Cousins joins Calipari at UK

Forward DeMarcus Cousins has signed a national letter of intent to play at Kentucky, the first one secured by new coach John Calipari.

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A family feud in a sacred Indian city

On the banks of a holy river, two chubby rivals sit feet apart in front of side-by-side restaurants. Each day, the two men with long ponytails and pink makeup compete for the lunch crowd's attention.

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Remains Found May Be Missing Cousins

A homeless man was charged with murder Friday after workmen clearing a weeded lot discovered remains tentatively identified as those of a pregnant teenager and her 4-year-old cousin, who both vanished in 2005.

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Like Honey and Vinegar.

No one, only each other can hurt the other, Related by siblings, mother and father, Hug of love, each time one another sees, Warring latter the hugs like a mortal enemies.

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But in a paper in the journal PLoS Biology, Hamish Spencer of New Zealand's University of Otago and Diane Paul of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology argue that the genetic risk to children born of cousin marriages is much less than widely believed. Risk is in the eye of …

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Inbreeding is the source of jokes about British royalty and is associated with increased birth defects among offspring. The practice is so reviled that 31 U.S.

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COLLINGWOOD president Eddie McGuire has refused to be drawn on speculation the Magpies will resurrect the career of former West Coast captain Ben Cousins or chase his former teammate, Daniel Kerr, who continues to be at the centre of trade speculation

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WA scientists are challenging the myth that inbreeding always leads to unhealthy babies. The highly contentious, often-tabooed practice has in the past been linked to deformities such as heart disease, mental retardation, deafness and even blindness.

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"There's no real data on this," says Jonathan Turner of University of California at Riverside. "Most likely it's an indirect mechanism, not straight genetic-genetic attraction. People with shared interests and personality traits tend to like each other."

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A young mother opens her kitchen fridge, taking out a mango yoghurt for her 11-year-old son. She calls him to the table three times. When the boy fails to appear, she runs up the narrow stairs of their terrace house in a former Yorkshire mill town to get him.

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Edgar Allan Poe, and Albert Einstein all married cousins. Maybe these creative geniuses were on to something. A new study suggests that mating with relatives has reproductive advantages.

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Is It Just a Coincidence....Or Something More?

Yesterday started out like any other day, except that it was my youngest daughter's 31st birthday. We planned to go to a movie and then dinner later on in the afternoon.

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In the Twilight of the Era of Big Families: How will we cope?

The Era of Big Families is coming to an end. What are the implications for our children, and what are the implications for us when we grow old?

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Eleven members of one family have all had their stomachs removed after advances in genetic testing showed they would probably die young from a rare hereditary form of gastric cancer.

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