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This is a hack to scale the .rank and .midcol elements consistently across the spotlight box and link listings. We don't know the maximum link score length until we get to the link listing, at which point we output a <style> tag to space things globally on the page. It's horribly ugly, but maybe not as ugly as the style tags and jQuery measurement hacks it replaces...
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