Focus 580 Archives for month of April 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Wednesday April 01, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking
A. Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday April 01, 2009, 11:06 AM
Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
Todd Tucker, Writer
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Thursday April 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Nancy Marie Brown, Writer and Scholar
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Categories: History
Thursday April 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
"Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Public Policy Solutions"
Robert Kaestner, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Illinois, Chicago; Faculty Member of the University of Illinois Insitutute of Government and Policy Affairs
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Categories: Health
Friday April 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford
Geri Spieler, Investigative Journalist
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Categories: History • United States history
Friday April 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
An Island Called Home: returning to Jewish Cuba
Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, and Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellows Award
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 11 am
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Categories: Cuba
Monday April 06, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
Alan Boss, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
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Categories: Science • Astronomy
Monday April 06, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York
Matthew Goodman, Journalist and Historian
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Tuesday April 07, 2009, 10:06 AM
Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Abroad and in South Asian Immigrant Populations
Shamita Das Dasgupta, Ph.D., Co-Founder Manavi, Inc., and Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, New York,
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Categories: Race/Ethnicity • Asian/Pacific Islander • United States • Violence • Spousal Abuse • Afghanistan • India • Pakistan
Tuesday April 07, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Andrea Tone, Canada Research Chair, Social History of Medicine, Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of History at McGill University
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Categories: Health • Prescription Drug Abuse • Public Health • Psychology
Wednesday April 08, 2009, 10:06 AM
"The Silent Elephant in the Climatic Room"
Brian Fagan, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change
Wednesday April 08, 2009, 11:06 AM
Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity in the Time of Lincoln
Susan Zaeske, Ph.D.,, Professor and Chair, Communication Arts Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Categories: Abraham Lincoln • Civil Rights • Freedom of Speech • Communication • History • United States history • Politics
Thursday April 09, 2009, 10:06 AM
Reform or Retrenchment: Postcommunist Eurasia and the World Economic Crisis
Eugene K. Lawson, Ph.D., Founder and President (Ret.), United States-Russia Business Council, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Business and Economy • Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Russia
Thursday April 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
Toward a More Walkable and Bicycle-Friendly Community
Mark Fenton, Writer, Consultant and Former host of PBS' America's Walking
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Categories: Behavior • Children • Community • Disease • Health
Friday April 10, 2009, 10:06 AM
Communicating the Issues of Climate Change
Susanne C. Moser, Director and Principal Researcher, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change
Friday April 10, 2009, 11:06 AM
"Scarface Again, or New Media and the Problem of Disposable People"
Curtis Marez, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinema and Television, University of Southern California; Editor of American Quarterly
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Monday April 13, 2009, 10:06 AM
On Deep History and the Brain
Daniel Lord Smail, Ph.D., Professor of History, Harvard University
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History
Monday April 13, 2009, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Family Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician, Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health
Tuesday April 14, 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 April 14, 2009, 11:06 AM
Fiscal Wake-Up Tour 2009: Entitlement Programs and their Impact on the Economic and Social Health of the Nation
Andrew Biggs, Ph.D., Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Robert L. Bixby, J.D., Executive Director of The Concord Coalition
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Categories: Business and Economy • Government
Wednesday April 15, 2009, 10:06 AM
Rules of Evidence and Juror Behavior
Olin Guy Wellborn III, Ph.D., William C. Liedtke, Sr. Professor of Law, The University of Texas School of Law
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Categories: Law
Wednesday April 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
"Science and Technology and the Survival of Humankind"
Edison Liu, Ph.D., Director, Genome Institute of Singapore and George A. Miller Visiting Professor, University of Illinois
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Categories: Science • Technology
Thursday April 16, 2009, 10:06 AM
Politics Not as Usual? Illinois’ Prospects for the Future
Bernard Schoenberg, Political Columnist for The State Journal-Register, Springfield
Sean Crawford, WUIS Statehouse Bureau Chief, Springfield
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Categories: Politics • United States • Illinois
Thursday April 16, 2009, 11:06 AM
