<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ba3a685a-0d53-46b4-8bfb-4a0792795055/25A1F345-110B-4B90-B3E3-9D5AB10B931A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA"><H1><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"></NYT_HEADLINE>Helping the Stars Take Back the Night </NYT_HEADLINE><//NYT_HEADLINE></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/8DF25D07-936A-4833-9CC0-1AAC27FA93DF" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA"> <P>ASTRONOMERS and others interested in a night sky unencumbered by the glare from artificial light love to tell this story: When the Northridge earthquake knocked out power in Los Angeles in 1994, numerous calls came into emergency centers and even the Griffith Observatory from people who had poured into the streets in the predawn hours. They had looked into the dark sky to see what some anxiously described as a “giant silvery cloud” over the shaken city.</p> <P>Not to worry, they were assured. It was merely the Milky Way, the vast galaxy that humans once knew so well — until the glare from electric light effectively erased most traces of it from urban and near-urban skies. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/E486B888-6673-476B-98E8-CA88ED5DDA24" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/business/31essay.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=technology&adxnnlx=1220209200-phsRjxms+McFk1oOF3ZdUA">Tucson passed laws restricting light pollution and emerged as the center of the so-called dark-sky movement. 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