Why would the top two rows of my site load like this and the bottom row perfect?

Bottom Row:

HTML:
https://gist.github.com/1228291
CSS:
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It really depends on how you want to achieve vertical alignment. For instance, you could try something like:
But this would give you some whitespace between the title and price when the title is only one line.