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New Concerns of Potentially Increasing Nuclear Threat From Iran; Clinton Presidential Library Opens

Aired November 18, 2004 - 19:00   ET

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HEIDI COLLINS, HOST: New concerns of a potentially increasing nuclear threat from Iran.
360 starts right now.

The comeback kid is showered with rain and salutes as his presidential library opens with star power and presidents.

The FDA and pharmaceutical companies, a sweet relationship some believe may be a bitter pill, especially when it concerns your health.

In-your-face ads about screening for prostate cancer. Does the message go too far?

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HOWARD STERN, TALK SHOW HOST: ... the death of the FCC...

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COLLINS: Shock jock Howard Stern declares the death of the FCC and gives away free stuff. Is it just a stunt, or is this a man on a mission?

More and more Americans addicted to lust. The multibillion- dollar porn industry easily accessible any time of day. What you can do to break free.

And our special series, Eternal Youth: America's Obsession with Staying Young. Tonight, I'll ask Dr. Nicholas Perricone if the fountain of youth can be found in a diet.

ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.

COLLINS: Good evening again, everybody.

Not very long ago, the suspicion that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons was enough to send this country to war. So what to do now about Iran, and what departing Secretary of State Colin Powell says may be happening there?

CNN national correspondent David Ensor reports on this controversy.

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DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At issue is whether Iran is already working on designs for a nuclear warhead that could sit on top of this, the new Shahab-3 missile, tested in October, and designed to hit targets within 2,000 kilometers, or about 1,200 miles.

On his way to Chile, Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters he has seen new intelligence suggesting Iran may be working not only on how to enrich uranium to bomb grade, but also, quote, "on delivery systems."

"I'm talking," said Powell, "about information that says that they not only had these missiles, but I'm aware of information that suggests they were working hard as to how to put the two together."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's another piece of the puzzle. It is -- it deals with the issue of not necessarily the development of weapons of mass destruction, but the development of delivery systems.

DAVID ALBRIGHT, INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: You'd have to do a lot of engineering feats in order to be at the point of making a missile carry a nuclear warhead.

ENSOR: The problem for the Bush administration, though, is credibility. After sending Powell to the U.N. with intelligence on Iraq's weapons, much of which now appears to have been wrong, will the world take what it is saying seriously this time?

ALBRIGHT: The United States has been accusing Iran of having an active nuclear weapons program for years, and the information often has been ambiguous, or, in some cases, not very good. And so I think that if this information is actionable and is credible, then I would use it to confront the Iranians, not to just walk away from the deal.

ENSOR: The deal in question is the one agreed in principle by three European governments and Iran. Iran would suspend uranium enrichment and allow inspections in exchange for trade and respectability.

(on camera): Many U.S. officials are highly suspicious that Iran would simply use the deal to buy time to make nuclear weapons.

David Ensor, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COLLINS: It was a big day in Little Rock, even with the rain. The current president and all his living predecessors except Gerald Ford were on hand in Arkansas today for the official opening of the William Jefferson Clinton Library. The modernistic library itself is a flashy affair, and there was a pretty fair amount of human flash in evidence too.

CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley reports.

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SINGERS (singing): ... when the rain comes, when the rain comes...

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The weather was completely miserable, wet, cold, and windy. But how many times can you see Bono and four U.S. presidents in the same place?

FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: ... that at the end of a very difficult political year -- more difficult for some of us than others -- it is valuable for the world to see two Democrats and two Republicans assembled together, all honoring the great nation that has permitted us to serve.

CROWLEY: It was like a meeting of the world's most elite, most unlikely club, gathered to fete one of its own, part high ceremony, part Rotary Club.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A fellow in Saline County was asked by his son why he liked Governor Clinton so much. He said, Son, he'll look you in the eye, he'll shake your hand, he'll hold your baby, he'll pet your dog, all at the same time.

FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH: Simply put, he was a natural, and he made it look too easy. And oh, how I hated him for that.

CROWLEY: The natural, looking pale and smaller since heart surgery, is still the master politician, sweetened now by the touch of an elder statesman.

FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: As I once said to a friend of mine about three days before the election -- and I heard all these terrible things -- I said, You know, am I the only person in the entire United States of America who likes both George W. Bush and John Kerry, who believes they're both good people, who believes they both love our country, and they just see the world differently?

CROWLEY: He has put together the biggest, most expensive presidential library yet, filled with more objects, more paperwork than any previous administration. It is so very Bill Clinton.

SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: The building is like my husband. It's open, it's expansive, it's welcoming, it's filled with light.

CROWLEY: Candy Crowley, CNN, Little Rock.

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COLLINS: Seriously, though, what was the backup plan for the rain?

Anyway, on to other topics today.

Today in Providence, Rhode Island, a veteran television journalist found himself in court, not to cover a verdict, but to have one pronounced on him.

Deborah Feyerick reports on the case of Jim Taricani.

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DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Calling the guilty verdict an assault on journalistic freedom, investigative reporter Jim Taricani said he'd continue protecting the identity of his source.

JOSEPH CAVANAUGH, FIRST AMENDMENT ATTORNEY: "I made a promise to my source, which I intend to keep."

FEYERICK: A federal judge finding that promise directly defies a court order, one requiring the reporter to divulge who gave him a copy of an FBI surveillance tape.

CAVANAUGH: "But when people are afraid, a promise of confidentiality may be the only way to get the information to the public... "

FEYERICK: The tape shows a top aide to the former Providence, Rhode Island, mayor taking a cash bribe inside City Hall. Both men would later be found guilty of corruption. But at the time the tape aired on the local NBC station, everyone involved in the case was under a gag order, the judge saying he didn't object to airing the tape, he objected that someone had broken the law by giving it to the reporter in the first place.

Rhode Island legal expert Edward Roy.

EDWARD ROY, FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER: It is extremely rare, I think, for someone to have defied a court order as Mr. Taricani did, although I think the difference in this context is, from what I understand, his argument is that he was basing it on his First Amendment rights as a journalist.

FEYERICK: Taricani is one of a dozen reporters around the country risking fines or prison for not revealing sources. Others are under investigation for source leaks concerning former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee and outed CIA agent Valerie Plame. Free speech experts say prosecuting journalists could have a chilling effect.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's an important element of the First Amendment that's being infringed, and that is the ability to gather information.

