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A2 SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2001 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR WWW.INDYSTAR.COM nn KIR READ A digest devoted to getting you up to speed on the day's news John Strauss How to reach us Main office 444-4000 Main office (toll-free) 1-800-669-7827 Circulation 444-4444 SPORTS CEOS 2000: MM ROTATE A daily fact about Indiana's population. fill I i 'Doc' kept his promise to help moms, babies 444-6019 444-6000 444-6170 624-4636 444-6496 444-6198 444-6644 444-7171 444-4444 Business City desk Editorials Irrfoline Library Photo Sports Buy ads Classified Other 15 About 15 percent of Indiana's 196,013 vacant housing units counted in the 2000 census were for sale at the time. About 33 percent were for rent. 52 For 33 rent -Vr AVI NASCAR expansion hits Chicago Joliet, III. Chicagoland Speedway, site of today's inaugural Tropicana 400 NASCAR Winston Cup race, is the latest shining example of NASCAR growing while stubbornly trying to cling to its Southern roots.

A migration north and west began with New Hampshire International Speedway in 1993 and has continued since with an average of one new market a year. "You're either moving ahead or you're falling behind. You can't sit still." said driver Kyle Petty. "You have to keep building on what you have." Page CI De Ferran wins CART pole ex Source: U.S. Census Bureau Eric Yancy grew up with segregation in the South 40 years ago.

But the everyday indignities made him stronger, and a visit to a doctor's office set him on the path he walks today. He was black. It was 1960 in Baton Rouge, and "segregation was everywhere," he said. WORLD File Photo iiwniiwii.il I Toronto Gil de Ferran (pictured) got his first pole of the Championship Auto Racing Teams season, edging Penske Racing teammate Helio Castroneves in qualifying for the Molson Indv. De Ferran turned a Yancy loves movies today, but remembers there were "white" theaters and one rundown black movie house with rats in the aisles and roaches on the seats.

There were few black physicians. One day, on a visit to the doctor, he noticed a woman with an infant join them in the waiting room. Hour after hour, she waited, because this Eric Yancy Centrists tugging party toward middle The Democratic Leadership Council meets this week in Indianapolis for what's being called a "national conversation." The event will draw party celebs, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (left), as well as more than 600 Democrats from across the nation. But some believe that instead of a conversation, a hardhitting discussion about the future health of the Democratic Party needs to occur.

Page A1 IPL criticized for response to failures William and Patricia Attebuiy last summer had to deal with Ameritech after their phone service was disrupted. Last week, the couple wrestled with Indianapolis Power Light spending more than three days without power after a storm knocked out electricity. IPL says it did the best it could. The Atteburys and about 65,000 others who were left without power question that characterization. Page B1 State launches aspiring astronauts Perhaps it is the clear, star-studded nights that inspire so many in Indiana to explore outer space.

Whatever the reason, more than two dozen people with ties to the state have rocketed into the skies, beginning with the historic journey of Hoosier hero Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom 40 years ago. Page A1 Hundreds pay tribute to fallen officer Martinsville Saturday's funeral for Morgan Counly sheriffs Sgt. Daniel Starnes brought the strongest of men to their emotional knees. More than 175 police officers from 50 departments came to Martinsville to pay tribute to one of their own, who died nearly a month after being shot in the line of duty.

More than 1,000 mourners offered condolences during services at Martinsville High School. Page B1 A 2nd septuplet breathing on its own Washington The Georgetown University Hospital septuplets continued to improve Saturday, and a second of the tiny infants was taken off its ventilator. All seven were put under photo therapy lights to treat jaundice, a common condition in newborns. The parents, who are from northern Virginia, visited with their new family on Saturday. Page A3 Space crews set to attach passageway Cape Canaveral, Fla.

With a successful dress rehearsal behind them, astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis and the international space station geared up Saturday for the big event: the attachment of a $164 million passageway for spacewalkers. Shuttle astronauts Michael Gernhardt and James Reilty II planned to spend seven hours out in the vacuum of space, helping to install the air lock on space station Alpha. Page A12 China convicts U.S. scholar of spying Beijing China convicted a U.S. business professor on Saturday of spying for Taiwan and ordered him expelled.

Li Shaomin, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China and taught in Hong Kong, had been held since Feb. 25. The decision, reached one day after Beijing won international prestige by being named host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, resolves one of the cases that has caused tensions between China and the U.S. Page A17 Britain, Ireland to write plan for IRA Weston-Under-Lizard, England The British and "Irish governments promised to draw up a proposal for saving Northern Ireland's Protestant-Catholic government after marathon negotiations ended Saturday with no commitment on Irish Republican Army disarmament.

The IRA is in now in the driver's seat. Page A18 Pakistan president urges peace New Delhi, India Pakistan's president urged India to resolve the dispute on Kashmir, but the nations' summit got off to an inauspicious start Saturday when forces exchanged gunfire across their tense border for the first time in six months. But Kashmir did not appear to figure high in Gen. Pervez Musharraf brief talks with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Page A22 Reader representative: To reach Ted E.

