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  • Sales of Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' drop sharply

    12/16/2008 11:53:50 PM PST · by smokingfrog · 34 replies · 776+ views
    LA Times ^ | Dec. 13, 2008 | Randy Lewis
    The downfall of Soviet Communism took 70 years, but "Chinese Democracy" appears to be in jeopardy after just two weeks. The Guns N' Roses album that was 17 years in the making climbed only as high as No. 3 when it debuted on the national sales chart. It has tumbled to No. 18 in its second week of release.
  • Huge explosion rocks Tacoma

    10/06/2007 11:29:00 PM PDT · by skeptoid · 23 replies · 4,676+ views
    Seattle Post Intellingncer ^ | October 6, 2007 | HECTOR CASTRO, BRAD WONG AND KATHY MULADY
    A powerful explosion rocked Tacoma Saturday afternoon, sending four injured workers to the hospital, shooting a fireball hundreds of feet into the sky, shutting down highways and banning aircraft for a five-mile radius. The series of events leading to the explosion began as a tanker truck driver was loading propane into one of two stationary tanks at Atlas Castings & Technology. Two smaller explosions occurred, followed by a massive one that blew the truck apart, with the axel flying hundreds of feet in the air before