FEYERICK (on camera): Taricani has paid $85,000 in fines. Those fines and his legal fees are being covered by his network. He faces up to six months in prison when he's sentenced in December and is now deciding whether to appeal. Because he received a heart transplant several years ago, his big concern is the impact prison might have on his health.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Providence, Rhode Island.

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COLLINS: A possible new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. That tops our look at stories cross-country.

The initial test for mad cow disease was inconclusive on the animal in question. Officials aren't saying where the cow was located. Tissue samples are undergoing further analysis, though. Results expected within the next seven days. The USDA says the animal never entered the food chain, so there's no need to worry.

Washington, D.C., Condoleezza Rice to have minor surgery. Tomorrow doctors will block arteries to noncancerous fibroid tumors. The national security adviser and secretary of state nominee expected to be back at work Monday.

Broward County, Florida, taser fallout. A police officer quits after an investigation found he lied about using a taser on a handcuffed man in a holding cell. The whole thing caught on camera and showed the officer hit the man with 50,000 volts after he sat down, not while he was kicking and screaming, as he said.

Near Austin, Texas, dramatic high-water rescue. Look at this. Firefighters used a ladder to get this woman out of rushing flood waters. Her car got carried into the creek during a rainstorm. Luckily, though, she was not hurt.

And Parkland, Florida, guy lassos gator. The six-foot reptilian had been stalking a neighborhood for weeks. After fish and game wouldn't help, the man took matters into his own hands with bravery and success.

And that's a look at stories cross-country tonight.

360 next, Howard Stern says down with the FCC and puts his money where his mouth is. Find out why he's calling it the death of commercial radio.

Plus, shock ads for men. A controversial campaign to get men screened for prostate cancer.

Also tonight, who's minding the store? The FDA accused of being too cozy with drug companies. We'll take a closer look at the decisions that affect your health.

But first, your picks, the most popular stories on CNN.com right now.

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COLLINS: It's round, oh, say, 112 or so between Howard Stern and the FCC. Today the shock jock declared the death of his regulating rival as he gave out hundreds of dollars' worth of free gifts to his fans. On a stage adorned with American flags, as Ozzy Osbourne music blared, Stern distributed some 500 Sirius Satellite Radio boomboxes and thousands of certificates for free radios. Stern is planning to take his show to Sirius in 2006 because of his frequent run-ins with the FCC.

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STERN: I want you to experience radio the way I think it should be, the future of radio. Sirius Satellite Radio will dominate the medium. It is the death of FM radio, the death of the FCC interference, the death of the FCC. Down with the FCC! They have ruined commercial broadcasting.

Twenty years ago I got into the business. Radio sucked. I came on the scene. I went out and I made a different kind of radio. And the FCC is dismantling it. It isn't right. It's going to stop. Satellite radio is the future.

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COLLINS: Of course, not everyone agrees with Stern's opinions on the FCC, and his actions do come with a price. Stern's fans will have to shell out 13 bucks a month to hear him on satellite radio.

Of course, Howard Stern isn't the only one who's had run-ins with the FCC. Just yesterday, FCC chairman Michael Powell criticized ABC for showing a little skin during a skit before "Monday Night Football."

Today the man who appeared in the clip alongside the "Desperate Housewives" stars responded to the controversy. Terrell Owens of the Philadelphia Eagles said he's sorry the skit offended people, but he also says he didn't realize it would create such a backlash.

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TERRELL OWENS, PHILADELPHIA EAGLES: I don't think it's any different than little kids watching "South Park" or "King of the Hill," things of those nature. And, you know, obviously, everybody knows the contents that's surrounded by those shows. So my thing is, what's the difference?

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COLLINS: Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb also expressed the same sentiment. He says people are overreacting.

Like the ABC controversy, a new ad campaign is also generating plenty of heat. The message behind the advertising blitz is an important one. It's about cancer. But it's being delivered with a shock value that some may find extreme and explicit.

CNN's Adaora Udoji reports.

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ADAORA UDOJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even along a busy Manhattan street, the posters stand out. Over a picture of a nude man, one asks, "what do we have to do to remind you to get a prostate screening? Tie a ribbon on it?" JULIE LEWIT-NUREMBERG, BLUE RIBBON PROSTATE INITIATIVE: They're intended to be shocking, because this is not the time to be bashful and reticent, especially when it comes to saving men's lives.

UDOJI: President of the Blue Ribbon Prostate Initiative, Julie Lewit-Nuremberg says people must understand 230,000 men are newly diagnosed, and 30,000 die of prostate cancer, every year. Determined to change that, the magazine veteran developed an ad campaign. The first one ran in "O"'s September issue. And the response, she says, was immediate. A thousand men and women, mostly women, called for information.

LEWIT-NUREMBERG: Men do not go to the doctor unless somebody literally says to them, OK, honey, you're going, and you're going right now.

UDOJI: Ads are also planned in half a dozen upcoming national magazines.

(on camera): Then there are these street posters. She says 130 have been put up the past two months here in New York City, with more planned across the country next year.

(voice-over): Some from New York's Conservative Party applaud the goal, but say ads like this go too far. It reads, "Finally, it pays to think with your (expletive deleted)."

MIKE ONG, NEW YORK CONSERVATIVE PARTY: I think what they're really doing here is shock value. It's outrageous that they go to the lowest level trying to appeal to someone, to get someone's attention.

UDOJI: Lewit-Nuremberg respectfully disagrees. She says little else seems to work, and she's determined to see prostate cancer death rates decline.

Adaora Udoji, CNN, New York.

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COLLINS: Thousands of insurgents killed in fighting in Falluja. That tops our look at global stories in the uplink.

A U.S. commander says 51 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the offensive to retake Falluja began. About 425 troops have been wounded. The military estimates some 1,200 insurgents were killed in the battles there.

London, England, unity for peace. French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair says they're putting aside their differences on Iraq and are calling for stability there. Chirac is on a two-day visit to the U.K.

Madrid, Spain, a racially abusive crowd. Britain is seeking action from Spain after the crowd at a soccer match in Madrid turned ugly yesterday. The fans mocked England's black soccer players and even made monkey noises when those players touched the ball. England's soccer program is filing formal complaints to soccer organizers and the Spanish Federation.

