Focus 580 Archives for month of August 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday August 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Snake Head: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
Patrick Radden Keefe, Fellow at The Century Foundation
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Categories: History • United States history • Immigration • Asia • China
Monday August 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
The East Central Illinois Regional Water Supply Planning Committee Report
Edward Mehnert, Ph.D., Sr. Geohydrologist, Illinois State Geological Survey and Institute of Natural Resources Sustainability, University of Illinois
Brad Uken, Regional Water Supply Planning Committee Chair, and Public Representative
William A. Smith, Ph.D., Retired Adjunct Professor of Recreation, Sport andTourism, University of Illinois, and Municipalities' Representative
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Categories: Champaign County • Community • Environment • Water resources • Infrastructure • Natural Resources
Tuesday August 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of Ameica
Steven Johnson, Writer and Web Entrepreneur
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 10 am
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Tuesday August 04, 2009, 11:06 AM
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
Seth G. Jones, Ph.D., Political Scientist, RAND Corporation; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreighn Serivce; and Professor, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
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Categories: Military • United States • War • Asia • Afghanistan
Wednesday August 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking
A. Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Categories: Cooking
Wednesday August 05, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Ugly Laws: Disabilty in Public
Susan M. Schweik, Ph.D., Professor of English and Co-Director of the Disabilty Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Government • Health • Disabilities • History • United States history • Human Rights
Thursday August 06, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Role of the Community College in the Educational Process
Alice M. Jacobs, Ph.D., President, Danville Area Community College
Gayle Saunders, Ph.D., President, Richland Community College
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Categories: Business and Economy • Community • Education • WILL Connect
Thursday August 06, 2009, 11:06 AM
Prisons as Mental Health Asylums, and the History of Mental Health Treatment in the Post Institutional Era
David L. Shern, Ph.D., President and CEO, Mental Health America
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Friday August 07, 2009, 10:06 AM
Political and Social Implications for the Arab World During the Economic Downturn
Michele Dunne, Ph.D., Senior Associate, and Editor Arab Reform Bulletin, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Economics • Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Politics • Trade • Middle East
Friday August 07, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency
Matthew M. Aid, Scholar; Visiting Fellow at the National Security Archive at George Washington University
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Categories: Government • History
Monday August 10, 2009, 10:06 AM
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
Vincent J. Cannato, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts
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Categories: History • Immigration
Monday August 10, 2009, 11:06 AM
Family Health
Jeffrey Swearingen, M.D., Family Practice Physician, Carle Clinic, Urbana
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Categories: Health
Tuesday August 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension Service
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture
Tuesday August 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
David R. Montgomery, Ph.D., Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Wednesday August 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
Coping with Unemployment
Robert L. Leahy, Ph.D., Author of The Worry Cure: Seven Steps to Stop Worry from Stopping You; Director, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy; President, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; Associate Editor, International Journal of Cognitive Therapy; Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell University Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital
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Categories: Behavior • Labor/worker issues • Employment • WILL Connect
Wednesday August 12, 2009, 11:06 AM
To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Nicolas Schmidle, Fellow, New America Foundation
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Categories: Biography • Asia • Pakistan
Thursday August 13, 2009, 10:06 AM
Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq
Charles Duelfer, Deputy Chairman of the United Nations weapons inspection organization (UNSCOM from 1993-2000
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Categories: Decision -Making • History • United States history • Military • Politics • Middle East • Iraq
Thursday August 13, 2009, 11:06 AM
Auto Safety on the Road: Cell Phones and Beyond
Clarence M. Ditlow, LL.M., Executive Director, Center for Auto Safety
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Categories: Automotive • Consumer issues • Government • Health
Friday August 14, 2009, 10:06 AM
Parkland College's Workforce Development Services
Minor W.Jackson, III, B.S., Executive Director, Workforce Development Parkland College Illinois workNet Center
This program about the economy in central Illinois is part of WILL Connect. It grew out of community conversations WILL held this summer in Champaign, Vermilion, and Macon Counties.
If you or a family you know needs help keeping up, we encourage you to visit willconnect.org/economy. From there you can hear other reports and programs about the economy’s effect. You can also connect to agencies in your area for guidance and counseling. We thank First Call for Help Decatur, United Way of Danville, Family Service of Champaign County and the Community Service Center in Rantoul for their partnership. For more information, click on the link below.
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- Illinois Employment Training Center
- Parkland College
- WILL's Conversations on the Economy and Community Resources
Categories: Business and Economy • Community • Education • Labor/worker issues • United States • Illinois
Friday August 14, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Years of Talkling Dangerously
Geoffrey Nunberg, Ph.D., Adjunct Full Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information and Consulting Full Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
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Categories: English Language • Language and Linguistics • Politics
Monday August 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: How-to
Monday August 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
Woodsburner
John Pipkin, Novelist
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Categories: Literature
Tuesday August 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
Who Owns Water Resources?
