juxtaposition

From the NYTimes:

Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, an American military spokesman in Baghdad, confirmed a report by the Pentagon on Tuesday that insurgents had put two children in the back seat of a car loaded with explosives to get the car through a checkpoint in Baghdad. An unknown number of Iraqi civilians were hurt or killed when the car exploded, including the children, Colonel Garver said.

Meanwhile, beneath a bright sky, thousands of residents of Baghdad celebrated the first day of spring, a holiday called Nowruz, by going to the zoo.