And that's tonight's uplink.

360 next, addicted to porn, the multibillion-dollar industry. Find out why some people just can't seem to stop looking, even if it is ruining their lives.

Also tonight, the FDA. Is it looking out for your health, or the profits of drug companies? We're covering all sides of the debate that's heating up on Capitol Hill.

And a little later, kissing the cabinet nominees. Women get extra attention. Double standards in the corridors of power, that's raw politics.

Plus, in a moment, today's 360 challenge. How closely have you been following today's news?

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COLLINS: It took a fraction of a second for a Google search to come up with 233 million hits for the word "porn." Clearly, porn is popular. But is it addictive? Some psychologists think so, insisting it has a profound effect on the brain, making addicts coast to coast do just about anything to get their fix.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was just at the bank, and there was this really hot teller, and she didn't ask me to go do it with her in the vault.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Same kind of thing happened to me. Woman pizza delivery guy comes over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what? We have to turn off the porn.

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COLLINS (voice-over): But turning off the porn is not what America is doing. In blue states and red states too, some believe the nation has a porn problem big enough for the Senate to hold a hearing today to try to understand the roots of porn addiction.

Experts say it is difficult to know exactly how prevalent porn addiction is. Figures are scarce, and testimony hard to get. Yet many agree...

DOUG WEISS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HEART TO HEART COUNSELING CENTER: Pornography addiction is hugely on the rise. What we're seeing is almost epidemic, not only in the older generation going back to pornography, you know, when they watched it when they were young guys, but we're also seeing the young men, 12, 13, 14, handing out CDs and DVDs to each other like toys.

COLLINS: A recent survey of more than 17,000 Americans conducted by the journal of "Cyberpsychology and Behavior" found that 6 percent met the criteria for full-fledged porn addiction.

One reason for this boom, experts say, the availability of porn. As of July 2003, there were 260 million pages of pornography online, an increase of almost 2,000 percent since 1998. The multibillion- dollar porn industry churns out some 11,000 porn flicks a year, nearly three times the number of regular movies Hollywood produces. And there are also adult magazines in newsstands and pay-per-view programming available at home and in hotels.

WEISS: Pornography has gone mainstream. We've gone away from the dirty old man to the very -- I am very cool and socially acceptable if I have a pornography stash.

COLLINS: A stash that keeps getting bigger in American households.

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COLLINS: Joining me from Colorado Springs, Colorado, for more on pornography addiction is Doug Weiss. He's the executive director of the Heart to Heart Counseling Center.

Thanks for being with us, Mr. Weiss.

WEISS: Heidi, it's good to be here.

COLLINS: You yourself are a recovering sex addict. What role did pornography actually play in your addiction?

WEISS: Well, pornography in my life and in all my clients' life, it's foundational. All the people who come to our clinic, most of them have had years and thousands of repetitions with pornography, developing them into porn addicts.

COLLINS: But, you know, there are plenty of people out there who would say, Just turn off the TV, or stay away from the porn Web sites. They'd say there's no way it's an addiction. So how do you respond to that?

WEISS: Well, I mean, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), look at the stories you did tonight. I mean, how many of them had to do with sexual inappropriateness? I love the clips you said about, you know, the pizza girl coming in, and she didn't want to have sex. What's happened is, America has begun to believe about sexual addiction beliefs. You know, that's women are objects. They're only there.

I mean, how would you feel, as a woman, if someone just treats you like a toy, like you're supposed to come off the set and you're supposed to have sex with them because of what they've been looking on the computer?

COLLINS: Well, obviously, not very good, but if I'm not watching the TV, or if I'm not on the computer, doesn't that help to control it?

WEISS: Well, it does, except what happens is, like many men, they have stored thousands of images into their mind, their own personal hard drive. They don't need a computer. And they can go to the fantasy world and elicit the same neurochemical responses as if they were watching television. Your brain cannot distinguish between a real and imaginary picture. There's lots of research that shows that.

COLLINS: You know, you do hear a lot about drug addicts, or alcoholics. They sometimes end up selling pretty much everything they own to get their next fix. The drugs oftentimes become more important than the people that they love. Does it work the same with pornography?

WEISS: Oh, yes. I've had guys sell their cars, sell their houses, leave their wives, all kind of stories that would make you just kind of cringe, for more pornography, more strippers, or whatever the thing is.

Pornography is a real issue for men. Once it gets its hook inside of you, oftentimes you don't even believe you can get well, you can stop. And you can. I've been free for 17 years. People call our office and fly all over the country to get here. You can get free.

And you know, really, you make a lot more money, your relationships are happier, you're not as isolated, you're not as depressed. There's a lot of symptoms that go along with being a sex addict.

COLLINS: Well, try to put it a little bit in perspective for us. What is the difference, then, between a porn addict and somebody who simply watches porn?

WEISS: Well, a porn addict is going to use pornography much like an alcoholic or drug addict, Heidi. They're going to, when they feel down, they're going to go to it. When they want to celebrate, they want to go to it. It becomes their best friend. They've tried to stop hundreds of times, say, That's ridiculous, I'm going to stop this, and they keep going back to it. They begin to socially isolate. Sometimes they go to more or more bizarre types of pornography to satisfy their porn addiction.

So the porn addict knows they're addicted. They know they're struggling. They know they're incongruent, oftentimes.

COLLINS: From Colorado Springs, Colorado, tonight, Doug Weiss. Thanks for your insight.

WEISS: Thank you, Heidi.

COLLINS: The FDA and pharmaceutical companies, a sweet relationship some believe may be a bitter pill, especially when it concerns your health.

And our special series, Eternal Youth: America's Obsession with Staying Young. Tonight I'll ask Dr. Nicholas Perricone if the fountain of youth can be found in a diet.

360 continues.

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COLLINS: In the last 10 years the FDA has approved about 1,000 or so new drugs. But today lawmakers turned the microscope on the FDA itself. Over concerns that the agency did not act fast enough to pull Vioxx off the market. The painkiller was recalled in September because of heart risks. And while the FDA defended its actions regarding Vioxx today, critics are charging the agency has become too cozy with the industry it's supposed to regulate.

