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CNN needs to stop interrupting content

Pity the parser that ran over this story at CNN:
 
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/03/26/couple.lives.with.ex/index.html
 
Its common for news sites to run a simple parsing job over an article, to add extra links to help give backstory to an article, or to cross link to similar content. However, someone at CNN either needs to limit the number and the frequency of such links, or needs to do some gentle re-training if it was done by hand.

1, 2, 3, 4 cross links in 5 paragraphs?? Enough already! You got content....we get it.

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