21.   Guzman stopped and looked back toward the front of his property, where only one day before his new two-story house had stood.

22.   He will bring his family from Albania and set up a tent where his house once stood.

23.   His house now stands empty, ripe papayas hanging unpicked in the trees and small dogs with huge ears sniffing around chunks of partly carved limestone.

24.   His ornate house still stands at the border of the campus.

25.   In front, the house stands on rust-colored steel columns with diagonal bracing embedded in a thick concrete foundation beam.

26.   In many communities of Umbria and Marche, the two regions hardest hit by the earthquakes, most houses are still standing.

27.   It took years, and many of them are still pounding out new sections, but some houses stand like beacons amid the remaining rubble.

28.   Last week, the new concrete foundation could be seen rising steeply out of the flat ground where the house once stood on its signature knoll.

29.   Not far from downtown, in a neighborhood of boarded-up houses, vacant lots and blight, a famous house still stands.

30.   Not a single house was standing.