• And that includes zebras -- the horse's exotic equine cousin, which for centuries has roamed the African plains unsaddled.

    CNN: Legendary 'zebra whisperer' who tames Queen's horses

  • The program involved a retirement plan known as a 403(b), which is a public-sector cousin of the 401(k).

    FORBES: Spitzer's Painful Lesson

  • Well over a hundred giant tortoises live on Cousin, some of which have reached truly enormous sizes, measuring more than a metre long and weighing in excess of 350kg.

    BBC: The perfect trip: The Seychelles

  • Tablet PCs, which have thus far outlived their doomed consumer cousin, the Smart Display, were originally heralded as featherweight slate computers intended to expand the notebook market.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Time to write off pen computing

  • It recently released Tide Basic, which costs around a fifth less than its more upmarket cousin.

    ECONOMIST: Consumer goods in the recession

  • And Robert Perisic does his best to reveal them to us in all their jumpiness, their longings, their aspirations and desires, all against the backdrop of the recent war in Iraq, which we hear about in the doctored reports coming from cousin Boris.

    NPR: Book Review: 'Our Man In Iraq'

  • The iPad mini, like its newborn larger cousin, also has the new Lightning connector, for which there is just a puddle of compatible accessories compared to the sea of options that featured its 30-pin predecessor.

    ENGADGET: Switched On: Tablets and tradeoffs

  • Revlimid is the chemical cousin and heir to Celgene's first drug, Thalomid, which is still probably better known by its generic name, thalidomide.

    FORBES: Inside Medicine

  • Celeriac is cousin to anise, carrots, parsley and parsnips, some of which are bred for their edible stalks and tops, others for their edible roots.

    NPR: The Vegetable World's Ugly Duckling: Celeriac

  • The scenes in which Charu, the wife (Madhabi Mukherjee), and Amal, the cousin (Soumitra Chatterjee), sublimate their passion through literature have a comic-romantic charm: their proper sensibilities prevent them from ever admitting their feelings, let alone consummating them physically.

    NEWYORKER: Charulata

  • The irony is, of course, that Mexico has traditionally been a younger and poorer cousin of the giant to its north, the United States, which has repeatedly declined to establish legislation of anything like this strength, citing impacts on economic growth.

    BBC: Inside Mexico's climate revolution

  • Part of what drives the mania, of course, is the culture of List-ification which has become so comically pervasive ranking the 20 Greatest Players is a cousin to 15 Sedentary Weight Loss Secrets, 81 Restaurants To Eat At Before You Perish of Botulism, 10 Cats That Look Exactly Like Daniel Craig.

    WSJ: Does Jordan Need to Be No. 1?

  • In 1993 he was installed, ironically, as head of its chemical division (the paper side, which contributed 90% to Ballarpur's revenues and 80% to net profits, was under cousin Vikram's charge).

    FORBES: The Nephew Who Came in From the Cold

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