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...ever seen “The Butterfly Effect?” With Ashton Kutcher? Yeah, me neither. That’s because when I went to see “The Butterfly Effect” with two friends my junior year in high school, we accidentally went an hour early. So to kill time, we went to Petsmart to look at dogs, and ended up purchasing a male Siberian dwarf hamster we named Diva.Diva led a short but action-packed life as he was passed covertly from house to house. When I found one of his other owners feeding...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cat Lady in Training | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...costs of hiring two BAT officers for a 4-hour-long event come out to $144. The cost of hiring a single officer for the same amount of time is an additional $182.16. Taken together, these precautions cost $326.16. While the Student Life and Activities office, headed by Dean Kidd, provides up to 16 hours of BAT service to House committees per semester, no similar offers are known to extend to other student organizations...

Author: By S. JESSE Zwick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game Over? | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...arid region is at its most vulnerable for wildfires. The effect is analogous to a match striking sandpaper. The cause of most of this week's fires are unknown, although a downed power line may be responsible for at least one. Winds up to 70 miles an hour blew over San Diego on Sunday night, and residents awoke the next morning to find much of their county ablaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: San Diego's Inferno: Relief Ahead? | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

They helped Leo, their friend's father, fight the fire for an hour and a half, using hoses. Then, when things seemed to be damped down, the friends helped Leo drive out two of his three expensive cars to safety in Del Mar. On the way back out, they could see the wind gusts kicking up the embers, which were blowing everywhere. As they were leaving the canyon area, they saw another house go up in flames. "The fire was fully blazing," says Gudim. "Every window of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing the Santa Ana | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...back outside and saw flames coming down the hillside. The wind was blowing at least 50 miles an hour. We got the dog in the car. I went back into the house a third time. I heard popping and saw palm trees in the street bursting into flames. Embers were falling and setting bushes and trees on fire. I said to myself, I can't [stay here]. A tree might fall on the car and trap everybody. So I slammed the door and ran to the car. I got hit by a hailstorm of flaming embers. They burned my arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergency Evacuation at Dawn | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

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