More now from CNN's Allan Chernoff.

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ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A Congressional grilling of the food and drug administration.

SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R), IOWA: One of my concerns is that the FDA has a relationship with drug companies that is far too cozy. That's exactly the opposite of what it should be. The health and safety of the public must be FDA's first and only concern.

CHERNOFF: How things change. At the height of the AIDS epidemic more than a dozen years ago the FDA was under attack for being too tough on pharmaceutical companies, blocking them from delivering new remedies to the market. Congress responded by arranging for the industry to help pay for a bigger FDA staff to review new drugs. The FDA in turn began working hand in hand with pharmaceutical firms.

DR. KENNETH KAITIN, TUFTS CSOD: And they're helping companies put together their new drug application, which is required for approval, in a more reliable consistent fashion.

CHERNOFF: The more cooperative relationship accelerated approval of new treatments for AIDS and cancer, but recently it has also resulted in what critics say is easier policing of the industry. Fewer warning labels, fewer drugs forced off the market.

DR. SANDRA KWEDER, FDA: It can't be both ways. We can't have fewer drug withdrawals being a reflection of a cozier relationship with industry and too many drug withdrawals as evidence of same.

CHERNOFF: Now, however, with dangerous drugs such as Vioxx having remained on the market, the public mood is shifting.

(on camera): It is a challenge to find the appropriate balance between the promise of new medicines and their potential dangers. Now after the Vioxx scandal, scientists predict the FDA will swing back to more cautious oversight of the pharmaceutical industry.

Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE) COLLINS: So is the FDA too cozy with drug companies, or is it on the right track?

We're covering all the angles tonight. So let's bring in representative Henry Waxman, ranking Democrat on the government Reform Committee, and representative John Mica, a Republican also on the Reform Committee.

Gentlemen, thanks so much for being here tonight.

REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D), Thank you.

REP. JOHN MICA (R), FLORIDA: Pleasure to be with you.

COLLINS: Congressman Mica, I want to begin with you. The FDA has received about $1 billion in the last 10 years or so from pharmaceutical companies that it is actually supposed to regulate.

Do you think that poses any kind of conflict of interest?

MICA: Well, I think that it's important that drug companies share some of the burden for research and also some of the costs, but we do have to keep a very close eye on the relation relationship between the regulator and the regulated.

COLLINS: Interesting what we heard on this story preceding you. You can't have it both ways. You can't get down on the FDA for saying too many recalls, can't get down on them for saying not enough.

MICA: That's right. Congress actually in response to the AIDS epidemic loosened some of their requirements, but there has to be a clear balance.

COLLINS: But Congressman Waxman, let me get to you now. The infusion of money from the pharmaceuticals have shortened the average FDA drug approval, I believe it used to be 32 months, it's now down to 13 months.

So isn't that reduced time frame in the public's best interest?

WAXMAN: The public wants drugs approved and out as fast as possible, and the FDA is under a lot of pressure to get drugs approved and marketed quickly. But the other side of that is there are problems with drugs that they don't find out about in advance and they're not doing a very good job of oversight on post-marketing. And we need much more surveillance. The Vioxx is a good example. The FDA had some hints of problems, that the problems, however, didn't start developing until large numbers of people used the drug. But FDA didn't push for more studies by Merck. Merck didn't do these studies.

COLLINS: So, you're talking about follow up, more follow up.

WAXMAN: The follow up. And if we're going to have a fast approval process, we have to have even a stronger follow up. But FDA is failing its job in a number of areas. They're not doing the follow up. They're not doing the oversight. They're not enforcing the rules. They let Vioxx make claims for their drugs that shouldn't have been allowed. And they marketed it so aggressively without knowing all the risks.

COLLINS: All right, well, let's get something in "The Washington Post" today. Congressman Mica, go ahead and listen to this and tell me what you think on the back side today. "Washington Post" today wrote this, "The decrease in FDA enforcement has come despite a steadily rising number of reports of potentially harmful side effects from approved drugs. From 1996 to 2004 the annual number of these adverse effects almost doubled."

What do you say to that?

MICA: Well, again, we had the pressure from the public, we had the pressure from interest groups like AIDS to move this process forward. People want cure -- miracle drugs as soon as possible. I think I agree with Mr. Waxman that it's important that we strike a balance, that we move the process forward but that FDA does an adequate job of oversight and regulation. Now, by the same token sometimes when we overregulate we end up outsourcing or forcing production overseas like we've seen with the flu vaccine.

COLLINS: But you say adequate. Is that good enough?

And Congressman Waxman, to you now, whose responsibility is it to get safe drugs on the market?

WAXMAN: Well, I think it's the Food and Drug Administration's responsibility. They're supposed to assure the public that when a drug is permitted to be marketed it has been carefully scrutinized to be safe and effective. And they do that initially before it's approved, but they've got to follow up after the drug's already on the market. And the drug companies like Merck had no incentive to do the studies to really find out whether there are cardiovascular stroke and heart disease problems resulting from their drug, and they promoted it as if there were no problems.

Now, yesterday we had a hearing where the FDA didn't do its job on policing the vaccine manufacturer, that then ended up not being able to produce half the vaccine supply for flu in this country. So FDA is really not doing its job adequately.

COLLINS: To the both of you tonight, we certainly appreciate your time in the discussion. Representative Henry Waxman and Representative John Mica. Gentlemen, thanks.

MICA: Thank you.

WAXMAN: Thanks.

COLLINS: Down Pennsylvania avenue at the White House this week, after the president announced two cabinet picks, he gave a couple of pecks. It's nice to see the president show some compassion toward his staff, but his affection seems a bit stronger with the women. Do you remember Donald Rumsfeld getting a smooch when he was nominated four years ago, we don't think so. Sure, a kiss may be just a kiss, but then again, it could also be something else, perhaps a bit of "Raw Politics."

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COLLINS (voice-over): The president proudly presented his nominee for secretary of state, old friend and confidant Condoleezza Rice. Then he sealed his glowing statement with a kiss. And a few days later he kicked the kissing up a notch when the nominee for education secretary, Margaret Spellings, took the stage, and he got her smack on the lips. So what's going on here? is the president becoming a little bit more continental or is it something more sinister beneath the surface?

