Focus 580 Archives for month of February 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday February 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
Algeria Anger of the Dispossessed
Martin Evans, Professor, Contemporary European History, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK
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Categories: History • Human Rights • Terrorism • War Crimes • Africa • Algeria
Monday February 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
David Whyte, Associate Fellow of Said Business School, Oxford University; Poet and Writer
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Categories: Human Development • Work
Tuesday February 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
Political Strategy and Public Opinion in the Words of Abraham Lincoln
David Zarefsky, Ph.D., Owen L. Coon Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
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Categories: Abraham Lincoln • History • United States history • Politics • Rhetoric/Debate
Tuesday February 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Criminal Brain: Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
Nicole Rafter, Ph.D., Professor and Senior Research Fellow, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University; Affiliated Faculty Member, Law, Policy, and Society Program, Northeastern University
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Categories: Crime • Cultural Studies • Law
Wednesday February 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday February 04, 2009, 11:06 AM
Born to be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley; Director, the Center for the Greater Good Science Center; CoEditor, Greater Good Magazine
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Thursday February 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
Muslim/Western Relations
Anouar Majid, Professor and Founding Chair, Department of English, University of New England
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Thursday February 05, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Availability and Quality of Educational Programming for Children on Commercial Television
Barbara Wilson, Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor of Communication; Head, Department of Communication; Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
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Categories: Children • Television
Friday February 06, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Heirlooms, Artifacts, and Family Treasures: A Preservation Emporium"
Jennifer Hain Teper, Head, Department of Conservation, University Library, University of Illinois
Christa Deacy-Quinn, Collection Manager, Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois
Guest Host: Jack Brighton
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Categories: Preservation
Friday February 06, 2009, 11:06 AM
Winter Skin Care
Ann Tice, M.D., Dermatologist
Guest Host: Jack Brighton
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Categories: Health • Skin Care
Monday February 09, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Theory of Light & Matter
Andrew Porter, Award Winning Fiction Writer and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
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Monday February 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Family Practice Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Tuesday February 10, 2009, 10:06 AM
Lawn & Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension Service of Champaign County
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture
Tuesday February 10, 2009, 11:06 AM
Three Generations No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
Paul Lombardo, Ph.D., Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
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Categories: Judiciary • Federal • Law
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
James Oakes, Ph.D., Humanities Chair and Professor of History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Categories: Abraham Lincoln
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War
Conor Foley, Humanitarian Aid Worker; a Research Fellow at the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham
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Categories: Human Rights
Thursday February 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Role of the University Press
Willis G. Regier, Ph.D., Director, University of Illinois Press; Writer, Editor and Reviewer; President of the Association of American University Presses 2000-2001
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Categories: Book Industry • University of Illinois
Thursday February 12, 2009, 11:06 AM
Diet Safety: Myths and Some Realities
William G. Helferich, Ph.D., Professor, Food Science & Human Nutrition, and Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois
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Categories: Agriculture • Animals • Food • Health • Nutrition
Friday February 13, 2009, 10:06 AM
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?
Joel Berg, Executive Director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger
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Categories: Hunger
Friday February 13, 2009, 11:06 AM
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Peter W. Singer, Ph.D., Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
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Monday February 16, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
Guest Host: David Thiel
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Categories: How-to
Monday February 16, 2009, 11:06 AM
Do Newspapers Have a Future?
John Foreman, Publisher and President of The Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette and News-Gazette Community Newspapers; Director and Past Chairman of the Illinois First Amdendment Center
Mary Cory, Publisher and General Manager, Illini Media Company
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Categories: Business and Economy • Media and journalism
Tuesday February 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
What Obama Means for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future
Jabari Asim, Editor-in-Chief of the NAACP's "The Crisis" magazine; Playwright; Journalist; Scholar-in-Residence in African American Studies and Journalism at the University of Illinois
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Categories: Biography • Civil Rights • Cultural Studies • Politics • Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday February 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle Over Our Heritage
James Cuno, Ph.D., President and Director of the Art Institute od Chicago
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 11 am
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Wednesday February 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
Worker Displacement, Labor Relations, and Community Cohesion
Robert Hironimus-Wendt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, Western Illinois University
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Categories: Business and Economy • Community • Labor/worker issues • Employment • United States • Illinois
Wednesday February 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
Eisnstein: 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
Thursday February 19, 2009, 10:06 AM
The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans
Aaron Glantz, Independent Journalist and currently a Rosealynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at the Carter Center
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Categories: Military
Thursday February 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
Living with Coronary Heart Disease: A Guide for Patients and Families
Jerome E. Granato, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Allegheny General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Drexel College of Medicine
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Categories: Disease
Friday February 20, 2009, 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 February 20, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation
Thomas C. Reed, a former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Secretary of the Air Force under Presidents Ford and Carter; Special Assistant to President Reagan for National Security Policy
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • Military
Monday February 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
Medicaid and Health Care in Illinois Today
Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist in the Division of Health Policy and Administration , School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert Kaestner, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Categories: Business and Economy • Children • Health • Health Policy
Monday February 23, 2009, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecologist with The Women's Health Practice, Champaign
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Categories: Health
Tuesday February 24, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Insect Fear Film Festival
May R. Berenbaum, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois
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Categories: Film/Movies • Insects • Judiciary • Science
Tuesday February 24, 2009, 11:06 AM
Bridge of Sand: A Novel
Janet Burroway, Novelist, Poet, and Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita, Florida State University
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Categories: Writing
Wednesday February 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
Heather Rogers, Environmentalist Writer, Journalist, and Filmmaker
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Categories: Environment
Wednesday February 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
Ben Sherwood, Executive Director of TheSurvivorsClub.org; Novelist; Award Winning Journalist
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Categories: Behavior
Thursday February 26, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Percy Jackson and the Ollympians Series for Children and the Tres Navarre Mystery Series for Adults
Rick Riordan, Writer
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Categories: Literature • Writing
Thursday February 26, 2009, 11:06 AM
The National Economic Crisis and Illinois' Fiscal Future
J. Fred Giertz, Head of the Department of Economics; Professor of Economics and at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
Richard F. Dye, Professor of Economics at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Finance • Government • United States • Illinois
Friday February 27, 2009, 10:06 AM
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss, Ph.D., Professor of History at Princeton University
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Categories: Biography • Race/Ethnicity
Friday February 27, 2009, 11:06 AM
2009 Consumer Reports Best & Worst Cars
Mike Quincy, Automotive Specialist, Consumer Reports Auto Test Center
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Categories: Automotive
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