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   News // Houston & Texas

                 5,000 join Human Race to make run at diversity

   TERESA TINGLE, Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle
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   As soon as Mayor Lee Brown sounded the gong at the second annual Human
   Race, more than 5,000 participants were off, including a 9-foot cowboy.

   Walking on stilts, Steve Miller, 34, went through most of the
   five-kilometer race wearing an oversized red cowboy hat and tan chaps.
   The KIPPS Academy science teacher made the race with his students, who
   quickly left him behind.

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   KIPPS Academy is one of nine beneficiaries of money raised in the
   noncompetitive race sponsored by Enron in conjunction with the
   Holocaust Museum Houston. KIPPS, a public charter school for grades
   5-9, received more than $10,000 last year, said director of development
   Laurie Bieber.

   Last year's race raised $40,000 from pledges, with an additional
   donation of $50,000 from the Holocaust Museum. Race coordinators expect
   this year's race will raise more.

   The purpose of the event, which included a wheelchair race and a
   one-kilometer race for children, was to bring together diverse cultures
   in the Houston area.

   "We're all here trying to be aware that we are all part of one race,
   the human race," said 12-year-old Katie Bernell of the Beth Israel
   Synagogue.

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   diversity," Enron Chairman Ken Lay said.

   The race began at The Park Shops at McKinney and wound through
   downtown, around Sam Houston Park and back down Dallas Street.

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       After the race, a festival of cultures filled The Park Shops.
       Booths with arts and crafts and face painting attracted children.
       Booths with food from different cultures attracted all ages, from
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       silver cones, represents each day of the year. Legend has it that
       an ill woman who dances in the dress will become well, Beene said.
       Money raised by the Human Race will be divided equally among the
       organizations. They are: AIDS Foundation Houston, Fifth Ward
       Enrichment Program, Communities in Schools, Child Advocates,