DONNA BRAZILE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, you know, it's part of the southern culture and southern hospitality to always greet friends with a handshake or a hug or a kiss, and it's quite American in many ways that the president would continue those traditions.

COLLINS: But there are other sometimes unsettling signs that we might be taking a step backward in the hard-fought battle against sexism. Bush adviser Karl Rove had no qualms talking about his history with Margaret Spellings, telling the "Houston chronicle" How she turned him down for a date in the '80s. Quote, "Brutally. It has taken my ego decades to recover." And listen to CNN's Wolf Blitzer stating Condi Rice's resume on the air.

Condoleezza Rice, 50-years-old, a former provost at Stanford University out in California. She's single.

COLLINS: Or South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings on his female colleagues in his final speech from the Senate floor.

SEN. FRITZ HOLLINGS (D), SOUTH CAROLINA: Now we've got 15 or 17, and you can't shut them up.

COLLINS: So are we seeing a relaxing of the rules that could lead to a loss of respect for women in the workplace?

BRAZILE: I think we need to get back to some form of decorum in how we talk about things in the public.

COLLINS: So maybe a kiss is just a kiss. But in the corridors of power, every word, every nuance, draws attention to the sensitivity of sexual "Raw Politics."

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COLLINS: 360 next, can what you eat keep you young? An anti- aging guru says the fountain of youth may be in your refrigerator.

And in a moment, today's "360 Challenge." How closely have you been following today's news? Find out next.

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COLLINS: Time now for today's 360 challenge. Be the first to answer all three questions correctly, and win a free 360 t-shirt.

No. 1, how many former U.S. presidents attended the dedication of the Clinton library?

The journalist found in contempt for not revealing his source faces up to how many months in prison?

And how many Sirius Satellite Radio boom boxes did shock jock Howard Stern hand out today?

To take the challenge, log on to cnn.com/360. Then click on the answer link. Answer first, you get the shirt. Find out last night's challenge winner and tonight's answers coming up.

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COLLINS: These days in the quest to look younger, you can go under the knife for facelifts, or the needle for Botox. Others, though, as hoping to find youth in a bottle. CNN's Jason Bellini explains as we continue our series, "Eternal Youth."

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JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): His clients come to him hoping he can put the genie of age back in the bottle.

DR. VINCENT GIAMPAPA, COSMETIC SURGEON: Rub it up and down the inside of your cheek.

BELLINI: Dr. Vincent Giampapa helps them rub a swab the right way for his new treatment, personal DNA analysis.

GIAMPAPA: Your genetic deck of cards are basically held right in here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Wow.

GIAMPAPA: And in the next couple of weeks, next two weeks we'll have that report back.

BELLINI: The report purports to tell customers what vitamins and nutritional supplements will help at the cellular level to prevent aging. He then recommends an individualized vitamin cocktail.

GIAMPAPA: Everybody who takes this program can actually watch the damage rates go down, the free radical levels go down.

BELLINI (on camera): Does it work?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have complete faith.

BELLINI (voice-over): Dr. Giampapa brought in his true followers.

(on camera): Do you think that you've managed to stop the clock?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: God controls the clock. I think what we've managed to do is perhaps slow down our physical aging process.

BELLINI (voice-over): But critics disagree.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If it was possible to actually do a personal DNA analysis and provide some sort of intervention, then everyone in the world would be doing this, and we would all live much, much longer lives.

BELLINI: Barbara Royce says her husband did the accounting.

BARBARA ROYCE, SURACELL CLIENT: He says maybe it's like 12,000 a year. So I don't know if it is, because I don't keep track of it, but he says -- and I told him, I said, I know I feel better. And he says, well, you are in a better mood.

BELLINI: The American Medical Association recommends all adults take supplements to help prevent chronic diseases. Multivitamins designed for children, adults and seniors. Can expensive boutique vitamin formulas help you live any longer? Modern medical science doesn't have the answer.

Jason Bellini, CNN, New York.

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COLLINS: Joining me now from Los Angeles, anti-aging guru and dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone, who says what you eat can make you younger. He's the author of "The Perricone Promise," the number one new book on Amazon.com.

Thanks for being with us. Let me ask you, you stated this is like a facelift in the fridge, that's how you bill your diet. You say you can take 10 years off in less than a month. How?

DR. NICHOLAS PERRICONE, AUTHOR, "THE PERRICONE PROMISE": Well, the important thing to understand is that food is a very powerful medicine in its own right, and that if we learn the right kinds of foods, we can actually slow down the aging process.

Now, let me explain something. When I'm talking about aging, I think that at the basis of aging is a low-grade inflammation. We can't see it, we can't feel it. We're not talking about a bright red sunburn here. We're talking about something that's on a microscopic level. And I found that foods can either be pro-inflammatory, or increase the aging process, or anti-inflammatory. So the important thing is just to learn the foods that are anti-inflammatory, and eliminate those foods that are pro-inflammatory.

COLLINS: But what do you base your theories on? What scientific studies? Because some critics argue that there are no definitive studies to back up those claims. In fact, let me read you one thing here. A couple of medical doctors are saying this -- "there's no evidence that supplementing an already adequate diet would prevent inflammation. Nor is there evidence that inflammation causes wrinkles." What do you say to that? PERRICONE: Well, first of all, I'm not talking about supplements right now, I'm talking about foods, and secondly I think there's pretty good evidence from a number of studies that foods can actually affect how skin wrinkles. And I think there are some retrospective studies, and they're very excellent, so the doctors haven't read the literature.

But the thing is, we're just talking about a very kind of moderate diet, balanced, fresh fruits and vegetables, lots of fresh fish, and we not only increase inflammation in the skin and decrease our chance of having wrinkles, but decrease our risk of cardiovascular disease and other problems.

COLLINS: All right, so let's talk about these foods. What foods are we talking about specifically? I know there's a lot of fish.

PERRICONE: Yes. Like to have fresh fish every day, and certainly I recommend wild Alaskan salmon. Some fish have problems with toxins. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Look for bright colors. If you see bright colors, it means there are anti-oxidants present in that food, and anti-oxidants act as natural anti-inflammatories. So what I say here is moderation.

COLLINS: Let's go back to the fish for just a minute. We do hear a lot about mercury in these fish. If you eat too much fish, mercury can be a problem. You agree?

