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Some of this synthetic fiber is wrought into velvet and its cousins plush and chenille, materials known to be man-made even when made of silk.
Time says of John, "If he was less reckless than his cousins, it was not saying much; there were friends who turned down the invitation to take to the skies with him."
And as the primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory University) highlighted, how much of our empathic natures do we share with our ape cousins?
When I suggested that such empathy was unlikely given that, at the end of the day, she climbs into an air-conditioned BMW and drives back to her Malibu mansion while her clients return to stinking penury, I was told that she could empathize because her grandparents' cousins died in Auschwitz.
But so were the antagonisms that had long separated middle- and upper-class blacks from their sharecropper cousins.