This cultural heritage, associated to the development of quality education, is a pillar of peace building and society in Mali.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

After all, the talented engineers who work in the pillar companies are quite comfortable with the idea of maintaining their previous commuting patterns by working in a start-up near the pillar company while building a new company with their former colleagues.

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Another bizarre feature of the pagoda is that, because the building tapers, with each successive square floor-plan being smaller than the one below, none of the vertical pillars that carry the weight of the building is connected to its corresponding pillar above.

ECONOMIST: AN ENGINEERING MYSTERY

The third pillar of our strategy is building a constructive relationship with China.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

Even more to the point, Times executives have made building up digital circulation revenues the central pillar of their strategy.

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In other words, a five-storey pagoda contains not even one pillar that travels right up through the building to carry the structural loads from the top to the bottom.

ECONOMIST: AN ENGINEERING MYSTERY

Its transparent grid defers to the pillar-and-architrave opacity of the ancient stone building without mimicking it.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

Syrian state television, meanwhile, broadcast images early Monday showing a damaged police car in Damascus and a pillar with a missing chunk of concrete outside the Central Bank of Syria building, also in the capital.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The building was a pharmacy when the bottle was hidden in the brickwork inside the hollow wooden pillar.

BBC: Curson Lodge bottle/time capsule