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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...
...fear, deep pride, lost mail, long waits and improvisation. The white heat of the summer is hard to remember now, when it becomes cold enough at night to leave ice rattling inside canteens. At the very front lines, the motto is "Travel light, freeze at night." Soldiers sleep in parka linings, with socks on their hands if their mittens are missing. They wish they could requisition extra toes...
There go the rich and famous, whooshing down manicured slopes in their designer parka-and-pants outfits and wearing $600 skis. Where can this be but Aspen or Vail? On second glance, it is neither of those places. Since the two most famous Colorado resorts have become insufferably chic, members of the smart set are seeking seclusion and pampering at Deer Valley, a 10-year-old resort in Utah's Wasatch Mountains. So far, this unspeakably well-groomed complex has entertained the likes of Bruce Willis, Kevin Costner and Cheryl Tiegs...
...Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger. "One hour, maybe two, to wait," says a housewife bundled into a shabby parka. "That is, if any is left...
...last words. He never went back to the store. Sometime after his wake-up call, he left the hotel, drove ten miles to the Tobin Bridge in his new Nissan Maxima and jumped. When police fished him out of the water, he was dressed in blue jeans and a parka, suggesting that he may have picked up a change of clothes after leaving the convenience store. Stuart left a brief note on the passenger seat of his car that said, "I love my family . . . the last four months have been real hell . . . all the allegations have taken all my strength...