Weird juxtaposition: Jill Abramson and female lab critters

NYT's executive editor Jill Abramson was fired yesterday. Here's how the Times tells the story today. If you saw it on the print paper this morning, you probably noticed the weird juxtaposition on its front page. Since I read David Hand's wonderful The Improbability Principle I know that strange coincidences do happen more often than we think, but still...

UPDATE: It seems that I'm not the only one who noticed the juxtaposition.