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Tom Zoellner, Journalist
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Categories: History
Friday April 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
Kevin Waspi, Lecturer, Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois
John Micetich, C.F.P., President and Owner, Kennsignton Financial and Adjunct Professor, Finance, University of Illinois
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Friday April 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
Personal Finance
Kevin Waspi, Lecturer, Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois
John Micetich, C.F.P., Adjunct Professor, Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois
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Categories: Personal Finance
Monday April 20, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Hank Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday April 20, 2009, 11:06 AM
Patient and Hospital Safety: Taking an Active Role in Your Care
Robert M. Wachter, M.D., The Lynne and Marc Benioff Chair in Hospital Medicine, and Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Franscisco
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Categories: Health • Public Health
Tuesday April 21, 2009, 10:06 AM
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens through the Twenties
Jeffrey Arnett, Ph.D., a Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Clark University
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Categories: Behavior
Tuesday April 21, 2009, 11:06 AM
Biofuel Laws, Policy, and Regulation: What It Means for Illinois
Jody Endres, J.D., Attorney, Energy Biosciences Institute, Biofuels Law and Regulation Program, University of Illinois
A. Bryan Endres, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Agricultural Law, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois
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Categories: Energy • University of Illinois
Wednesday April 22, 2009, 10:06 AM
Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to Zuma
Alec Russell, World News Editor, Financial Times and formerly Financial Times Johannesburg Bureau Chief
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Categories: Biography • History • Politics • Africa • South Africa
Wednesday April 22, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Riki Ott, Ph.D., Author and Activist
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Categories: Animals • Birds • Community • Environment
Thursday April 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Exploring the Universe with the World's Most Powerful Microscope"
Jonathan Richard Ellis, Ph.D., Theoretical Physicist with CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Categories: Science • Astronomy
Thursday April 23, 2009, 11:06 AM
Children, Violence and Peace: What are the Lessons for Childrearing?
Judith Ennew, Ph.D., Head of Programme Development at Knowing Children, Bangkok, Thailand
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Categories: Children • Cultural Studies • Family • Poverty • Violence
Thursday April 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
Current Events in the Hellenic Republic (Greece)
Vassilis Lambropoulos, Ph.D., C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan
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Friday April 24, 2009, 11:06 AM
Slang: The People's Poetry
Michael Adams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of English, Indiana University
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Categories: English Language
Monday April 27, 2009, 10:06 AM
Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
Julia Angwin, Award-Winning Jouralist, Wall Street Journal
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Categories: Business and Economy • Technology • Internet
Monday April 27, 2009, 11:06 AM
Budgeting for Basic Needs: A Struggle for Working Families, and Related Issues
Kinsey Alden Dinan, M.A., Senior Policy Associate, National Center for Children in Poverty, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
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Tuesday April 28, 2009, 10:06 AM
Until it Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How it Harms Our Kids
Mark Hyman, Contributing Editor for sports business at BusinessWeek; Contributing Columnist for the Sports Business Journal
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Categories: Behavior • Children • Family • Sports
Tuesday April 28, 2009, 11:06 AM
America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care
Katherine Baicker, Ph.D., Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Categories: Consumer issues • Health • Health Policy • Public Policy
Wednesday April 29, 2009, 10:06 AM
Talk with the Veterinarian and Animal Control Warden
Maureen McMichael, DVM, Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, and Service Head-Emergency Room and Critical Carem Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Illinois
Chelsea Angelo, Animal Control Warden, City of Urbana
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Categories: Animals • Community • Health • Public Health • Law • Public Policy
Wednesday April 29, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
David Kilcullen, Expert on guerrilla warfare and Special Advisor for Counterinsurgency to Condoleezza Rice
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Categories: War
Thursday April 30, 2009, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in Tibet
Carole McGranahan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder
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Thursday April 30, 2009, 11:06 AM
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government; and a member of the departments of Anthropology; Political Science; and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures; and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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Categories: Terrorism • War • War Crimes • Africa
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