Highlighting Current Category in the Archive and Feeds page

Seems that the function outputs the current category with a special class name by default.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories#Markup_and_Styling_of_Category_Lists

In your CSS you should be able to just do:

li.current-cat { ... }

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