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...Staff writer Marla B. Kaplan can be reached at kaplan@fas.harvard.edu...
What American export is hot in Japan these days? Cinnamon buns--big, gooey pastries with an aroma that could send you into insulin shock. In 1999, when Atlanta-based Cinnabon opened its first outlet there, 300 people lined up to buy its buns, says Gregg Kaplan, president of the chain. Rather than try to sell cinnamon buns in Japan on its own, the company partnered with Sugakico, a successful operator of a chain of ramen-noodle restaurants. Two years later, sales are five times as high at Japanese outlets as at those in the U.S. of comparable size and location...
...museum secretly gives each garden club its assignment early in the spring. Unlike flower arranging competitions, where arrangements are rigorously judged, “Art in Bloom” opens the door to all sorts of bold floral arrangements. In one of the most effective arrangements, created by Susan Kaplan of the Beth Shalom Garden Club, three thick, pitch-black palm spades interspersed with pink bird-of-paradise form a sharp, pyramid-like construction. The angles echo the shape of Alexander Archipenko’s sculpture “Turning Torso,” a simple abstracted nude in blue...
...history and its relatively simple format, it is not a difficult test for which to prepare. Students who familiarize themselves with the format of the test and likely vocabulary words have a definite advantage over students who do not. Capitalizing on this fact, companies like The Princeton Review and Kaplan offer elaborate, expensive test-prep classes to thousands of high school students. For several hundred dollars and a few weeks of time, these companies often guarantee to raise SAT scores by hundreds of points—and they usually succeed. Unfortunately, opportunities for artificially inflating scores are only available...
directed by Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan...