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High above the smog-smothered skyscrapers, on the parapets of Chapultepec Castle, the bronze statues of six young soldiers strike a gallant pose. The teenage cadets revered by every Mexican as the ``Boy Heroes'' died defending the fortress against Yanquis in 1847. Every Sept. 13, the President of Mexico, his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps assemble at the Mexico City fortress to recall the defeat that led to el despojo territorial, what Mexicans consider the unjust seizure of their land that now makes up California, Texas, Arizona and New Mexico...
...wholesale privatization of American life may give conservatives goose pimples, but it also produces a kind of civic isolation. And Fortress America, ringed with gated communities and checkpoints and motion detectors, is a foreboding example of self-sufficiency. Says urban planner Oscar Newman: ``People who live in these communities tend not to participate very much in the affairs of the surrounding communities. I find that a little scary.'' Privatization is also a lot less liberating for the millions of Americans who can't afford their own private police, schools, street cleaners and country clubs...
...former clinic in downtown Reno was fire-bombed four times, Stutes acknowledges, "I was mad as hell -- and afraid." Today, he is still angry, but has less cause for fear: his new $1 million West End Women's Medical Group clinic, which opened in November, is a high-tech fortress with solid steel doors and magnetic locks, bullet-resistant windows, infrared motion detectors, panic buttons to summon police and a 70-ft. setback planted with thorn trees. Contractors experienced in prison and casino security designed the system, while some local SWAT-team police offered advice. "It's a bunker," Stutes...
...Fortress Mentality: A Nevada clinic is built like a bunker...
...much of a fortress does the White House have...