Daniels, The Star's associate editor for reader relations, call 1-317- 444-6265, e-mail ted.daniels indystar.com, or write to 307 N. Pennsylvania Indianapolis, Ind. 46204. Story updates For the latest updates throughout the day: www.indystar.com Whom to call If you have any questions or comments, contact one of these editors: NationalForeign Editor Brett Halbleib from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

at 1-317-444-6245, brett.halbleib indystar.com Weekend Editor: Scott Thien from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. at 1-317-444-6912, scott.thien indystar.com Assistant Managing Editor for Design: Channon Seifert at 1-317-444-6363, channon.seifert indystar.com They said it 'We've always prided ourselves on plant safety." Ron Potier, engineer at a chemical plant in Riverview, where three workers were killed in an explosion and fire on Saturday. (Story on A4) Chuckle We pass this way but once unless, of course, you're following your spouse's directions. Prayer Loving God, help us to share your love with others so that all are included in your blessings.

Amen. lap of 109.492mph for his 12th career pole. Page CI North wins high school football game The North snapped the South's four-game winning streak with a 21-15 victory in the 35th BiometIFCA North-South Indiana High School All-Star football game at North Central High School. South quarterbacks Mike Rhine-hart (Homestead), Brett Rhatigan (Lafayette Jefferson) and Eric Moore (Penn) combined for 253 yards passing and two touchdowns. Page C3 Fever lose to Charlotte Charlotte, N.C.

Allison Feaster scored 17 points and made four 3-pointers while leading the Charlotte Sting to a 71-58 victory over the Indiana Fever. Nadlne Malcolm had 17 points and was the only player to score in double figures for Indiana (6-13). The league takes a three-day break for the WNBA All-Star game on Monday in Orlando, Fla. The Fever's Rita Williams is on the Eastern Conference team. Page C9 Frenchman wins Tour de France stage Colmar, France Laurent Jalabert knows what it's like to be a French rider who wins the Tour de France's daily stage on July 14, the national holiday.

"It's formidable, magnificent," he said, after coasting over the line an easy winner by 11 seconds on Saturday after he broke away from three other riders seven kilometers (4.3 miles) from the end. Jalabert's victory was spoiled when a man plowed his car into a crowd at the finish line after he had been stopped from meeting the stage winner. Four people were injured. Page C11 National League San Diego 8, Houston 6 Major League Baseball Interleague Flay was the only black doctor in their part of town. Finally, unable to get an appointment, she gave up.

The 7-year-old Yancy was crushed. Was the infant OK? Why couldn't the mother get in? He made a derision that day. "I said, 'When I grow up I'm going to be a doctor to take care of He stuck to it. Friends called him "doc" In high school. And now Yancy, with an office at 18th Street and Capitol Avenue near Methodist Hospital, is one of a handful of black pediatricians in Indianapolis and one of the very few baby doctors in private practice south of 38th Street.

"I'm down here because this is what my neighborhood was like and this is what I always wanted to do." Yancy, 48, and his wife, Pamela, have a son in college. They have a daughter in TV news and another who's an actress. He's a deacon and in the choir for New Bethel Baptist Church. He's an assistant Scoutmaster and sings at weddings and funerals, even writing some of his own songs. He's also, in an age of self-promoting public figures, a simple man trying to do the right thing.

Early hardship in life makes revolutionaries of some, philosophers of others. Yancy came out of it a deeply religious man determined to help children. He sees them and remembers how he was: "I really want kids to know they can do things. "If the kids see me as something that they could be, then maybe they will see there is something out there for them." He urges them to think about medicine. It won't be easy, he says.

Yancy learned one of the biggest lessons of his life from a test in medical school. He hadn't studied for it. but. always a devout Christian, he prayed for help and flunked. There's a test in life every day in some neighborhoods.

And Yancy says the key to making it comes from the message God had for him that day in medical school: "The Lord will help you, but you're never going to get anything you didn't work for." Now he has a busy life of long days filled with hospital rounds and office visits. Some of the pay comes in smiles. "You go out shopping, and little kids see you and run up to you. "They hug you, and that feels very good." John Strauss and Greg "Herman" Dawson will be hosts of the First Day program today on WIBC-AM (1070) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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In the past decade, say Mays and others in local business circles, black-owned companies merely treaded water, neither gaining nor losing ground. Perennial problems: lack of capital and a perception by blacks that business isn't necessarily cool. Page E1 CORRECTIDMS CLARIFICATIONS Online obituaries: Obituaries are available online for seven days after they are published in TJie Star. Click on Print Edition. Latest news: IndyStar.Com is updated throughout the day.

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"I really want this to be shocking and edgier," Spears, 19, told television critics Friday. This show will be an event. It's going to be to the next level as far as stunts." The show will include Spears in a duet with her Idol Cher on The Beat Goes on, the old Sonny Bono and Cher hit. A year older Actor Jan-Michael Vincent is 57. Singer Linda Ronstadt is 55.

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