PERRICONE: Yes, I do. And therefore, that's why I recommend something like wild Alaskan salmon, where there's very low if non- existent levels of toxins. We have to be moderate, once again. Any diet that says cut out all carbohydrates or have all protein or have no fats, red flags should come up. We're talking about moderation.

But understand that sugar and starches raise blood sugar rapidly, cause an insulin response, and increase inflammation, increasing your risk of age-related diseases and wrinkles.

COLLINS: OK, besides the 28-day plan, there's also a three-day diet that you offer. It seems pretty hard, though, to believe that three days can actually make a difference. What changes do you really see in just three days?

PERRICONE: The changes are actually very dramatic. What you'll see is decreased inflammation under the eyes, decreased puffiness, increased radiance of the skin and increased tone. It's so obvious, that it can be photographed. You can walk into a room and people say, what have you done, and that's just in three days.

COLLINS: All right. If you had to give one piece of advice for those who are really not ready to radically change their eating habits, is there one thing you can tell us to improve your diet and beat this aging battle?

PERRICONE: One thing I recommend is just to stop drinking coffee and add green tea. If you just substitute green tea for coffee and do nothing else, you will lose 10 pounds in six weeks and you will feel better.

COLLINS: You heard it here. We have this on tape, you know. Dr. Nicholas Perricone, thanks for your time.

PERRICONE: Thank you.

COLLINS: 360 yet -- next. Yet another celebrity sex tape. And a 360 plea. Please, just stop recording.

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COLLINS: It's not too often that we here at 360 send a message directly to the rich and famous, but tonight we feel one is called for. We feel it's our job, no, our duty to reach out and ask celebrities to please, please stop the sex tape insanity. Inside the box. Anderson Cooper reports.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Gary Sheffield is a superstar slugger on the field. But off the field it's a plot targeting the slugger's wife that's causing a stir. Sheffield's rep says someone, actually a minister, tried to extort 20 grand from Sheffield to keep a sex tape supposedly showing Sheffield's wife, rapper R. Kelly, and another woman, well, under wraps. We don't know with certainty yet that these tapes even exist, but the story made us start to think. How can we help hapless celebs to see the sex tape thing? It's time to stop.

Celebrities, watch and learn. First, if what you're doing could be construed as criminal, catching it on tape, probably a bad idea.

Exhibit A. R. Kelly. His 2002 -- let's say -- performance video has left him charged with 21 counts of child pornography. Prosecutors said his co-star was only 14.

Exhibit B, Rob Lowe, whose sex tape with a 16-year-old got him a community service sentence and sent his career on a downhill slide. It took him a while to recover from it.

Exhibit C. Paris Hilton, a hotel heiress with a hit show. She now has two sets of sex videos among her credits. Didn't her mom tell her that every new boyfriend doesn't require a new sex tape?

The list goes on and on. Remember "Baywatch" babe Pam Anderson and her totally tattooed ex, Tommy Lee? She said the tape of her notorious sexcapade was stolen. But making it in the first place was just not a good idea.

Tonya Harding could have told you that. Her sex video with her ex-husband and co-conspirator certainly hasn't helped her boxing career.

So celebrities, please, heed our advice. Bumping and grinding on grainy video won't win fans or show off your best side. Keep your clothes on. Unless, of course, it's pivotal to the plot. (END VIDEOTAPE)

COLLINS: With the holiday season approaching, many of you will soon be searching for that perfect gift for a child. For some that could mean a stuffed toy or animal. But one company is stuffing something much different, something you can't see and would never, ever want to touch. CNN's Jeanne Moos has more.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): People usually try to avoid the flu. But these folks are cooing over the virus.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the black death. That's the sleeping sickness.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is hepatitis? Don't you have anything good in there?

MOOS: Kissing disease.

Gross.

Kissing disease is the only microbe with eyelashes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They're actually, though, anatomically correct except for the eyes.

MOOS: Note the resemblance to the actual microbe. Here's the bacterium that causes earaches. And this is the shigella bacterium. You probably know it as...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stomach ache.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ooh. I've had that last night.

MOOS: The stuffed flesh eating disease microbe looks just like the real thing except for the knife and fork. The ulcer microbe is so cute it's fit for a kid. You can bombard them with the flu. Bounce hepatitis off them.

There are a total of 21 giant microbes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ebola does extremely well.

MOOS: Did he say...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ebola. Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, no.

MOOS: The diabolical mind behind the giant microbes is an attorney and writer named Andrew Oliver.

Do you imagine little kids going to bed with, you know, say, the sore throat? ANDREW OLIVER, CEO, GIANT MICROBES: No. It's not so much that as that if a child is sick the parent will get it for them.

MOOS: That's Oliver's daughter transfixed by the bad breath microbe. What started as an educational item has become a novelty gift.

Now, would you give this to your kid or your grandkid or anything?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. They're ugly.

MOOS: But kids send in fan letters, always suggesting new microbes. Chicken pox, diarrhea, meningitis, acne. Adults were less specific.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The cootie bug.

MOOS: Actually, the next microbes are likely to be...

OLIVER: Things like syphilis and herpes.

MOOS: Sort of makes the flu seem innocent.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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COLLINS: I don't feel so good.

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COLLINS: Time now for the answers to today's 360 challenge. Number one, how many former U.S. presidents attended the dedication of the Clinton library? Answer, three.

The journalists found in contempt for not revealing his sources faces up to how many months in prison? Six months.

And how many Sirius satellite radio boomboxes did shock jock Howard Stern hand out today? 500.

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HEIDI COLLINS, HOST: New concerns of a potentially increasing nuclear threat from Iran.
360 starts right now.

The comeback kid is showered with rain and salutes as his presidential library opens with star power and presidents.

The FDA and pharmaceutical companies, a sweet relationship some believe may be a bitter pill, especially when it concerns your health.

In-your-face ads about screening for prostate cancer. Does the message go too far?

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HOWARD STERN, TALK SHOW HOST: ... the death of the FCC...

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COLLINS: Shock jock Howard Stern declares the death of the FCC and gives away free stuff. Is it just a stunt, or is this a man on a mission?

More and more Americans addicted to lust. The multibillion- dollar porn industry easily accessible any time of day. What you can do to break free.

