Word: pak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Known as a Shelter-Pak, the hooded, full-length garment is covered with rip- proof nylon on one side and heavy wool on the other. Depending on how it's folded, it can convert from nighttime bedroll to daytime parka or even a backpack. Each Shelter-Pak contains a deep pocket that is almost as capacious as a duffel bag. Eighty of the garments have been distributed to homeless people in Philadelphia, and the students plan to turn out at least 200 more this year. Vows Assistant Professor Matthew Mehrman: "We are going to keep making Shelter-Paks until...
...Mulford abandons her experimental staging as the play progresses. During the second half of Hamlet, each speaker delivers their monologue while stiffly positioned at center stage--this technique effectively destroys the innovation that Mulford had promised the audience earlier. Hamlet's famous soliloquy is rendered by a subdued Alexander Pak, the emotional impact drained by static staging...
...fairly solid cast bolsters this production. Pak is impressive as the troubled prince, his charisma carrying him through most of the difficulties of the production. Explosive throughout his early scenes, Pak remians believeable while expressing both sorrow and rage. Particularly during Hamlet's early moments of madness, Pak commands the audience's complete attention. Disappointingly, he loses some of his vitality in the second half of the show...
...German reports, German companies also provided Iraq with 90% of its chemical-weapons capability. Most of the exports were dual-use items. Manufacturers told German customs officials that the shipments involved factory parts for the construction of pesticide plants. Actually they were destined for complexes like Samarra and Salman Pak, where Iraq developed its chemical and biological weapons. Now, warns Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, "U.S. troops may have to fight their way through Germany's chemical exports to destroy Germany's nuclear exports...
...Pak said she turned down offers to stay with friends because "I feel like I might be uncomfortable if I went home with people, and I might be really homesick...