Eric Freyfogle, J.D., the Max T. Rowe Professor of Law, College of Law, University of Illinois
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Categories: Environment • Water resources
Tuesday August 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis And What To Do About It
Robert Glennon, J.D., Ph.D., the Morris K. Udall Professor Law and Pubic Policy, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
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Categories: Environment • Water resources
Wednesday August 19, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Cul-De-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream
John F. Wasik, Personal Finance Columnist for Bloomberg News
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Categories: Business and Economy • Housing
Wednesday August 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
How the Economy is Affecting Illinois' Seniors
Mike O'Donnell, MUP, Executive Director, East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
This program about the economy in central Illinois is part of WILL Connect. It grew out of community conversations WILL held this summer in Champaign, Vermilion, and Macon Counties.
If you or a family you know needs help keeping up, we encourage you to visit willconnect.org/economy. From there you can hear other reports and programs about the economy’s effect. You can also connect to agencies in your area for guidance and counseling. We thank First Call for Help Decatur, United Way of Danville, Family Service of Champaign County and the Community Service Center in Rantoul for their partnership. For more information, click on the link below.
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- East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging
- WILL's Conversations on the Economy and Community Resources
Categories: Aging/Seniors • Family • Health • Elder-Care • Nonprofits • United States • Illinois
Thursday August 20, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars
Christopher Cokinos, Assistant Professor of English, Utah State University; Award-Winning Writer
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Categories: Science
Thursday August 20, 2009, 11:06 AM
How the Economy is Affecting Adults and Children in Champaign-Urbana
Andre Arrington, BSW, Executive Director, Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club, Champaign
This program about the economy in central Illinois is part of WILL Connect. It grew out of community conversations WILL held this summer in Champaign, Vermilion, and Macon Counties.
If you or a family you know needs help keeping up, we encourage you to visit willconnect.org/economy. From there you can hear other reports and programs about the economy’s effect. You can also connect to agencies in your area for guidance and counseling. We thank First Call for Help Decatur, United Way of Danville, Family Service of Champaign County and the Community Service Center in Rantoul for their partnership. For more information, click on the link below.
more information, click on the link below.
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Categories: Children • Community • Family • Sports • United States • Illinois • WILL Connect
Friday August 21, 2009, 10:06 AM
Personal Finance
David Sinow, Clinical Professor of Finance, College of Business; Director, Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research, University of Illinnois
Guest Host: Jay Pearce
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Categories: Personal Finance
Friday August 21, 2009, 11:06 AM
War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraqi Wars
Richard N. Haass, Ph.D., President of the Council on Foreign Relaions
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, June 03, 2009, 11 am
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Monday August 24, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Brian A. Nelson, Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, June 05, 2009, 10 am
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Monday August 24, 2009, 11:06 AM
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary, Director of the San Francisco Writers Workshop
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, July 08, 2009, 11 am
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Tuesday August 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
Insect Control
Philip Nixon, Entomologist, University of Illinois Extension Services
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Tuesday August 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Earwig's Tail: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends
May Berenbaum, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois
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Categories: Insects
Wednesday August 26, 2009, 10:06 AM
Rethinking Juvenile Justice
Elizabeth S. Scott, J.D., the Harold R. Median Professor of Law, Columbia University
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Categories: Adolescents • Children • Criminal Justice
Wednesday August 26, 2009, 11:06 AM
Making Your Wishes Known: Advanced Care Planning
Diane E. Meier, M.D., Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care; Director, Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, and Professor, Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Categories: Decision -Making • Health • Advanced Care Planning • Medicine
Thursday August 27, 2009, 10:06 AM
Re-Entry into the Work Force
Billie Mitchell, Director, Adult Re-Entry Center, Parkland College
Kristina Taylor, Financial Ad Advisor and Veteran Services Coordinator, Parkland College
Andrea Young, Workforce Development Grants Coordinator, Parkland College
More than ever, your economic success depends on time spent in the classroom. And today, adults in growing numbers are thinking about starting or finishing a college degree. This program is about the challlenges and rewards of returning to school as an adult.
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Categories: Business and Economy • Education • Labor/worker issues
Thursday August 27, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
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Categories: Behavior • Infants
Friday August 28, 2009, 10:06 AM
Current Events in Honduras
Andres Thomas Conteris, Founder of Democracy Now! en Espanoll; Director of the Program on the Americas of Nonviolence International; Filmmaker with Raven's Call Productions; Human Rights Activist
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Categories: Central America Honduras • Government • Human Rights
Friday August 28, 2009, 11:06 AM
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
Robert J. Norrell, Ph.D., Bernadotte Schmitt Professor of History, University of Tennessee
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Categories: Biography • History • European history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Monday August 31, 2009, 10:06 AM
K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikit Krushchev, America's Most Unlikely Terrorist
Peter Carlson, Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, July 07, 2009, 10 am
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Monday August 31, 2009, 11:06 AM
Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary
Bertrand M. Patenaude, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Library and Archives and Lecturer, Stanford University
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Categories: Biography • History
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