Focus 580 Archives for month of March 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday March 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror
Jonathan Stevenson, J.D., Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic Research Department of the Center for Naval Warfare STudies at the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • History • United States history • Military • Defense • Politics • Terrorism
Monday March 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
How Community Organizations Result in Community Savings
Lyn Jones, President and CEO, United Way of Champaign County
Brenda Davis Koester, Coordinator of Programs at the Family Resiliency Center, University of Illinois
Dale Morrissey, CEO of Developmental Services Center, Champaign
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- United Way of Champaign County
- Pampered Chef Family Resiliency Program
- Developmental Services Center of Champaign
Categories: Adolescents • Biography • Champaign County • Children • Community • Health • Disabilities • Nonprofits
Tuesday March 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Malaria Research and Eradication
Alan Magill MD, FACP, FIDSA COL / MC , Director, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland
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Categories: Disease • Malaria • Medicine • Military • Defense
Tuesday March 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Afghanistan
Karin von Hippel, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and CoDirector of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, Center for Strategic and International and Studies
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Afghanistan • Pakistan
Wednesday March 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Appetizers, Starters, and Snacks
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Cooking
Wednesday March 04, 2009, 11:06 AM
Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam
Con Coughlin, Executive Foreign Editor of The Daily Telegraph
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • Iran
Thursday March 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
An Overview of Renewable Energy Certainties and Probabilities for this Century
Dan Arvizu, Ph.D., Director of the United State's Department of Energy's National Renewable energy Laboratory, Golden Colorado
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Categories: Energy • efficiency • sustainability • Environment • Natural Resources
Thursday March 05, 2009, 11:06 AM
How the Lyceum Influenced Lincoln’s Rhetoric
Angela G. Ray, Ph.D.,, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
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Categories: Abraham Lincoln • Education • Literature • Rhetoric/Debate
Friday March 06, 2009, 10:06 AM
Engaging the Muslim World
Juan R. I. Cole, Ph.D., Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, University of Michigan
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • Iraq
Friday March 06, 2009, 11:06 AM
Evanescent Isles From My City-Village
Xu Xi, one of Hong Kong's Leading English Writers; Visiting Writer, University of Iowa MF Program, Spring Semester
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Categories: Literature • China
Monday March 09, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America
Steven Johnson, Web Entrepreneur and Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 10 am
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Monday March 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
Storm Preparedness
Ed Kieser, WILL Meteorologist
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Categories: Weather
Tuesday March 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 March 10, 2009, 11:06 AM
"The Surprise of Religion in Modern America"
Jon Butler, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; Howard R. Lamar Professor of American History, Yale University
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Categories: Religion
Wednesday March 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
Thomas Ricks, Senior Pentagon Correspondent, The Washington Post
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Categories: History • Military • War • Iraq
Wednesday March 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
Foot Care
Robert J. Born, DPM, Podiatrist, Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Thursday March 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Steve Knopper, Journalist and a Rolling Stone Contributing Editor
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, January 26, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Music
Thursday March 12, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, February 04, 2009, 11 am
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Categories: Behavior
Friday March 13, 2009, 10:06 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 11 am
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Categories: Law
Friday March 13, 2009, 11:06 AM
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Martha A. Sandweiss, Ph.D., Professor of History, Princeton University
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, February 27, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Biography
Monday March 16, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday March 16, 2009, 11:06 AM
Antibiotics in the Food Chain
Holly Dolliver, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Geology/Soil Science, Department of Plant and Earth Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
John A. Herrmann, DVM MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor, Veterinary Clinical Medicine Section Head, Community Health and Preventive Medicine Director, DVM/MPH Program, University of Illinois
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Categories: Agriculture • Animals • Consumer issues • Food • Health
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Promising Strategies for Improving K12 Education in Illinois: Improving the Educator Work Force"
Benjamin Superfine, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Mark Smylie, Ph.D., Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
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Categories: Education
Tuesday March 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court
Cliff Sloan, J.D., Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C.; former Supreme Court Clerk and former Publisher of Slate magazine
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Wednesday March 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
Implications for Illinois and Beyond from Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
Paul C. Giannelli, M.S.F.S., J.D., and LL.M., Albert J. Weatherhead III and Richard W. Weatherhead Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio
Rob Warden , Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Award-winning Legal Affairs Journalist, and Founding Editor and publisher of Chicago Lawyer
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Incarceration • Government • Judiciary • Law • Science • Forensics
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Spartacus War
Barry Strauss, Professor of History and Classics at Cornell University
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Thursday March 19, 2009, 10:06 AM
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
Paul Ekman, Manager, Paul Ekman Group, LLC; Writer; Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco
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Categories: Behavior
Thursday March 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
Four Proposals for a Judiciary Act of 2009
Paul D. Carrington, LL.B., Professor of Law, Duke University
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Government • Courts • Judiciary • Federal • Law
Friday March 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 March 20, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Urbana Park District April 7 Referendum
Vicki Mayes, Urbana Park District Executive Director
Michael Walker, Urbana Park District Board President
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Categories: Community • Recreation
Monday March 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
Policy Framework to Strengthen Community Corrections and One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections
William D. Burrell, M.A., Independent Corrections Management Consultant, formerly with Temple University's Department of Criminal Justice and Adult Probation Services for the New Jersey State Court System
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Categories: Community • Criminal Justice • Community Corrections • Incarceration • Parole • Reentry • Government • Courts
Monday March 23, 2009, 11:06 AM
Issues Affecting a Harmonious Family in Strained Financial Times
Johusa Coleman, Ph.D., Psychologist; Faculty Member of San Francisco PsychoTherapy Group
Stephanie Coontz, Ph.D., Professor of History and Family Studies, Evergreen State College
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Categories: Family
Tuesday March 24, 2009, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Mexico: State of War, Reverse Migration and Other Issues
Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times Reporter and Author
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Categories: Immigration • Politics • Mexico
Tuesday March 24, 2009, 11:06 AM
Inventing America's "Worst" Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of Literature and History and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Categories: Biography • Community • History • United States history
Wednesday March 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 10 am
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Wednesday March 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of World
Niall Ferguson, Ph.D., Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University; a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 10 am
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Thursday March 26, 2009, 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, Arkansas State University
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 10 am
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Thursday March 26, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Assassin's Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
Kate Clifford Larson, Ph.D., Lecturer at Simmons College
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, January 08, 2009, 10 am
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Friday March 27, 2009, 10:06 AM
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Michael K. Honey, Ph.D., Haley Professor of the Humanities and American History, University of Washington, Tacoma
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, January 12, 2009, 10 am
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Friday March 27, 2009, 11:06 AM
We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam
Joseph L. Galloway, Award Winning War Correspondent for UP, Vietnam War
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, January 15, 2009, 11 am
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Monday March 30, 2009, 10:06 AM
Is Socialism Coming to the United States? Myths, Realities, and Variations
Sylvia Maxfield, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Federal Budget • Finance • credit • Government • Politics • Public Policy
Monday March 30, 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 March 31, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Gwen Ifill, Journalist; Moderator and Managing Editor of Washington Week; Senior Correspondent of TheNewsHours with Jim Lehrer
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Categories: Politics • Race/Ethnicity
Tuesday March 31, 2009, 11:06 AM
Spring Bird Watching and Migration
Michael P. Ward, Ph.D., Coordinator of the Critical Trends Assessment Program and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
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Categories: Birds • Environment
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