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KC CURRENTS 2-5-07

By Ty Chandler, Alex Smith and Sylvia Maria Gross

Kansas City, MO – Kansas City Missouri's police chief responds to a widely-circulated video that shows two officers ignoring a woman's repeated pleas for medical help. Hear a Latino perspective on the candidates on the upcoming presidential election and Kenyan Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai comes home, in a sense, to Atchison, Kansas. Plus, a conversation with children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis.

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