Focus 580 Archives for month of November 2009
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Monday November 02, 2009, 10:06 AM
Media Life: The Experience of Love, Sex & Death in Digital Culture
Mark Deuze, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communications, Indiana University and Leiden University
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Categories: Communication • Technology • Internet
Monday November 02, 2009, 11:06 AM
Methamphetamine: Its History, Pharmacology, and Treatment
Ralph Weisheit, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Illinois State University
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Categories: Addiction Treatment/Recovery • Criminal Justice • Drug Enforcement Agency • Health • Medicine
Tuesday November 03, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Darwin Conspiracy
Thomas Roy Davies, Independent Producer, Writer and Former Award-Winning BBC Producer
Carl Woese, Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology, The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois
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Categories: Biography • Environment • Science
Tuesday November 03, 2009, 11:06 AM
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities
Nik Theodore, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Urban Economic Development and Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois Chicago
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- Professor Theodore's profile
- The Report:Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America's Cities
Categories: Crime • Economics • Labor/worker issues • Employment • Law • Slavery
Wednesday November 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
Cooking: Inspiration from the Fall Harvest
Doyle Moore, WILL Chef-in-Residence
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Wednesday November 04, 2009, 11:06 AM
Human Origins and the Fossil Skeleton Ardi
Stanley H. Ambrose, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois
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Categories: Science
Wednesday November 04, 2009, 10:06 AM
H1N1 Prevention and Vaccine
Thomas L. Sutter, D.O., M.P.H., Occupational Medicine Specialist at Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana
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Categories: Health
Thursday November 05, 2009, 10:06 AM
Healing the Broken Mind: Transforming America's Failed mental Health System
Timothy A. Kelly, Ph.D., Principal at the Max De Press Center for Leadership and Director of the DePree Center Pubic Policy Institute and Associate Professor of Psychology, Fuller graduate School of Psychology, Pasadena, California
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Categories: Government • Health • Mental Health
Thursday November 05, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Arctic, It's Hot: Implications of an Ice-Free Arctic for Global Security
Klaus Dodds, Ph.D., Professor of Geopolitics, and Director of Politics & Environment Research Group, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Categories: Environment • Climate Change • Water resources • Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Military • Defense • National Security • Science • Oceans
Friday November 06, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Guardians of Future Generations"
Carolyn Raffensperger, J.D., Environmental Director of the Science and Health Network
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Categories: Environment
Friday November 06, 2009, 11:06 AM
How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Audrey Kurth Cronin, Ph.D., Professor Strategy at the U.S. National War College and Senior Associate in the Changing Character of War Program, University of Oxford
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Categories: Terrorism
Monday November 09, 2009, 10:06 AM
Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?
Michael J. Sandel, Ph.D., the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University
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Categories: Justice
Monday November 09, 2009, 11:06 AM
Burma/Myanmar: What Everyone Needs to Know
David I. Steinberg, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies, Georgetown University
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Categories: History • Asia • Myanmar
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 10:06 AM
Lawn & Garden Care
Sandy Mason, Horticulture Educator, University of Illinois Extension Service
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Categories: Gardening and Horticulture
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chavez and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Brian A. Nelson, Journalist
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Categories: History • Law • South America • Venezuela
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 10:06 AM
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Stephen T. Asma, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Scholar, Columbia College
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Categories: Cultural Studies • History
Wednesday November 11, 2009, 11:06 AM
“The Truth, Tragedy, and Transformation of e-Waste,” the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center and Sustainable Electronics Initiative
Willie Cade, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, PC Rebuilders & Recyclers, Chicago
William C. Bullock, Ph.D., Professor of industrial Design and Director of the Product Interaction Research Laboratory and Design for Energy and Environment Laboratory, University of Illinois
Timothy Lindsey, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center’s Technical Assistance Program, University of Illinois
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Categories: Business and Economy • Community • Education • K-12 • Technology • Computers
Thursday November 12, 2009, 10:06 AM
"The Illinois Economy and the State Budget"
Ralph Martire, J.D., Excecutive Director, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability; Columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, the State Journal-Register, and The Herald News
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Categories: Government • United States • Illinois
Thursday November 12, 2009, 11:06 AM
Consumer Reports 2009 Annual Car Reliability Survey
Mike Quincy, Auto Content Specialist, Consumer Reports
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Categories: Automotive
