How to create an alternate title for a node when in a nodequeue?
I've used this css quite often in these cases:

width: // short width;
overflow: hidden;
white-space: nowrap;
text-overflow: ellipsis;


Which turns something like

A great new article about something so important that we have highlighted it for you


into

A great new article about som...


Obviously, this works best when the jist of the title is in the beginning of it :)