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In order to systematically identify groups of adjacent, similarly expressed genes, we calculated the average pair-wise Pearson correlation of gene expression for genes in a sliding ten-gene window across the genome.
If anyone was not in a position to give us insight into the corrosive vacuity of our culture it's Allen, who's so out of touch that he reportedly cast Kirstie Allen in his last film, Deconstructing Harry , without ever having seen Cheers , and whose idea of sexual audacity in his new one is to have a hooker (Bebe Neuwirth, another actress he never saw on Cheers ) teach a repressed hysteric (Judy Davis) how to give a blow job by sliding a banana in and out of her mouth.
"I am quickly sliding downhill," he confided to an acquaintance at the time, "rolling I know not where, wrapped up in lots of bad pastels as if in so much packing paper."
The cell surfaces that are brought into contact with one another by these processes show no signs of repulsion even when tightly pressed together by twisting and supercoiling, yet they do not bond together in a manner that prevents their sliding over one other during growth and movement.
For a variety of reasons, including the devaluation in neighboring Brazil, Argentina has been sliding into a moderately severe recession and with it a growing budget deficit, just as a presidential election approaches.