You won't accept all of what Stossel says, particularly about first cousins marrying first cousins, but most of his findings are irrefutable.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the first black woman to run a New York state legislative conference, argues that corruption is cyclical, not racial.

WSJ: Fed probe in NY legislature raises race question

Two years ago another Harvard researcher, Tanya Smith, found that by the time we first faced our beetle-browed cousins, their childhoods were not only briefer than ours, they were shrinking possibly an evolutionary "effort" to continue the species by getting to childbearing age sooner.

WSJ: Neanderthals: Why Us and Not Them?

Ms Moggach's grandmother, who lost her husband, her only brother and 11 cousins in the slaughtering fields of the first world war, was the inspiration for this cleverly written tale of domestic intrigue in the sooty streets of Southwark, a working-class district of London just south of the Thames, as the war draws to its close.

ECONOMIST: New novel

But the 1980s star had different first memories of the artist, who he first saw in Cookham while playing there with his four cousins.

BBC: Adam Ant: 'Stanley Spencer inspired me to pursue art'

On the first day of the defence case Mick Philpott told the court that Amanda Cousins, the sister of Ms Willis, had threatened to kill his wife and their children after the Philpotts had turned up at her home.

BBC: Mick Philpott

That bottom-dwelling, budget tier, first announced at this past Mobile World Congress, has already seen a couple of category cousins come out into the open (see: Vodafone's G 300 and T-Mobile's G 312), so color us unsurprised to find yet another single-core, Googlefied device crop up at the FCC.

ENGADGET: Huawei Ascend G 302D goes public in FCC docs Mobile

These refugees tended to be English-speaking professionals or students. (Their less-educated compatriots were inclined to head for factories or building sites in Germany.) At first their numbers were not great, but when war broke out in Kosovo last February, sisters, cousins and others with family already established in Britain began to arrive.

ECONOMIST: Asylum