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The improvement of the Chatsworth players around Arenas has been startling compared to last year.

There was also a magnitude 4.7 on Sept. 12 — startling enough that the city’s mayor and his wife dove under their kitchen table.

Those are the startling claims being made by a US company that said on Tuesday it had created mice with "mammoth-like traits".

“The unexpected action startled the horse, resulting in the juvenile being thrown off.”

Even with its reputation, he was startled by the extreme level of control.