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Western Digital and Seagate beat heightened expectations in their most recent earnings prints.

They groomed themselves repeatedly and avoided open spaces, behaviors that typically indicate heightened anxiety in mice.

The creators have also heightened the terror with repetition.

All this heightens the stakes of California’s already delicate year-end dance between the Santa Ana winds — the strength and heat of which have turbocharged many a fire — and the arrival of the rainy season.

"The measure responds to the heightened risk of the disease entering Spain in the past week, given the number of outbreaks reported across Europe," the ministry said.