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(It uses that horrid layout with broken scrolling that the NYT popularized with its Snowfall story.)

How is the scrolling broken?

There's a fixed background image that fades as you scroll, fully disappearing approximately when the body text gets to the top. It's pretty annoying.

That's not broken scrolling. Broken scrolling is when you can't scroll the page correctly. That's shitty graphics :P