Focus 580 Archives for month of September 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Tuesday September 01, 2009, 10:06 AM
Columbine
Dave Cullen, Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, May 29, 2009, 11 am
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Tuesday September 01, 2009, 10:06 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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Wednesday September 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Pesto
A. Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday September 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Ph.D., Columnist for the New York Time's "Science Times"
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Categories: Science
Thursday September 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
James B. Kaler, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of Illinois
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Categories: Science • Astronomy
Thursday September 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Status of Russian and American Nuclear Forces
Ivan Oelrich, Ph.D., Acting President of the Federation of American Scientists
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Military • Navy • Nuclear Proliferation • Europe • Russia
Friday September 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
Health Care Reform: What's Really in the Legislation
Mary Agnes Carey, M.A., Kaiser Health News Correspondent
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Categories: Government • Health • Health Policy
Friday September 04, 2009, 11:06 AM
Current Events in Korea
Edward J. Baker, Senior Project Manager, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
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Categories: International Affairs • Politics • Asia • Korea
Monday September 07, 2009, 10:06 AM
Sunnyside: A Novel
Glen David Gold, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, July 10, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Literature
Monday September 07, 2009, 11:06 AM
Into the Beautiful North: A Novel
Luis Alberto Urrea, Professor of Englis/Creative Writing, University of Illinois, Chicago
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, July 02, 2009, 10 am
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Categories: Literature
Tuesday September 08, 2009, 10:06 AM
Lawn and Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension Service
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Categories: Horticulture
Tuesday September 08, 2009, 11:06 AM
Talk with the Gastroenterologist
Claudia Nugent, M.D., Gastroenterologist, Chrisitie Clinic, Champaign, Illinois
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Categories: Health
Wednesday September 09, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Selected Works of TS Spivet
Reif Larsen, Novelist
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Categories: Literature
Wednesday September 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
Children's Health
Malcolm Hill, M.D., Pediatrician, Carle Clinic
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Categories: Health • Children's Health
Thursday September 10, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Saccharin: Gender and Power in Marketing of Artificial Sweetener"
Carolyn de la Pena, Ph.D., Professor of American Studies and Director, Davis Humanities Institute, University of California, Davis
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Thursday September 10, 2009, 11:06 AM
Current Developments in iran
Alex Vatanka, Senior Middle East Analyst, Jane's Information Group, and Adjunct Scholar, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Middle East • Iran
Friday September 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Death of Conservatism
Sam Tanenhaus, Editor of The New York Times Book Review and Week in Review sections
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Categories: Government • History • United States history • Politics
Friday September 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Internal Structure of the CIA and Its Role Within the Larger Intelligence Community
Amy Zegart, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs, Fellow at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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Categories: Criminal Justice • FBI • Foreign Policy-U.S. • Government • Intelligence Services • International Affairs • Terrorism • United States
Monday September 14, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan 1948-1953"
Sandra Schulberg, Independent Film Producer and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Film Division of Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts
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Categories: Film/Movies • Foreign Policy-U.S. • History • European history • United States history • International Affairs • Media and journalism • Europe • Germany
Monday September 14, 2009, 11:06 AM
Religion in America Today
Martin Marty, Ph.D., Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity School; also in the Committee on the History of Culture, University of Chicago
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Tuesday September 15, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss
Charles W. Eagles, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Mississippi
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Categories: Biography • Civil Rights • History • United States history
Tuesday September 15, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obession
Allison Hoover Bartlett, Journalist
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Categories: Biography • Books and Reading
Wednesday September 16, 2009, 10:06 AM
"The South Through Yam Colored Glasses"
John Edge, Food Writer and Commentator; Director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, Institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi; Contributing Editor, Gourmet magazine
Guest Host: Professor David Wright
Carr Series of the Creative Writing Program, University of Illinois
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Food
Wednesday September 16, 2009, 11:06 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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Thursday September 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
Accessing Health Care in Rural America
Paul E. McNamara, Ph.D., M.P.P., Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois
Guest Host: Todd Gleason
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Categories: Health • Health Policy • Rural Health Care Accessibility
Thursday September 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan, Ph.D., Provost of Trinity College; Professor of History, University of Toronto
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, March 08, 2007, 11 am
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Friday September 18, 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
Guest Host: David Thiel
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Friday September 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria
Daniel Jordan Smith, Ph.D., Associate Director, Population Studies and Traiing Center; Associate Professor, Anthropology, Brown University
Guest Host: Carol Spindel
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Sunday September 20, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Inspector with Spies Home Inspection
Guest Host: Chris Harris
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Monday September 21, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Old Way: A Story of the First People
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 11 am
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Tuesday September 22, 2009, 10:06 AM
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
Mark Micale, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and the History of Medicine, University of Illinois
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, June 15, 2009, 10 am
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Tuesday September 22, 2009, 11:06 AM
How Do the Local Schools Measure Up?
