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Vacationers across country get crafty with art projects

• Rain doesn't spoil vacation for the Benoit family of Springfield, Ill.
  
  It gives them an excuse to get creative at the Express Yourself Art Barn near Saugatuck, Mich. The family always carves out time to work on craft projects at the studio and let the children make souvenirs, said their mother, Peggy Benoit.
  
  

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Fall looks return to the 'Material Girl' era

• NEW YORK - Shoulder pads, leggings, studded shoe booties and power suits. When it comes to fashion this fall, it's an '80s world and we're just living in it.
  
  
  
  The best-known runway names are playing an ode to the decade that was known for its excess and then, toward the end, a stock-market slump. Maybe the tastemakers are hoping the style redo will help bring on the next step in today's rather similar situation: recovery.

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