the Iraq War
Scott L. Althaus, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kalev H. Leetaru, B.S., Coordinator of Information Technology and Research at the Cline Center for Democracy, Chief Technology Advisor to the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, and a Center Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois
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Categories: Government • Media and journalism • Politics
Monday December 15, 2008, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Hank Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday December 15, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Future of Urban and Long Distance Rail in the United States
Michael S. Dukakis, J.D., Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, 1988, Governor (Ret.) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Distinguished Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Puentes, M.P., Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program Fellow, and Director of the Program's Infrastructure Initiative, and Affiliated Professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Public Policy • Transportation • Railroads • Urban Transit • Travel
Tuesday December 16, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Snowball: Warren Buffett And The Business Of Life
Alice Schroeder, Writer and Formerly a Wall Street Analyst and a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley
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Categories: Biography • Business and Economy
Tuesday December 16, 2008, 11:06 AM
Interview
Richard Herman, Ph.D., Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Categories: Education • university
Wednesday December 17, 2008, 10:06 AM
As Big As The West: The Pioneer Life Of Granville Stuart
Clyde A. Milner II, Professor and Director of Heritage Studies, Arkansas State University
Carol A. O'Connor, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Studies, and Professor of History, Arkansas State University
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Categories: Biography • History • United States history
Wednesday December 17, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Realities of International Adoption: Children Orphaned or Stolen?
David M. Smolin, J.D., Harwell G. Davis Professor of Constitutional Law, and Director of the Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics, Cumberland Law School of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
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Categories: Adoption • Children • Family • Human Rights • Human Trafficking
Thursday December 18, 2008, 10:06 AM
U. S. Worker Rights and Government Intervention in an Economic Crisis
Nelson Lichtenstein, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Government • Labor/worker issues
Thursday December 18, 2008, 11:06 AM
Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion In The Lives Of American Teenagers
Mark D. Regnerus, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Categories: Children • Cultural Studies • Family • Religion
Friday December 19, 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, University of Illinois
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Categories: Personal Finance
Friday December 19, 2008, 11:06 AM
Integrated Nuclear Waste Management
David S. Kosson, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and CRESP III Co- Principal Investigator, Vanderbilt University
Charles W. Powers, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Engineering Vanderbilt University CRESP III Co- Principal Investigator
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- Professor Kosson's bio
- Professor Powers' bio
- CRESP III Consortium for Risk Evaluation and Stakeholder Participation III
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Monday December 22, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Myths and Realities of Posse Comitatus and Other Homeland Security Issues
Michael Greenberger, J.D., Law School Professor and Director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland, Baltimore
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Categories: Government • Posse Comitatus Act • Military • Politics
Monday December 22, 2008, 11:06 AM
Southern Storm: Sherman's March To The Sea
Noah Andre Trudeau, Award Winning Writer
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Categories: History • United States history • War Crimes
Tuesday December 23, 2008, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Thailand
John J. Brandon, Director, International Relations and Associate Director, The Asia Foundation, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: International Affairs • Politics • Asia • Thailand
Tuesday December 23, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Lord Was Not On Trial: The Inside Story Of The Supreme Court's Precedent-Setting McCollum Ruling
Dannel McCollum, Former Champaign Mayor
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Wednesday December 24, 2008, 10:06 AM
American Rifle: A Biography
Alex Rose, Journalist and Historian
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, December 12, 2008, 10 am
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Wednesday December 24, 2008, 11:06 AM
Samuel Adams: A Life
Ira Stoll, Vice President and Managing Editor of The New York Sun
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 11 am
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Thursday December 25, 2008, 10:06 AM
'Twas the Night Befoe Christmas from PRI
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Thursday December 25, 2008, 11:06 AM
BBC Europe Today
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Friday December 26, 2008, 10:06 AM
Intelligence Squared - Google
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Friday December 26, 2008, 11:06 AM
Intelligence Squared - Bush 43
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Monday December 29, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson, Ph.D., 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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Monday December 29, 2008, 11:06 AM
Ponzi's Schemes: The True Story of a Financial Legend
Mitchell Zuckoff, Professor of Journalism, Boston University
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 11 am
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Tuesday December 30, 2008, 10:06 AM
The Good Thief: A Novel
Hannah Tinti, Novelist and CoEditor of One Story
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, November 06, 2008, 11 am
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Tuesday December 30, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, November 04, 2008, 11 am
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Wednesday December 31, 2008, 10:06 AM
Lie Detector: The History of an American Obsession
Ken Alder, Professor of History and the Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, May 18, 2007, 11 am
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Wednesday December 31, 2008, 11:06 AM
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Impossible
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, May 24, 2007, 10 am
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