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If you're planning to expand your fall wardrobe, somber colors and '80s rock 'n' roll apparel should top your list. That's the style reflected at Colonial Mall-Decatur's fall fashion show Saturday. The mall's Teen Board strutted favorite cool-weather clothes from Sears, Parisian, Rainbow Fashions, Dillard's, Maurices, J.C. Penney, Pac Sun, Gap and Aeropostale. "All of our stores have really cute and casual back-to-school items," said Tammy A. Burks, marketing director at Colonial Mall-Decatur. Since the late '90s, most fashion trends have trickled down from adults to teenagers. Fall 2006 breaks this routine. Trends are starting with teenagers and trickling up...

Pepsi, Vowing Diversity Isn't Just Image Polish, Seeks Inclusive Culture By CHAD TERHUNE Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL April 19, 2005; Page B1 "Steve Reinemund says he was stunned when he got an e-mail late one night back in 2001, shortly after becoming PepsiCo's chairman and CEO. He had spent the evening with a small group of African-American employees at Pepsi headquarters in Purchase, N.Y. At the end, he had stood on some patio steps to give a few closing remarks. In the e-mail, one of the attendees wrote that the scene reminded her of a plantation owner...