They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors, so they had closed it off with sheets of rusty corrugated metal, and there, at four long wooden tables beneath a string of light bulbs which dangled from a second-story clostra-block window, they served up to thirty customers per night, if the turnover was fast.

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Light touches, such as resting your finger against an unused string, can trigger a note that'd otherwise be considered a mute.

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He was accompanied by a band, an elaborate string section, several back-up singers, a DJ, fog and a highly choreographed light show.

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She takes one jade bangle, a light piece clearly designed for a woman quite slim of wrist, and dangles it from a string.

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The resulting splatter of light is recorded by a camera and converted into a 2, 400-bit key, or a string of 2, 400 zeros and ones.

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