"Mmm, " the kids say, before we walk into our airless apartment with its cold stove.

CNN: Coming to terms with dinner

But now all the summits are held in Brussels and we are trapped in an airless basement.

BBC: NEWS | Europe | Diary: EU crisis summit

From bionic limbs to airless bike tires, we've been tracking some pretty incredible new technological innovations.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: Dyson Spheres, bladeless wind turbines and airless bike tires

Sadly, neither the musty script nor the airless direction let the sparks ignite.

NEWYORKER: Something Borrowed

BriTek recently unveiled its amazing new Energy Return Wheel, which is an airless bike tire that can never go flat.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: Dyson Spheres, bladeless wind turbines and airless bike tires

Week by week, in airless church halls, in community centres laid out with plastic chairs, the picture came ever more sharply into focus.

ECONOMIST: Of memory and forgiveness

The old Three Stooges shorts were made in the nineteen-thirties and forties, and if you watch them now they look cramped, airless, and smudged.

NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

They died, crushed and airless in the dark.

NPR: No Alarm, Only 1 Exit In Brazil Nightclub Fire

They said water seemed to have flowed down two gullies in the past few years, even though liquid water cannot remain long on the planet's frigid, nearly airless surface because it would rapidly freeze or evaporate.

CNN: Life on Mars?

Airless perfection has its drawbacks.

WSJ: Fine Art Review: Richard Serra

It's airless and constricted.

BBC: David Bowie