You can see the shadow of its perfect conic shape projected on the valley below at the break of dawn.

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This means that the lucky recipients are informed of their good fortune by a phone call at the break of dawn or, sometimes, in the middle of the night.

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In the '90s, Will Smith's summer anthem "Miami" described a never-ending spring break-like atmosphere, surpassing New York and Los Angeles as the place to "party in the city where the heat is on, all night on the beach 'til the break of dawn".

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Six times a week, thousands of local boys and girls sometimes together, more often separately gather in scores of village mosques across the district at the break of dawn, sitting through 90 minutes of math and Afghanistan's national languages of Pashtu and Dari.

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Then came the next big break: In the pre-dawn hours of Friday, a motorist was carjacked and taken hostage.

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But once the commercial potential of the Grid begins to dawn, standard-setting skirmishes will break out between companies and even countries.

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