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Kamen points out that Ashcroft didn't mention Breslauer also recently wrote a piece for Playboy called "Stacked Like Me" describing her recent decision to perk up her boring life by getting 34D breast implants.
The Rat Genome U34 array was found to contain probe-sets representing the ER chaperones glucose-regulated protein (GRP) 78, protein disulfide isomerase, GRP94, calreticulin and endoplasmic reticulum protein 29 (EPR29), GADD153 and PERK.
It's a little known perk available to anyone 60 or older: 21 states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico operate legal-assistance hot lines for older adults and most take calls from younger caregivers as well.
My closeness to the University is strengthened by a family legacy which goes back over 100 years to my great-great-grandfather, Professor William F. Swahlen, who taught Greek at Indiana Asbury from 1887-1914, and carried on with my great-grandfather, Joseph P. Allen '97; my mother, Harriet Taylor Allen '28; my father, Joseph P. "Perk" Allen '30, professor emeritus of economics; my brother, Dr. David T. Allen '61; my wife, Bonnie Darling Allen '61; and continues today with my nephew, Tim Allen '92.
These pieces have long been a newspaper staple, but the news is that, in the Post 's words, "In an era when congressional gift rules have all but eliminated the free lunch, the free round of golf and the free night on the town, congressional travel is the last great perk."