Why can't I decrease the line-height of this text?

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Published on 2012-10-12T03:28:15Z Indexed on 2012/10/12 3:37 UTC
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http://jsfiddle.net/mJxn4/

This is very odd: I have a few lines of text wrapped in an <em> tag. No matter what I do, lowering the value for line-height below 17px has no effect. I can bump the line-height up to greater than 17px and it'll apply, but I can't get it lower than 17px.

The CSS in question is:

#others .item em {
    font-size: 13px;
    line-height: 17px;
}

Try adjusting the line height both higher and lower and run the updated fiddle after each change, and you'll see what I mean.

Why would this be? No line-height is specified anywhere else in the CSS, so nothing is overriding it. That couldn't be the case anyway because I'm adjusting the line-height up and down within the same selector, so it doesn't make sense that a higher value would apply, but a lower value would get overridden.

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