And our special series, Eternal Youth: America's Obsession with Staying Young. Tonight, I'll ask Dr. Nicholas Perricone if the fountain of youth can be found in a diet.

ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.

COLLINS: Good evening again, everybody.

Not very long ago, the suspicion that Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons was enough to send this country to war. So what to do now about Iran, and what departing Secretary of State Colin Powell says may be happening there?

CNN national correspondent David Ensor reports on this controversy.

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DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At issue is whether Iran is already working on designs for a nuclear warhead that could sit on top of this, the new Shahab-3 missile, tested in October, and designed to hit targets within 2,000 kilometers, or about 1,200 miles.

On his way to Chile, Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters he has seen new intelligence suggesting Iran may be working not only on how to enrich uranium to bomb grade, but also, quote, "on delivery systems."

"I'm talking," said Powell, "about information that says that they not only had these missiles, but I'm aware of information that suggests they were working hard as to how to put the two together."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's another piece of the puzzle. It is -- it deals with the issue of not necessarily the development of weapons of mass destruction, but the development of delivery systems.

DAVID ALBRIGHT, INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: You'd have to do a lot of engineering feats in order to be at the point of making a missile carry a nuclear warhead.

ENSOR: The problem for the Bush administration, though, is credibility. After sending Powell to the U.N. with intelligence on Iraq's weapons, much of which now appears to have been wrong, will the world take what it is saying seriously this time?

ALBRIGHT: The United States has been accusing Iran of having an active nuclear weapons program for years, and the information often has been ambiguous, or, in some cases, not very good. And so I think that if this information is actionable and is credible, then I would use it to confront the Iranians, not to just walk away from the deal.

ENSOR: The deal in question is the one agreed in principle by three European governments and Iran. Iran would suspend uranium enrichment and allow inspections in exchange for trade and respectability.

(on camera): Many U.S. officials are highly suspicious that Iran would simply use the deal to buy time to make nuclear weapons.

David Ensor, CNN, Washington.

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COLLINS: It was a big day in Little Rock, even with the rain. The current president and all his living predecessors except Gerald Ford were on hand in Arkansas today for the official opening of the William Jefferson Clinton Library. The modernistic library itself is a flashy affair, and there was a pretty fair amount of human flash in evidence too.

CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley reports.

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SINGERS (singing): ... when the rain comes, when the rain comes...

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The weather was completely miserable, wet, cold, and windy. But how many times can you see Bono and four U.S. presidents in the same place?

FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER: ... that at the end of a very difficult political year -- more difficult for some of us than others -- it is valuable for the world to see two Democrats and two Republicans assembled together, all honoring the great nation that has permitted us to serve.

CROWLEY: It was like a meeting of the world's most elite, most unlikely club, gathered to fete one of its own, part high ceremony, part Rotary Club.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A fellow in Saline County was asked by his son why he liked Governor Clinton so much. He said, Son, he'll look you in the eye, he'll shake your hand, he'll hold your baby, he'll pet your dog, all at the same time.

FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH: Simply put, he was a natural, and he made it look too easy. And oh, how I hated him for that.

CROWLEY: The natural, looking pale and smaller since heart surgery, is still the master politician, sweetened now by the touch of an elder statesman.

FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: As I once said to a friend of mine about three days before the election -- and I heard all these terrible things -- I said, You know, am I the only person in the entire United States of America who likes both George W. Bush and John Kerry, who believes they're both good people, who believes they both love our country, and they just see the world differently?

CROWLEY: He has put together the biggest, most expensive presidential library yet, filled with more objects, more paperwork than any previous administration. It is so very Bill Clinton.

SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D), NEW YORK: The building is like my husband. It's open, it's expansive, it's welcoming, it's filled with light.

CROWLEY: Candy Crowley, CNN, Little Rock.

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COLLINS: Seriously, though, what was the backup plan for the rain?

Anyway, on to other topics today.

Today in Providence, Rhode Island, a veteran television journalist found himself in court, not to cover a verdict, but to have one pronounced on him.

Deborah Feyerick reports on the case of Jim Taricani.

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DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Calling the guilty verdict an assault on journalistic freedom, investigative reporter Jim Taricani said he'd continue protecting the identity of his source.

JOSEPH CAVANAUGH, FIRST AMENDMENT ATTORNEY: "I made a promise to my source, which I intend to keep."

FEYERICK: A federal judge finding that promise directly defies a court order, one requiring the reporter to divulge who gave him a copy of an FBI surveillance tape.

CAVANAUGH: "But when people are afraid, a promise of confidentiality may be the only way to get the information to the public... "

FEYERICK: The tape shows a top aide to the former Providence, Rhode Island, mayor taking a cash bribe inside City Hall. Both men would later be found guilty of corruption. But at the time the tape aired on the local NBC station, everyone involved in the case was under a gag order, the judge saying he didn't object to airing the tape, he objected that someone had broken the law by giving it to the reporter in the first place.

Rhode Island legal expert Edward Roy.

EDWARD ROY, FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER: It is extremely rare, I think, for someone to have defied a court order as Mr. Taricani did, although I think the difference in this context is, from what I understand, his argument is that he was basing it on his First Amendment rights as a journalist.

FEYERICK: Taricani is one of a dozen reporters around the country risking fines or prison for not revealing sources. Others are under investigation for source leaks concerning former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee and outed CIA agent Valerie Plame. Free speech experts say prosecuting journalists could have a chilling effect.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's an important element of the First Amendment that's being infringed, and that is the ability to gather information.

FEYERICK (on camera): Taricani has paid $85,000 in fines. Those fines and his legal fees are being covered by his network. He faces up to six months in prison when he's sentenced in December and is now deciding whether to appeal. Because he received a heart transplant several years ago, his big concern is the impact prison might have on his health.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, Providence, Rhode Island.

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COLLINS: A possible new case of mad cow disease in the U.S. That tops our look at stories cross-country.

The initial test for mad cow disease was inconclusive on the animal in question. Officials aren't saying where the cow was located. Tissue samples are undergoing further analysis, though. Results expected within the next seven days. The USDA says the animal never entered the food chain, so there's no need to worry.

