Focus 580 Archives for month of May 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Friday May 01, 2009, 10:06 AM
Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics
Paul Street, Ph.D., Independent Journalist, Policy Adviser, and Historian
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Categories: Government • History • United States history • Politics
Friday May 01, 2009, 11:06 AM
"Sexual Orientation and The Constitution"
Martha Nussbaum, Ph.D., Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The Law School, University of Chicago
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Categories: Law
Monday May 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Emergence of Syria and Other Current Developments in the Arab World
Joshua M. Landis, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, and Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studiesin the School of International and Area Studies, University of Oklahoma
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Middle East • Syria
Monday May 04, 2009, 11:06 AM
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Andrew Ross, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University
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Categories: Business and Economy • Work
Tuesday May 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
The World Is Fat: The Fad, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race
Barry Popkin, Ph.D., Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, University of North Carolina
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Categories: Health
Tuesday May 05, 2009, 11:06 AM
Communication and Information Technology Infrastructure, and Public Policy
Christian Sandvig, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, and Research Associate Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy • Communication • Community • Technology • Internet
Wednesday May 06, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Fruitless Pies
A. Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday May 06, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East
Neil MacFarquhar, Former New York Tiimes Cairo Bureau Chief, 2001-2005; New York Times UN Bureau Chief
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Categories: Biography • Travel • Middle East
Thursday May 07, 2009, 10:06 AM
Beardstown, Illinois: the Multiculturalization of a Rural Town
Faranak Miraftab, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Categories: Agriculture • Assimilation • Labor/worker issues • Race/Ethnicity • Urban Planning • Work
Thursday May 07, 2009, 11:06 AM
Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonny and Clyde
Jeff Guinn, Award-Winning Writer and Journalist
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Categories: Biography • Crime • History • United States history
Friday May 08, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health's 2009 Pilot Study Report
Ben Locke, Ph.D.,, Assistant Director, Research and Technology Affiliate Faculty, Counseling and Clinical Psychology, and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health, Penn State University
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Categories: Health • Mental Health • Psychiatry • Psychology
Friday May 08, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History--and How We Can Fight Back
Alan Michael Collinge, founder of the political action committee StudentLoanJustice.org
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Categories: Education • university • Students
Monday May 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes
Bryan Burrough, Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine
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Categories: Business and Economy • Cultural Studies • Politics
Monday May 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Sri Lanka
John Richardson, Ph.D., Professor of International Development, American University's School of International Service; Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, American University
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Tuesday May 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension Service of Champaign County
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture
Tuesday May 12, 2009, 11:06 AM
Why GM Matters: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon
William J. Holstein, Writer
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Categories: Automotive • Business and Economy
Wednesday May 13, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cyber Security and the Electrical Grid
George Gross, Ph.D., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois
Himanshu Khurana, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois
William H. Sanders, Ph.D., Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering; Director, Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois
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Wednesday May 13, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Illinois Reform Commission Final Report
Patrick Collins, J.D., Partner, Perkins Coie LLP and Illinios Reform Commission Chair
Lawrence Oliver II, J.D., Chief Counsel, Investigations, The Boeing Company and Illinois Reform Commission Member, Chicago
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Categories: Government • United States • Illinois
Thursday May 14, 2009, 10:06 AM
International Legal Responses to Piracy – Somalia and Beyond
Eugene Kontorovich, J.D., Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University
Kevin J. Cosgriff, M.S., Vice Admiral, United States Navy (Ret.)
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Thursday May 14, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Spartacus War
Barry Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of History and Classics, Cornell University
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 11 am
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Friday May 15, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Carl J. Schramm, Ph.D., J.D., President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
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Categories: Business and Economy • Economics • Government
Friday May 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
Infrastructure in Illinois and Beyond
Arnab Chakraborty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
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Categories: Business and Economy • Government • Transportation • United States • Illinois • Urban Planning
Monday May 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday May 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetricianand Gynecologist with The Women's Health Practice, Champaign
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Categories: Health • Women's Health
Tuesday May 19, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed, Scholar and Investment Manager
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Categories: Business and Economy
Tuesday May 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in Pakistan
William Milam, Former Ambassador ro Pakistan and Bangladesh, and Woodrow Wilson center Senior Policy Scholar, Washington, DC
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Asia • Bangladesh • Afghanistan • India • Pakistan
Wednesday May 20, 2009, 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 May 20, 2009, 11:06 AM
Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
Todd Tucker, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, April 01, 2009, 11 am
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Thursday May 21, 2009, 10:06 AM
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Steve Knopper, Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, January 26, 2009, 10 am
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Thursday May 21, 2009, 11:06 AM
Slang: The People's Poetry
Michael Adams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of English, Indiana Universitiy
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, May 21, 2009, 11 am
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Friday May 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Africa • South Africa
Friday May 22, 2009, 11:06 AM
Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
Colin Grant, Independent Historian and BBC Radio Producer with the Science Unit
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11 am
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Categories: Biography • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Monday May 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and Writer
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Monday May 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets
Alan Boss, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestial Magnetism
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, May 06, 2009, 10 am
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Tuesday May 26, 2009, 10:06 AM
Insect Control
Philip Nixon, Extension Entomologist, University of Illinois
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Categories: Insects
Tuesday May 26, 2009, 11:06 AM
Insects
May Berenbaum, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Entomology Department, University of Illinois
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Wednesday May 27, 2009, 10:06 AM
Detroit's Auto Industry: Here Today. Gone Tomorrow?
Dennis Virag, , President, Automotive Consulting Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Categories: Automotive • Business and Economy • Government • Labor/worker issues
Wednesday May 27, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
Gwen Ifill, Journalist; Moderator and Managing Editor of Washington Week; Senior Correspondent of TheNewsHour with Jim Leher
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 10 am
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Thursday May 28, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Biography • Asia • China
Thursday May 28, 2009, 11:06 AM
Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage
Paul Ekman, Manager, Paul Ekman Group, LLC; Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, March 19, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Business and Economy • Education • university • Sports
Friday May 29, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Homestead Corporation of Champaign-Urbana and Affordable Mixed-income Housing
Aaron Smith, Executive Director of the Homestead Corporation of Champaign-Urbana
Leonard F. Heumann, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Psychology, University of Illinois
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Categories: Architecture • Community • Consumer issues • Housing • United States • Illinois • Urban Planning
Friday May 29, 2009, 11:06 AM
Columbine
Dave Cullen, Journalist
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Categories: Adolescents • Crime • Education
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