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Women who keep a food journal, don't skip meals and don't eat out lunch at restaurants very often lose more weight, a new study shows.

Los Angeles Times writer Geraldine Baum shares excerpts from her diary, scrawled in a leather-bound journal in the chaotic streets of Lower Manhattan the day the twin towers fell. The brown-leather journal is my passport to Sept. 11, 2001.

The ex-president gives a sense of day-to-day life in the Oval Office — and plays the blame game. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Herbert Hoover might be bracketed together for a number of reasons.

He felt lonely, said he hadn't had a girlfriend since 1984. He said his father didn't love him. And he detailed plans to kill young women. George Sodini, the 48-year-old man police blame for killing three women and wounding 10 others in a suburban Pittsburgh gym, left behind an online diary of his thoughts as he planned his attack.