Focus 580 Archives for month of June 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Tuesday June 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
Current Developments in North Korea
Douglas H. Paal, Ph.D., Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • International Affairs • Asia • Korea • North • South
Tuesday June 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
Men's Health
Ronald Peter Konchanin, M.D., Urologist, Carle Clinic, Urbana
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Categories: Health
Tuesday June 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Salads
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday June 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
Richard N. Haass, Ph.D., President of the Council on Foreign Relations
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Categories: Government • War
Wednesday June 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
Capturing, Storing and Using Solar Energy
Angus Rockett, Ph.D., Department Associate Head and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
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Categories: Energy • Solar • sustainability
Thursday June 04, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, April 07, 2009, 11 am
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Categories: Behavior • Biography
Friday June 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Brian A. Nelson, Journalist; Teaches at Johns Hopkins University
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Categories: History • Politics • South America • Venezuela
Friday June 05, 2009, 11:06 AM
Skin Care
Lester Fahrner, M.D., Dermatologist, Christie Clinic
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Categories: Health • Skin Care
Monday June 08, 2009, 10:06 AM
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend
Joshua Blu Buhs, Independent Scholar
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Categories: Biography
Monday June 08, 2009, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Family Physician
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician, Carle Clinic, Urbana
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Categories: Health
Tuesday June 09, 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 June 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
Moshik Temkin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Categories: Biography • Criminal Justice • Cultural Studies • Politics
Wednesday June 10, 2009, 10:06 AM
Flat Broke in the Free Market: How Globalization Fleeced Working People
Jon Jeter, Journalist; former Washington Post Bureau Chief for South Africa 1999 to 2003 and former Post Bureau Chief South America from 2003 to 2004
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Categories: Cultural Studies
Wednesday June 10, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 11 am
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Thursday June 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
Patricia T. O'Conner, Former Editor at The New York Times Book Review
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Categories: English Language
Thursday June 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
Travel As a Political Act
Rick Steves, Travel Writer
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Categories: Travel
Friday June 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
Dad's Awesome Grilling Book: Techniques, Tips, Stories & More Than 100 Recipes
Bob Sloan, Food Writer
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Friday June 12, 2009, 11:06 AM
"Racial Residential Segregation and Exclusion in Illiniois"
Maria Krysan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago; IGPA faculty member
James W. Loewen, Ph.D., Sociologist and Researcher
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Categories: Housing • Public Policy • Race/Ethnicity
Monday June 15, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Inspection
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Monday June 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
Mark S. Micale, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Illinois
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Categories: Behavior • Health • Mental Health • History • United States history • Medicine
Tuesday June 16, 2009, 10:06 AM
One Supreme Court: Supremacy, Inferiority, and the Judical Power of the United States
James E. Pfander, Professsor Law at Northwestern Univesity School of Law
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Categories: Geography • Judiciary
Tuesday June 16, 2009, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in Russia
Stephen Kotkin, Ph.D., Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Professor of History and International Affairs; Director, Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, Princeton University
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Europe • Russia
Wednesday June 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, Tax Exemption, and College Athletics
John Colombo, J.D., Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Illinois
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Categories: Community • Education • university • Law • Sports
Wednesday June 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
Stealing My Space: The Battle to control the Most Popular Website in America
Julia Angwin, Award Winning Journalist, Wall Street Journal
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, April 27, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: History
Thursday June 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
Greg Kot, Music Critic for the Chicago Tribune; Cohost of the nationally syndicated radio program Sound Opinions
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Categories: Business and Economy • Entertainment • Law • Music
Thursday June 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Future of the Airline Industry
David Grossman,, "Business Traveler" Columnist for U.S.A. Today.com, and former airline industry executive
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Categories: Transportation • Airlines • Travel
Friday June 19, 2009, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
Kevin Waspi, Lecturer, Finance, College of Business, University of Illinois
Guest Host: Rita Schulte
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Categories: Economics • Finance • Personal Finance
Friday June 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
Taking Aim at the President: The Remarkable Story of the Woman Who Shot at Gerald Ford
Geri Spieler, Investigative Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, April 03, 2009, 10 am
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Monday June 22, 2009, 10:06 AM
iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era
Mark Andrejevic, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa and a Fellow, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, December 08, 2008, 10 am
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Monday June 22, 2009, 11:06 AM
Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy
Shane Hamilton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, University of Georgia
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, January 30, 2009, 10 am
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Tuesday June 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
Car Care
Rick Karch, Owner of Rick's Automotive, Champaign
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Categories: Automotive
Wednesday June 24, 2009, 10:06 AM
Risk and Disaster: Are You Prepared?
Eric Klinenberg, Ph.D.,, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, New York University
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Categories: Behavior • Communication • Disasters • Public Policy • Sociology • United States
Wednesday June 24, 2009, 11:06 AM
Lake with No Name: A True Story of Love and Conflict in Modern China
Diane Wei Liang, Scholar and Novelist
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Categories: Biography • Politics • Asia • China
Thursday June 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
Illinois Gambling: Is Government Addicted to Something That Doesn't Work?
John Warren Kindt, J.D., S.J.D., Professor of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy • Government
Thursday June 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
In the Valley of the Mist Kashmir: One Family in a Changing World
Justine Hardy, Writer, Journalist, Filmmaker, and Aid-Worker
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Categories: Cultural Studies
Friday June 26, 2009, 10:06 AM
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Beryl Satter, Ph.D., Chair and Professor, Federated Department of History, Rutgers University, Newark
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Categories: Economics • Government • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • United States • Illinois • Urban Planning
Friday June 26, 2009, 11:06 AM
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
David A. Kessler, M.D., Pediatrician; Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Former Dean of the Medical Schools at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco
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Monday June 29, 2009, 10:06 AM
American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT
James E. McWilliams, Ph.D., a former Felllow in the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University; Associate Professor of History, Texas State University, San Marcos
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Categories: History • United States history • Insects
Monday June 29, 2009, 11:06 AM
Cameras and Photography
Brian Johnson, Associate Head, Department of Journalism; Professor, Professor of Journalism, College of Media, University of Illinois
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Categories: Photography
Tuesday June 30, 2009, 10:06 AM
"What's Wrong with Torture?"
David Sussman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
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Tuesday June 30, 2009, 11:06 AM
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of Willim Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Thomas Maier, Award-Winning Investigative Journalist at Newsday
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Categories: Behavior • Biography
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