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Chinese New Year without Fireworks?

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Jan 28, 2014
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Every year in China, the newspapers can be guaranteed to carry stories of exploding fireworks factories that leave workers dead or reeling around the sites, trying to find their ears. On Feb. 2, last year, a truckful exploded on an elevated expressway in Henan that was powerful enough to actually bring down a section of the road. In 2011, revelers manag…

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