Appetite If you could choose, would you forgo the hassles of eating forever? The arguments in its favor are compelling, but finding an answer is difficult. Searching for a solution, Geoff Badner photographs a week’s worth of food.

Progress Reports: Fourth Quarter 2003 The Institute of Improbable Research has the means to make the impossible happen. From losing a loser’s viriginity to building the best coach in the world, John Warner has their year-end results.

Knee-Jerk Notes on New Fiction To properly find a new book to read takes a great deal of time and energy. Barring that, one might as well resort to scanning the shelves with gut instinct. And that’s exactly what Claire Miccio does with the current crop of fiction.

My Brush with Terrorism Being paged at the airport can sometimes be a lucky break, until it’s a federal investigation. A bag search, substance analysis, and interrogation later, you can forget being upgraded to first class. Jerry Mahoney recalls a misunderstanding at check-in.