August 2003
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NOTE TO LISTENERS: As the pennant race continues, August is the
heaviest month for Cubs baseball. On nights when there are evening
ball games, a recorded edition of Extension 720 may follow the
game, but we will also be doing some live programs. Check back
to wgnradio.com for updates.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 1ST
THE HIDDEN DEPTHS OF THE GREAT LAKES
Tonight on Extension 720, we welcome noted nature writer JERRY
DENNIS, author of the new book 
The
Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas.
Dennis will be discussing some of the region’s great historical
events—including the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald—as
well as discussing the Great Lakes’ biological and ecological
importance.
MONDAY, AUGUST 4TH
THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM
Renowned author PHYLLIS CHESLER joins us tonight to discuss whether
anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe and the United States.
Chesler is author of the new book 
The
New Anti-Semitism: The Current Crisis and What We Must Do About
It. She will be joined by JOHNATHAN LEVINE, Midwest Regional
Director of the American Jewish Committee.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 5TH
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6TH
Extension 720 takes a seat on the bench on these nights as the
Cubs play 9:05 games.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7TH
MEDICAL MISTAKES
Are doctors making mistakes that cost people lives? Or are malpractice
suits far too frequent? Join us tonight as we discuss the state
of American medicine with ROSEMARY
GIBSON, co-author of the new book 
Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes That
Kill and Injure Millions of Americans. Also present will be
DR. STEPHEN SMALL, director of the Developing Center for Patient
Safety at the University of Chicago.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8TH
The Cubs pinch-hit for Extension 720 tonight with a west
coast game beginning at 9:10 p.m.
MONDAY,
AUGUST 11TH
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12TH
Tapes or a live program will follow these 7:05 Cubs games.
WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 13TH
PROJECT REALITY
Tonight on Extension 720, we welcome back the Evanston-based Project
Reality, a comprehensive program that promotes teen abstinence.
Joining us will be SCOTT PHELPS, DR. MARCELLA MEYER and some other
experts in this field by phone.
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 14TH
THE RETURN OF CHICAGO STYLE
The world’s premiere writing style guide the 
Chicago
Manual of Style, has just reappeared in its 15th edition.
Tonight on Extension 720, we will examine the evolution of this
famed tome, as well as explore how language itself has changed.
Joining us will be ANITA SAMEN, managing editor of the University
of Chicago Press, MARGARET MAHAN, editor of the newest edition
of the manual, and JOE WILLIAMS, emeritus professor of English
and Linguistics at the University of Chicago.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15TH
MENTAL HEALTH AS WE AGE
On August 17-22, the 11th International Congress of the
International Psychogeriatric Association will be meeting in Chicago.
Tonight on Extension 720, DR. SANDY FINKEL, chair of the International
Psychogeriatric Association's 11th International Congress, DR.
ALISTAIR BURNS, president of the International Psychogeriatric
Association, and DR. JACOBO MINTZER, chair of the scientific committee
will discuss the many mental health issues--including Alzheimer's
disease--that we face as both the body and the brain age.
MONDAY, AUGUST 18TH
CAPITALISM IN CRISIS
With
the shenanigans of Enron, WorldCom and Martha Stewart, American
big business has been in much trouble lately. Tonight on Extension
720, we explore what’s going wrong with capitalism today
and how it can be fixed. Joining us will be SHOSHANA ZUBOFF, co-author
of the new book 
The
Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and
the Next Episode of Capitalism, SAM PELTZMAN, Ralph and Dorothy
Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University
of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, and LUIGI ZINGALES,
Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
also at the University of Chicago's business school..
TUESDAY, AUGUST 19TH
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20TH
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21ST
The Cubs play at 7:05, but Extension 720 will immediately follow
with a taped interview or a live program. Be sure to tune in!
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 22ND
Extension 720 takes a seat on the bench tonight as the Cubs play
a game out west at 9:05 p.m.
MONDAY, AUGUST 25
THE EVOLUTION AND CURRENT CONDITION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Is the very term an oxymoron or can there be a real science of
politics? We are joined by three representatives of that discipline.
They are RICHARD MERELMAN, professor emeritus of political science
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of the new book
Pluralism
at Yale: The Culture of Political Science in America, IAN
HURD, professor of political science at Northwestern University
and THOMAS ENGEMAN, professor of political science at Loyola University.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 26TH
A
live program or a recorded edition of Extension 720 will follow
the 7:10 Cubs game tonight.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27TH
THE CLIFF AT THE END OF THE MIDDLE EAST ROAD MAP
The suicide bombing in Jerusalem on August 19 that killed
twenty people, the assassination of a Hamas leader and the death
of two Palestinian militants in a West Bank hospital have formed
a seemingly unsurmountable blockade on the road map to peace between
Israel and Palestine. Tonight we have two experts who will debate
this issue after the 6:10 Cubs game. They are DAVID ROET, deputy
consul general at the Midwest Consulate General of Israel in Chicago,
and GHADA HASHEM TALHAMI, professor of politics at Lake Forest
College.
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 28TH
After the 7:10 Cubs game, be sure to stay tuned for a live edition
or a recorded segment of Extension 720.
FRIDAY,
AUGUST 29TH
BATTLES!
Tune into Extension 720 tonight as we “cry ‘havoc,’
and let slip the dogs of war.” Historian JOHN LYNN, a professor
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joins us to
discuss his new book 
Battle:
A History of Combat and Culture from Ancient Greece to Modern
America, along with military strategist MAJOR JOHN SCHMITT.
Be sure to listen as we discuss military strategy and the evolution
of combat from the Greeks to today.
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