News

• Japanese Garden features colorful chrysanthemus
  Walking through the gate and into the Japanese Garden is like stepping into another world, a world that, on Nov. 2, was overrun by Chrysanthemums.

• File sharing battle continues
  Napster was once a mighty bastion of free downloads. After its fall, Napster disappeared into the judicial abyss. It has now been resurrected into the realm of prepaid cards.

• Groups' pro-abstinence posters defaced, stolen
  Posters on campus promoting sex after marriage were defaced and stolen last week by vandals with clashing views.

• Fire devastation weighs on CSULB students
  With more than 743,000 acres burned, 22 lives lost, thousands of people evacuated from their homes, and more than 3,570 houses burned to the ground, it is easy to see why so many people have been affected by the Southern California fires.

• Bush comforts Southern California
  ALPINE, Calif. (AP) -- President Bush on Tuesday walked the remnants of a Southern California community devastated by wildfire, comforting residents he said were resilient despite being "crushed by the material loss."

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Opinion

• Our View: Quick fix for our budget woes
  We've found our miracle cure for California's deficit, or apparently Schwarzenegger has. To think it was right in front of us this whole time and we never even saw it.

• Environmentalists create fiery climate in California
  In an effort to decrease a wildfire's ability to spread President Bush responded to the fires devastating Oregon in 2002 by proposing the Healthy Forest Initiative.

• Letters to the editor

Diversions

• Breakout season falls short for 49ers
  One victory, one goal, one point is what prevented the Long Beach State women's soccer team from playing in their first ever Big West Conference tournament.

• Make or break games upcoming for water polo
  After five years as men's water polo head coach, Rick Azevedo has had good teams, probably even great teams, but has been unable to get over the hump of great competition in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.