Preston L.. Williams, Jr., Ed.D. , Superintendent, Urbana School District 116
Dorland Norris, District Deputy Superintendent, Curriculum Design, Educational Services and Equity, Champaign Unit 4 Schools
Guest Host: Lee Ann Donner
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Tuesday September 22, 2009, 11:06 AM
JAMES TIPTREE, JR.: THE DOUBLE LIFE OF ALICE B. SHELDON
Julie Phillips, Journalist
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, August 31, 2006, 11 am
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Categories: Gender issues • History • United States history • Literature • Writing
Wednesday September 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
Diabetes Care and Life Style Adjustments for the Individual with Diabetes
Martha Trenkamp, R.D., L.D., C.D.E., Clinical Dietician and Certified Diabetes Educator, Carle Foundation
Guest Host: Roger Cooper
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Categories: Behavior • Disease • Diabetes • Nutrition
Wednesday September 23, 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Thursday, June 25, 2009, 11 am
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Thursday September 24, 2009, 10:06 AM
Talk with the Station Manager
Kate Dobrovolny, WILL-AM-FM-TV Station Manager
David Thiel, TV Program Director, Illinois Public Media
Guest Host: Jay Pearce
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Categories: Media and journalism • University of Illinois
Thursday September 24, 2009, 11:06 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
This is a repeat broadcast from Friday, June 26, 2009, 10 am
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Friday September 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-LongSearch to Discover Its Secrets
Jo Marchant, Freelance Journalist specializing in science and history
Guest Host: William Hammack
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Categories: History • Technology
Friday September 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Role of Locally-Owned Media in Communities
Rich Martin, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Illinois
Michael Howie, City Editor, The News-Gazette
Tom Rogers, WILL AM News Director
Guest Host: Kimberlie Kranich
This program is about the economy in central Illinois and is a part of WILL Connect which grew out of community conversations WILL held this summer in Champaign, Vermilion and Macon Counties.
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Categories: Media and journalism • WILL Connect
Monday September 28, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive
John Graham-Cumming, Founder of Electric Clloud
Guest Host: William Hammack
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Monday September 28, 2009, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetricia nand Gynecologist with The Women's Health Practice, Champaign
Guest Host: Rita Schulte
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Categories: Health • Women's Health
Tuesday September 29, 2009, 10:06 AM
Alison Krauss
Ken Irwin, Co-Founder of Rounder Records
Guest Host: George Hauenstein
This interview was recorded on 9/25/09
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Tuesday September 29, 2009, 11:06 AM
Students for Environmental Concerns 40th Anniversary
Eric Green, Graduate Research Assistant, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, ACES, University of Illinois
Anthony Larson, Senior, Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illnois
Elena Solomon, Sophomore, College of Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois
Joe Teng, Former President of Students for Environmental Concerns (by phone)
Guest Host: Steve Shoemaker
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Categories: Environment • University of Illinois
Wednesday September 30, 2009, 10:06 AM
Life Flows On in Endless Song: Folk Songs and American History
Robert V. Wells, Ph.D., Chauncey H. Winters Professor of History, Union College
Guest Host: Lee Ann Donner
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Categories: Music
Wednesday September 30, 2009, 11:06 AM
Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Bill Streever, Ph.D., Biologist and Chair of the North Slope Science Initiative's Science Technical Advisory Panel n Alaska
Guest Host: Stephen Lyons
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Categories: Environment • Science
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