Friday November 13, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Healthcare Legislation in the House and Senate
David A. Hyman, J.D., M.D., Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor of Law, and Director of the Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy, University of Illinois
James L. Milam, M.D., President, Illinois State Medical Society
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Categories: Health • Health Policy • Law • Medicine
Friday November 13, 2009, 11:06 AM
"Closing the Gap Between Science and Practice"
Roger E. Kasperson, Research Professor and Distinguished Scientist at The George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University
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Categories: Science
Monday November 16, 2009, 10:06 AM
Home Care
Scott Spies, Home Inspector, Spies Home Inspection
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Categories: Home Inspection • How-to
Monday November 16, 2009, 11:06 AM
U.S. Grant American Hero, American Myth
Joan Waugh, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Categories: Biography • History • United States history
Tuesday November 17, 2009, 10:06 AM
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Stephen Kotkin, Ph.D., the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
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Categories: History • European history • International Affairs
Tuesday November 17, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Need for Civility in Society
P.M. Forni, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Literature, Department of German and romance Languages and Literature, Johns Hopkins University and Co-founder of the Johns Hopkins Civility Project
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Categories: Communication • Community • Relationships • Rhetoric/Debate
Wednesday November 18, 2009, 10:06 AM
"Marketplace Solutions: Segregationists and the Surprising History of School Vouchers"
Nancy MacLean, Ph.D., Professor of History and African American Studies; Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities, and Interim Director of Latina and Latino Studies, Northwestern University
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Categories: Education • History • United States history
Wednesday November 18, 2009, 11:06 AM
Consumer Electronics
Rich Warren, Host of The Midnight Special on WFMT and WILL
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Categories: Consumer issues
Thursday November 19, 2009, 10:06 AM
Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWS, MIAS, and the Unending Vietnam War
Michael J. Allen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
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Categories: History • Military
Thursday November 19, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Reconstruction of American Journalism: A Report from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism
Michael Schudson, Ph.D., Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
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Categories: Media and journalism
Friday November 20, 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
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Categories: Personal Finance
Friday November 20, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Media, Race and Policing in the United States
Robert Lombardo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Member of Graduate Faculty, LoyolaUniversity of Chicago
N. Donald Wycliff, B.A., Distinguished Journalist in Residence
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Categories: Criminal Justice • Media and journalism • Police • Race/Ethnicity
Monday November 23, 2009, 10:06 AM
Bringing Civil Rights Era Cold Cases to Light
Jerry Mitchell, M.A., Award-winning Investigative Reporter, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Mississippi, and 2009 MacArthur Awardee
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Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • History • United States history • Justice • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Monday November 23, 2009, 11:06 AM
Women's Health
Suzanne Trupin, M.D., Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Women's Health Practice, Champaign, Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois
Categories: Health
Tuesday November 24, 2009, 10:06 AM
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities
Michael S. McPherson, Ph.D., President, Spencer Foundation and Former President, Macalester College
Matthew M. Chingos, Doctoral Student in the Department of Government, Harvard University; Research Associate at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Categories: Education
Tuesday November 24, 2009, 11:06 AM
The Pew Charitable Trusts' Safe Credit Cards Project
Nick Bourke, Manager of the Safe Credit Cards Project at The Pew Charitable Trusts
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Categories: Business and Economy • Consumer issues • Finance • credit
Wednesday November 25, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Selected Works of TS Spivet
Reif Larsen, Novelist
This is a repeat broadcast from Wednesday, September 09, 2009, 10 am
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Wednesday November 25, 2009, 11:06 AM
Woodsburner
John Pipkin, Novelist
This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, August 17, 2009, 11 am
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Thursday November 26, 2009, 10:06 AM
Special Live Broadcast:: Turkey Confidential
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Thursday November 26, 2009, 11:06 AM
Special Live Broadcast:: Turkey Confidential
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Friday November 27, 2009, 10:06 AM
Special: Third Coast Audio Festival
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Friday November 27, 2009, 11:06 AM
Special: Third Coast Audio Festival
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Monday November 30, 2009, 10:06 AM
Social Isolation and New Technology: How the internet and mobile phones impact Americans’ social networks
Keith N. Hampton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Categories: Communication • Social Networking • Relationships • Technology • Internet
Monday November 30, 2009, 11:06 AM
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
James McManus, Poker Player and Writer covering poker for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, ESPN.com
Categories: Entertainment
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