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February 2001
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 THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 1ST
EXPERT ADVICE
"According
to a new study by the International Committee of Commonwealth Radio Producers,
listening to Extension 720 may significantly improve high school grades
and could cure male pattern baldness." Expert sources have identified
a massive growth in the expert business. However according to experts
JOHN STAUBER and SHELDON RAMPTON authors of  TRUST
US WE'RE EXPERTS: HOW INDUSTRY MANIPULATES SCIENCE AND GAMBLES WITH YOUR
FUTURE most are far from objective and many are spectacularly ill
informed. Tune in tonight for another I.C.C.R.P. recommended edition of
Extension720 as we debunk the talking heads and paid-for-pundits
FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 2ND
THE MONEY-GO-ROUND
What’s
angry, brown and after your money? The answer of course is the current
bear market. Now that the techno-bubble has burst how can the prudent
investor profit, and what should be done if President Bush and Alan Greenspan
fail to revive the mordant economy? Tune in tonight as our expert panel
of investment experts, including BILL HUMMER of Wayne Hummer Investements,
take a long hard look at the market and point out the spots of monetary
honey left by the bear.
 MONDAY
FEB 5TH
A MODERN PLAGUE
In 1984 it was proved that HIV causes AIDS. 15 years hence and we
remain no nearer to discovering a vaccine, yet millions continue to be
infected and die from the ravages of this terrible illness. Tonight Milt
is joined by JON COHEN, author of  SHOTS
IN THE DARK: THE WAYWARD SEARCH FOR AN AIDS VACCINE and Dr STEVEN
WOLINSKY Director of The Great Lakes Regional Center for AIDS Research,
as they and other expert guests discuss the state of research into this
horrid disease.
TUESDAY
FEB 6TH
EXTENSION 720 IS PREEMPTED BY AN 8.30PM NORTHWESTERN
BASKETBALL GAME
 WEDNESDAY
FEB 7TH
RACE IN AMERICA
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,"
WEB Du Bois’ words, written in 1903, still ring true nearly a century
later. Tonight we examine race and the social problems relating to race
in America; everything from the debate over the structure of welfare to
the media’s influence upon black American culture. Taking part in the
evening’s discussion will be Professor THOMAS C HOLT author of the new
book  THE
PROBLEM OF RACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Professor HEATHER DALMAGE and Professor
CEDRIC HERRING.
 THURSDAY
FEB 8TH
THE MATTER OF MATTER
More famous than Fermat’s last theorem, more fun than the quadratic
equation, the formula E=MC2 is certainly the best known bit
of algebra on the planet, but what does it mean and how was this devastating
result derived? Historian of ideas and science writer DAVID BODANIS, joins
Milt and a suitably qualified panel as we look at the evolution of modern
physics. Bodanis' new book  E=MC2
THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN EQUATION traces the evolution of the equation
that has enabled us to better understand the fabric of the universe and,
incidentally, to level the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 FRIDAY
FEB 9TH
BETWEEN A KISS AND A SIGH
We’ll be crying into our martini’s as we take a look at the musical
history of the crooner. So quiet at the bar as Milt talks to celebrated
music journalist GARY GIDDENS author of the new book BING
CROSBY: A POCKET FULL OF DREAMS about this great American musical
form, and the musicians who were instrumental in its development.
MONDAY
FEBRUARY 12TH
LINCOLN’S
LEGACY
The
life, times and legacy of President Lincoln form the substance of tonight’s
discussion as we celebrate his birthday in the company of an expert panel,
including Professor STEVEN HAHN, Dr DREW VANDECREEK and Professor MICHAEL
PERMAN. Listeners may find out more about Lincoln by visiting the archive
maintained by Drew Vandecreek at http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 13TH
THE FEATURES SECTION
We
welcome the combined talents of Tribune stalwarts Jon Anderson
and Ron Grossman as well as Sun-Times Sunday Editor Tom MacNamee,
as we discuss the life and work of the features writer.
 WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 14TH
AFFAIRS OF THE HEART
On this valentines day evening Milt talks, in recorded interviews,
with two best-selling writers GAIL GODWIN author of HEART:
A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH ITS MYTHS AND MEANINGS and JOANNA TROLLOPE
author most recently of MARYING
THE MISTRESS. Both authors deal with matters of the heart, Godwin, looking
at the heart as symbol in our romantic, religious and cultural life, and
Trollope discussing how she has wrought numerous fine novels out of the
personal entanglements of characters in small, familiar domestic settings.
Trollope, interestingly, is a distant relative of the 19th
century English novelist Anthony Trollope whose work will be discussed
later in the month.
THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 15TH
SEX
IN AMERICA
Milt welcomes
the authors of the book that's got everyone counting, Professors Edward
O Laumann and Robert T Michael.  Sex,
Love, and Health in America: Private Choices and Public Policies,
contains a fresh analysis of data collected in the National Health and
Social Life Survey, the nation's most comprehensive survey on sexuality.
 FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 16TH
REINVENTING BOSWELL
Regarded by many merely as Dr Johnson’s shadow, recent scholarship
has cast James Boswell in a rather different light. Johnsonian scholars,
PETER MARTIN author of the major new revisionist biography JAMES
BOSWELL and professor LARRY LIPKING, join tonight’s show as we talk
about the adventures and rakish misadventures of Messrs Boswell and Johnson
tonight on Extension720
MONDAY
FEBRUARY 19TH
REP-SPORT-AGE
One of the great sports journalists, DICK SCHAAP chats to Milt about
his new book FLASHING
BEFORE MY EYES: 50 YEARS OF HEADLINES, DEADLINES AND PUNCHLINES.
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 20TH
ELIOT,
DICKENS AND TROLLOPE
Evidently
George Eliot obtained her wish to join‘…the choir invisible of those immortal
dead..’, for there are few other writers of the 19th century
of equivalent reputation. Tonight we visit with the immortals we discuss
in the company of an expert panel, including professor WILLIAM BAKER,
the life times and work of three of the periods greatest writers: George
Eliot, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope.
WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 21ST
A
NIGHT AT THE SYMPHONY
We
go behind the scenes at the Symphony as we welcome musicians from the
CSO to talk about this internationally renown Chicago institution. With
a polite reminder to turn off your cell phone, pager and watch alarm,
we broadcast live from studio A sharp in a conversation illustrated by
excerpts from CSO performances.
 THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 22ND
SHATTERING SHIBBOLETHS
'Most social problems are economic problems', 'White racism is the
cause of black and Hispanic social problems', 'only government can effectively
ameliorate social problems'. According to tonight's guest HEATHER MACDONALD,
author of the new book THE
BURDEN OF BAD IDEAS: HOW MODERN INTELLECTUALS MISSHAPE OUR SOCIETY,
radical ideas of this sort have wrought great damage upon the fabric of
American society and counter intuitively have been particularly harmful
to its least advantaged members. Tune in tonight as social critic MacDonald
sets America's intellectual establishment back on the right course, tonight
on Extension720
 FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 23RD
BATTLEFIELDS EARTH
Tonight
Milt is joined in studio by three military historians, Colonel John Votaw,
Professor John Lynn and Professor Paul Kern author of  Ancient
Siege Warfare, as we look at great battles through history and
the men who fought them
MONDAY
FEBRUARY 26TH
THE CHINA THREAT
Bill Gertz
the Washington Times Defense correspondent and bestselling author of  Betrayal:
How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security, joins
Milt to talk about his new book   The
China Threat: How the People's Republic Targets America. (The
show featuring Warren Christopher and George McGovern has been rescheduled
for Thursday, March 1.)
TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 27TH
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WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 28TH
THE
USE AND ABUSE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Tune
in as Milt and guests try once again to cure the culture of maledictions
grammatical, and syntactical. Academics addicted to passive verbs, talk
show hosts with the ‘like’ syndrome and even those poor souls suffering
the ‘affect’ of a little linguistic dizziness will all visit tonight’s
language clinic as our expert panelists including ELLEN HUNT and SUSAN
HARRIS diagnose the problems and administer suitable remedies. Extension720
listings writers will be immediately rushed to intensive care where they
probably won’t recover.
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