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Being unhappy. Being happy. Friends who eat like a horse and never put on weight. Childhood admonishments to think of the starving in Africa. These are some of the reasons the overweight give to explain their size because they are too ashamed to admit they simply eat too much, according to a study. Researchers found there is such a stigma attached to being overweight that over-eaters are desperate to find something - or someone - else to blame. The findings mirror comments by Hamish Meldrum, the head of the British Medical Association, who said patients were increasingly seeking weight-loss pills...

Sen. Hillary Clinton's book has occasioned many surprises. It ought not to have been a success. Most of the reviews in the nation's most prestigious journals were hostile. Living History, it was said, was a political book designed to further her political career and a possible run for the presidency in 2008. It was a biased account of her years in the White House that told not the true story but her version of the story. Worst of all, it was said, she tried to explain why she did not dump Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. A woman...

"Living History" has far outpaced U.S. Sen. John McCain's memoir "Faith of My Fathers" (1999) and is closing in quickly on "My American Journey" by Gen. Colin Powell, which has 1.6 million hardback copies in print after eight years. Like the secretary of state's book, Clinton's has fueled speculation of a presidential run, either in 2004 or 2008. Former President Bill Clinton's wife insists that's "not in the cards," but she does see something positively political in the crowds of up to 2,000 people who have given her rock-star receptions at book-signings across the country. "I think it's a reflection...