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.max-lines {
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
  word-wrap: break-word;
  overflow: hidden;
  max-height: 3.6em;
  line-height: 1.8em;
}

/* where max-height: = line-height: × <number-of-lines> in em */
/* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3922739/limit-text-length-to-n-lines-using-css */