A weeklong electronic journal.

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• I perpetrate a journalistic hit-and-run at D.C.'s auto show. 
  Hank Stuever Dec. 23, 2002
  
• Why I'm always thinking of selling my restaurant. 
  Mark Furstenberg Dec. 16, 2002
  
• More talking squirels and the meaning of life. 
  Robyn Hitchcock Dec. 9, 2002
  
• "Having a safety net makes it much easier to do acrobatics." 
  Steven Waldman Nov. 18, 2002
  
• Benefit auctions: where art collectors get into catfights. 
  Carol Kino Nov. 11, 2002
  
• "When I sign a copy of the book in New York, I feel like a monk getting off on the joys of naked vellum." 
  Anthony Lane Nov. 4, 2002
  
• "If there is one thing that neonatalogists can't agree on, it's 'kangaroo care.' " 
  Zac Unger Oct. 28, 2002
  
• I walked into the club prepared to get as boozed up as necessary to complete my mission as DJ. 
  Henry Eshelman Sept. 23, 2002
  
• "Healing is a matter of small acts of attention and care sustained over time." 
  Jamie Kalven Sept. 16, 2002
  
• Why, 21 years after my summer internship, I'm still at Newsweek. 
  Mark Whitaker Sept. 9, 2002
  
• My writing workshop wants me to kill children. 
  Dave Koch Aug. 19, 2002
  
• What kind of machine should the physics community build next? 
  Kenneth Bloom Aug. 5, 2002
  
• Heaving on the backpack and heading for a quiet beach retreat. 
  Seth Stevenson July 29, 2002
  
• "Mrs. Bryan is country with a 'k,' as we say down here. She actually has a beehive hairdo." 
  Jamie Weisman July 22, 2002
  
• No headline 
  July 18, 2002
  
• A way to reconnect with your parent once you're both of drinking age. 
  Paula Krebs July 15, 2002
  
• Why I'd been looking forward to radiation so eagerly. 
  Andrew Walcoff July 8, 2002
  
• Dr. Zhivago would feel at home in this shelter. 
  Michael Brus June 17, 2002
  
• American journalists turned Afghan wannabes in Kabul. 
  Steve Komarow June 10, 2002
  
• Witnessing English fans' official celebratory dance: running in place with a pint of beer in your hand. 
  Matthew Yeomans June 3, 2002
  
• Dissolving into laughter at the end of an 18-hour day. 
  Brooke Gladstone May 20, 2002
  
• Do people collect art because they are not creative themselves? 
  Nancy Cook May 13, 2002
  
• Why telemarketing, annoying as it is, works. 
  Francisco Guerrero May 6, 2002
  
• More photos from Francisco Guerrero. 
  May 6, 2002
  
• No headline 
  May 3, 2002
  
• "So is this my job? The job of Party Witness? The job of transcriber of voices?" 
  Rick Moody April 29, 2002
  
• Looking at Jerry Garcia's black T-shirt, Joey Ramone's sneakers, and the Styrofoam Stonehenge used in Spinal Tap. 
  Ann Powers April 22, 2002
  
• The charities supported by motorboat racing, motorcycle racing, and other Japanese gambling events. 
  David Plotz April 8, 2002
  
• Siegfried and Roy, Vegas' most depressing casino, and other lowlights from the Strip. 
  Chris Mohney April 1, 2002
  
• "Our host snatches up a passing chicken and casually dashes its brains out." 
  Lincoln Kaye March 25, 2002
  
• Unloading the new piglets from their custom trailer. 
  Dean Tofteland  March 18, 2002
  
• "Yes, holes are punched in seemingly random places, and furniture is thrown about." 
  Michelle Williams March 11, 2002
  
• Preparing for my shift on the bridge. 
  Avery Brott Feb. 25, 2002
  
• The curatorial equivalent of love at first sight. 
  Thelma Golden Feb. 20, 2002
  
• Policing high-school waterfights. 
  Drew Hindes Feb. 18, 2002
  
• Murdered goldfish, mini-golf accidents, and catastrophic rollerblade crashes. 
  Joseph Weisberg Feb. 11, 2002
  
• Watching the Olympic torch pass by on my last day in Salt Lake. 
  Ron Carlson Feb. 4, 2002
  
• Enjoying the pleasures of Egypt: soccer, film, and the Quran. 
  Lee Smith Jan. 28, 2002
  
• Looking forward to a tournament where you can reliably find a pickup game of Big Boggle. 
  Matt Gaffney Jan. 21, 2002
  
• The trouble with public intellectuals. 
  Richard A. Posner Jan. 14, 2002
  
• From physicist and matriarch in Africa to asylum-seeker in the United States. 
  Jennie Guilfoyle Jan. 7, 2002
  
• Surviving training, aka Barbie Boot Camp. 
  Jodi Teitelman Jan. 2, 2002