OK, I'll deal with it, but its strange.
If I have 9 feeds, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and specify 60 entries, I get 6, 6, 4, 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 12 items - total 49.
If I have the same 9 feeds in a different order, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, A and specify 60 entries, I get 6, 4, 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10 items - total 51.
If I have the same 9 feeds in the first order, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and specify 40 entries, I get 4, 4, 4, 1, 4, 3, 4, 4, 8 items - total 38.
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Now, my real problem is this: If I have a news feed search that sometimes has content, but not always, then the whole script hangs on loading when there are no items returned. The reason: I want to try to narrow the search down so it won;t return too much irrelevant junk, but still show content. (The whole news topic is atmospheric science - not weather, so I have to do multiple searches by keywords that are not always in the news.)
(Of course there is still the annoying problem that some feed dates don't show - error, as at http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/rss/rss.xml They must use some other date format.)
