Why Firefox keep showing a strange police cursive for certain sections of text on websites like Wikipedia?

For past month or two, when I consult Wikipedia a few other sites, sections of text are displayed in a large, cursive font. I can't find any rhyme or reason to what sections show this way. This isn't the case at all sites but there are a couple where I'm the see. This makes things really difficult to read. For a screenshot, see this file I put on YouSendIt , YouSendIt.

Such behavior is usually caused by another font that does not work and that Firefox replaces with the following font in the list. In this case, you can check the Arial Cursiva police.

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