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Moran picks up Sabrina Zimmerman at the Inn at Harvard. Zimmerman, a Graduate School of Design student, appears exhausted and relieved; she has just defended her dissertation earlier in the evening. After three and a half years of using the shuttle to travel from the School of Design to her Cambridge apartment (a 15-minute walk), she is riding the shuttle for the final time. “It’s a great service that provides safety and warmth, and it gets me home in the middle of the night when I wouldn’t otherwise get there...
...majority of the shuttle’s customers are graduate students like Zimmerman. The shuttle is also popular with international students, who pass on knowledge of its existence through their grapevine. Moran adds that many Harvard students use it to go to bars or even the supermarket. “People pile in the shuttle when it’s cold out,” Moran quips...
...Zimmerman, who teaches a course on "Gender and Popular Culture in Japan" for Wellesley college's Japanese department, sees shojo's appeal from a more distanced perspective. "Shojo manga are popular because they tap into the social obstacles and challenges that girls face: feeling excluded by cliques, having crushes on boys, and often wrestling with issues of their own sexuality," she wrote me in an email from Japan. She continued, "But they are also popular because they present a glossy image of a different kind of existence where everyone dresses up fashionably and looks cute...
...wife Ashley Zimmerman concurs. "You are now as fabulous on the outside as you are on the inside," she says. Dan wouldn't argue. He's a positive thinker now, full of can-do, upbeat mottoes and brimming over with assertive high spirits. The man whose favorite sayings used to be "Love is a joke" and "Sex is just friction" spends his time these days flirting and dancing. He sincerely believes that "your life is in your hands and you can make it better." His eyes, no longer obscured by thick glasses, thanks to LASIK surgery, are a striking bluish...
...Zimmerman and Putnam will construct most of the props out of foam and wood, although they may also buy the more everyday items on their list...