But, by drilling a series of evenly spaced holes into the wire, Dr Lim has created a periodic structure with a band gap that blocks such light.

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In "I Am Sick of All This Too, " for example, the staccato riffing recalls the band's early experiments in structure, but also features a mantra-like vocal exercise a variation technique Spiers has developed on more recent albums.

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But a Spoon song is rarely about any one ingredient, words included, and "Case" serves as a prime example of how the band fits the pieces together to create a structure that might well collapse if any one of them were removed.

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So when KISS was being formed I read everything about the music business because at the same time I was learned how to play chords and play songs and play bass in a band, I was also learning the business, the structure, how it works and how things get done.

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The Pentagon feared the frequency structure being demanded by Brussels in the so-called Upper L Band between 1559 and 1591MHz could have prevented American commanders from degrading navigation data in the theatre of war to all but their own forces, as is possible at present.

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