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...Claire is always bubbly, happy and well adjusted,” Saretsky wrote. “Each day, she shows up to practice with a big grin from ear to ear and is excited about whatever we have in store that...
...whose sublime vanilla-bean-flecked custard nestles in a cradle of chocolate choux. During a trip to Japan last year, I had eaten a not insignificant number of these pastries, and I relished the opportunity to reacquaint myself with their virtues. But when I sidled up to a Tokyo store's cream-puff section - yes, there is a fridge shelf dedicated to this particular genre of baked goods in many Japanese groceries - to my great distress, my favorite dessert was nowhere to be found. Like so many food and beverage products in Japan's relentless market, it had been cast...
...Japan. American beer drinkers partial to Budweiser basically face a binary choice: Bud or Bud Lite, although they might occasionally find such niche-market products as Bud Select or Bud Extra. By contrast, when a Japanese beer drinker goes to buy a can of Asahi at an average convenience store, he has to choose between Super Dry, Premium, Prime Time, Black, Stout, Orion Draft, Northern Style, Clear, Flavorful, Gubi Draft, New Draft 3 and Ginger Draft, among others. And that's just this month's selection. (See pictures of Japanese design's greatest hits...
...Indeed, the greatest danger to the consumer of the never-ending parade of new Japanese products is developing an attachment to any one snack or beverage. Chances are, you'll soon enough find yourself standing bereft in a convenience store, scanning the shelves for a product that's been replaced by a newer craze. Which currently includes foods boosted with a nutritional supplement derived from pig placenta. Somehow, I just can't imagine that in a cream puff...
...decade between 1996 and 2005 and found that more than half of the complaints came not from the more traditionally chauvinistic mining or building trades but from five female-heavy industries: retail, services, finance, real estate and insurance. "One of the most ironic cases was that of a maternity store that had a policy of not hiring pregnant employees," says Jocelyn Frye, General Counsel for the Partnership...