Word: cousin
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...sense that matters had been spiraling out of control. Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. Also called a civet cat, the small, furry mammal with big innocent-looking eyes is unrelated to real cats, being more of a first cousin to the mongoose. Nevertheless, it was as if China was sacrificing thousands of animals to ward off the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...
...Khan could have imagined. Khan's 21-year-old nephew Mohammad Jaffer Khan says his father?Khan's brother?never got over their separation and died heartbroken a few years back. Then, last year, the family quit their home in the valley after Indian shelling killed a cousin, blew in their windows and doors, and left their village of Chakoti a ravaged wasteland, where machine guns have raked every wall and shrapnel covers the ground. Jaffer says he hopes his father found peace in death. "We buried my father near the border," he says. "So the wind from his country...
...also has a family history of athleticism, as her father, Earl McCullouch, played seven seasons with the Detroit Lions and was the 1962 NFL Rookie of the Year. Her brother, Tyrone, played in the NFL for four years and her cousin is New England’s own defensive end Willie McGinest...
...Fella first bounced into Dash's mind when, at age 19, he went to a birthday party for rapper Heavy D at a cousin's Manhattan nightclub. The money and beautiful women hooked him. Two years later, a local DJ introduced Dash to Brooklyn rapper Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter. They teamed up, and Dash took Jay-Z on the road, but record labels weren't interested. Frustrated, Dash kept hustling Jay-Z at clubs in order to raise the money to start his own label, named in homage to the oil barons. He eventually persuaded Priority Records to distribute...
...incognito stints at Fiat operations: a headlight plant in England, a production line in Poland. He continues to plug away in obscurity, and has declined to answer press queries about the future. Questions in the past were related to the tragic circumstances of Elkann's rise. Originally, his cousin Giovanni Alberto Agnelli had been tapped, but he died of cancer in 1997. Three years later, Gianni's son Edoardo committed suicide...