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...Sky's the Limit
Sitting in his small office on the second floor of the Littauer building, Mansfield looks out his window at the gray sky, his head resting on the back of his left hand...
Baghdad nights are full of menace. The smoke of looted, burning buildings turns the sunset blood orange. Once darkness falls, tracer fire arcs across the sky like red fireworks. It's dazzling but dangerous. One recent salvo came down on a gasoline tanker, setting off an explosion that killed a man and injured several others...
...imagine people bumping into each other as they look up and stare at the pattern above them rather than pay attention to where they’re going. From the river, the outline of the bridge and low-rise dramatically frames a trapezoidal-shaped piece of the sky...
This year the stargazers will have more than ever to shoot. Lunar eclipses will occur on May 16 and Nov. 9. And in August, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in at least 50,000 years. Amateur astronomers, already drunk on the sky, are likely to get giddier still. "There's a mind-stretching aspect to it," says Berman. "You look through a telescope and don't have to say a thing." The sky, as always, is perfectly capable of speaking for itself. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Nancy Harbert/Fort Davis, Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral...