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Levitt’s speech elicited diverse reactions from the audience. Diego Ibarra, a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Design, said he thought Levitt’s solutions for climate change presented moral problems because, he said, they would increase carbon emissions, which are the root cause of climate change...
...handstand on the top of the pyramid. Anthony Gatto, a showman with a plethora of panache, tosses and catches seven balls, seven hoops, an alley's worth of bowling pins; he's simply the best juggler ever. And in an act already used to sensational effect in Ka, Jimmy Ibarra and Carlos Marin Loaiza run inside and on top of the Wheel of Death, a pair of gigantic hamster wheels held by an outside steel belt. It must be tremendous fun to perform, if you don't mind risking both your lives and all your limbs...
...government passed legislation last summer that imposes stiffer penalties on those who foment racism within sports. But even this new law may not be enough to combat a larger problem. "The real issue is that Spaniards have a habit of not taking this kind of thing seriously," says Esteban Ibarra, president of the Movement against Intolerance, a watchdog group. "There's a banalization, a permissiveness in the face of racist incidents that worries me more than the incidents themselves. As long as society as a whole continues to see these crimes as insignificant, they're going to recur...
...There are signs that the dismissive attitude Ibarra fears is occurring in this case too. Spanish Formula One officials have taken pains to emphasize that only a few among the 55,000-person crowd participated in the insults ("Maybe ten," says a Circuit spokesperson, when asked how many were involved). And online comments left on Spanish websites that have published news of the abuse display a notable lack of concern. "The insults to Mr. Hamilton aren't racist because they aren't insulting him for being black, they insult him for being a Formula One driver [who is] giving...
...Grand Prix scheduled for Barcelona on April 27 hanging over it, Spanish officials in both sports and government are promising to take new steps to ensure racism doesn't make the same inroads into car racing that it has into soccer. "That's what we're missing," says Ibarra. "Firmness...