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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.
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.
Mefloquine (80 μM) upregulated the transcription of four of five ER resident chaperones, GRP78, PDI, GRP94 and calreticulin, GADD153 and PERK (one way ANOVA P < 0.05, n = 20, FC > 1.3, Table 2).
The pundits were generally enthusiastic about Glenn's rocket ride--McLaughlin gushed that it would "change the outlook on who is old"--although the cynics deemed the trip an "interplanetary perk for a favored politician" (Kate O'Beirne, Capital Gang ). Juan Williams ( Fox News Sunday ) worked the issue for the gag: Send Strom Thurmond instead, to determine "the effect of weightlessness on orange hair."
Some errors are harder to see but just as surely mistaken: “I frowned at the coffee percolator, which —finally began to perk.