Unless you already happen to live beside a stunning mountain lake in Guatemala or inside a fairy-tale walled garden in Varanasi, you are far, far away, but your individual comforts and desires are still in familiar focus.

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Gunmen sprayed bullets at revellers after storming the party inside a walled garden in the city in Coahuila state, across the border from Texas.

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It will require a departure from the walled-garden mentality in which the operation of a static Web site or a network of disparate branded blogs has been the status quo.

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In its heyday, AOL was a walled garden similar to the Apple of today.

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There are certain Miraval-esque nuances, such as the seven-circuit labyrinth, which Root says was inspired by the cathedral at Chartres, in an area originally slated to be a walled outdoor garden.

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Charles Darwin was born in 1809 in The Mount, which overlooks Shrewsbury, and includes a walled garden, woodland and river.

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The same source said the attackers had pulled up at the venue of the birthday party in five 4x4s, smashing down a door to reach the walled garden where the party was being held.

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The test, in the end, ought to be whether the consumer benefits of a walled garden exceed the consumer costs.

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Ironically, in pushing for a greater adoption of web-based platforms like Firefox, Mozilla is pushing the idea of its own walled garden into extinction much in the same way that Netscape and AOL became less important with the spreading of an open internet and rise of individual online properties.

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