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                                                                        The Cable Stayed Bridge

    A modern and increasingly effective variant on the suspension bridge is the cable-stayed bridge, in which the cables are anchored in the tower, rather than at the end.  The cables may be attached in a radial pattern, extending from several points on the deck to the top of the tower, or in a parallel pattern, in which they are attached to different points on the towers, in parallel patterns.  One of the more recent cable-stayed bridges was constructed over the Charles River in Boston. 

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The Yangpu Bridge in Shanghai, China, crossing the Huangpu River, is the third largest cable-stayed bridge in the world.  Together with its sister cable-stayed bridge, the Nanpu Bridge (on page 1), and the Oriental Pearl Tower, they are considerd two dragons playing with pearls.
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