Archive for May 14th, 2003

css2 comes to the rescue

remember how sometimes you wish to put a colored border around all table cells so all of them have a border of one pixel? unfortunately, this can be aggravatingly difficult to achieve with the border properties in CSS. The first thing you’d be likely to try might be:
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oh romance

SARS can’t stop student’s nuptials (taken from here)
By Amir Efrati – The Daily Iowan

Love can transcend time, space – and a deadly respiratory disease.

Lin Wang stood in a courtyard outside his Hawkeye Court apartment Tuesday, his face covered by a white, rounded mask as images of his fiancée, Lei Lingyan, fluttered through his mind.

It was a dress rehearsal for May 18, when the 25-year-old will board a United flight to Shanghai en route to Leshan, where he will marry his sweetheart – the product of a two-year online romance – despite a chorus of objecting voices from family and friends in China who fear he might contract SARS. They think he’s nuts; Wang sees no other option.
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