Washington, D.C., Condoleezza Rice to have minor surgery. Tomorrow doctors will block arteries to noncancerous fibroid tumors. The national security adviser and secretary of state nominee expected to be back at work Monday.

Broward County, Florida, taser fallout. A police officer quits after an investigation found he lied about using a taser on a handcuffed man in a holding cell. The whole thing caught on camera and showed the officer hit the man with 50,000 volts after he sat down, not while he was kicking and screaming, as he said.

Near Austin, Texas, dramatic high-water rescue. Look at this. Firefighters used a ladder to get this woman out of rushing flood waters. Her car got carried into the creek during a rainstorm. Luckily, though, she was not hurt.

And Parkland, Florida, guy lassos gator. The six-foot reptilian had been stalking a neighborhood for weeks. After fish and game wouldn't help, the man took matters into his own hands with bravery and success.

And that's a look at stories cross-country tonight.

360 next, Howard Stern says down with the FCC and puts his money where his mouth is. Find out why he's calling it the death of commercial radio.

Plus, shock ads for men. A controversial campaign to get men screened for prostate cancer.

Also tonight, who's minding the store? The FDA accused of being too cozy with drug companies. We'll take a closer look at the decisions that affect your health.

But first, your picks, the most popular stories on CNN.com right now.

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COLLINS: It's round, oh, say, 112 or so between Howard Stern and the FCC. Today the shock jock declared the death of his regulating rival as he gave out hundreds of dollars' worth of free gifts to his fans. On a stage adorned with American flags, as Ozzy Osbourne music blared, Stern distributed some 500 Sirius Satellite Radio boomboxes and thousands of certificates for free radios. Stern is planning to take his show to Sirius in 2006 because of his frequent run-ins with the FCC.

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STERN: I want you to experience radio the way I think it should be, the future of radio. Sirius Satellite Radio will dominate the medium. It is the death of FM radio, the death of the FCC interference, the death of the FCC. Down with the FCC! They have ruined commercial broadcasting.

Twenty years ago I got into the business. Radio sucked. I came on the scene. I went out and I made a different kind of radio. And the FCC is dismantling it. It isn't right. It's going to stop. Satellite radio is the future.

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COLLINS: Of course, not everyone agrees with Stern's opinions on the FCC, and his actions do come with a price. Stern's fans will have to shell out 13 bucks a month to hear him on satellite radio.

Of course, Howard Stern isn't the only one who's had run-ins with the FCC. Just yesterday, FCC chairman Michael Powell criticized ABC for showing a little skin during a skit before "Monday Night Football."

Today the man who appeared in the clip alongside the "Desperate Housewives" stars responded to the controversy. Terrell Owens of the Philadelphia Eagles said he's sorry the skit offended people, but he also says he didn't realize it would create such a backlash.

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TERRELL OWENS, PHILADELPHIA EAGLES: I don't think it's any different than little kids watching "South Park" or "King of the Hill," things of those nature. And, you know, obviously, everybody knows the contents that's surrounded by those shows. So my thing is, what's the difference?

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COLLINS: Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb also expressed the same sentiment. He says people are overreacting.

Like the ABC controversy, a new ad campaign is also generating plenty of heat. The message behind the advertising blitz is an important one. It's about cancer. But it's being delivered with a shock value that some may find extreme and explicit.

CNN's Adaora Udoji reports.

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ADAORA UDOJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even along a busy Manhattan street, the posters stand out. Over a picture of a nude man, one asks, "what do we have to do to remind you to get a prostate screening? Tie a ribbon on it?" JULIE LEWIT-NUREMBERG, BLUE RIBBON PROSTATE INITIATIVE: They're intended to be shocking, because this is not the time to be bashful and reticent, especially when it comes to saving men's lives.

UDOJI: President of the Blue Ribbon Prostate Initiative, Julie Lewit-Nuremberg says people must understand 230,000 men are newly diagnosed, and 30,000 die of prostate cancer, every year. Determined to change that, the magazine veteran developed an ad campaign. The first one ran in "O"'s September issue. And the response, she says, was immediate. A thousand men and women, mostly women, called for information.

LEWIT-NUREMBERG: Men do not go to the doctor unless somebody literally says to them, OK, honey, you're going, and you're going right now.

UDOJI: Ads are also planned in half a dozen upcoming national magazines.

(on camera): Then there are these street posters. She says 130 have been put up the past two months here in New York City, with more planned across the country next year.

(voice-over): Some from New York's Conservative Party applaud the goal, but say ads like this go too far. It reads, "Finally, it pays to think with your (expletive deleted)."

MIKE ONG, NEW YORK CONSERVATIVE PARTY: I think what they're really doing here is shock value. It's outrageous that they go to the lowest level trying to appeal to someone, to get someone's attention.

UDOJI: Lewit-Nuremberg respectfully disagrees. She says little else seems to work, and she's determined to see prostate cancer death rates decline.

Adaora Udoji, CNN, New York.

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COLLINS: Thousands of insurgents killed in fighting in Falluja. That tops our look at global stories in the uplink.

A U.S. commander says 51 U.S. soldiers have been killed since the offensive to retake Falluja began. About 425 troops have been wounded. The military estimates some 1,200 insurgents were killed in the battles there.

London, England, unity for peace. French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair says they're putting aside their differences on Iraq and are calling for stability there. Chirac is on a two-day visit to the U.K.

Madrid, Spain, a racially abusive crowd. Britain is seeking action from Spain after the crowd at a soccer match in Madrid turned ugly yesterday. The fans mocked England's black soccer players and even made monkey noises when those players touched the ball. England's soccer program is filing formal complaints to soccer organizers and the Spanish Federation.

And that's tonight's uplink.

360 next, addicted to porn, the multibillion-dollar industry. Find out why some people just can't seem to stop looking, even if it is ruining their lives.

Also tonight, the FDA. Is it looking out for your health, or the profits of drug companies? We're covering all sides of the debate that's heating up on Capitol Hill.

And a little later, kissing the cabinet nominees. Women get extra attention. Double standards in the corridors of power, that's raw politics.

Plus, in a moment, today's 360 challenge. How closely have you been following today's news?

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COLLINS: It took a fraction of a second for a Google search to come up with 233 million hits for the word "porn." Clearly, porn is popular. But is it addictive? Some psychologists think so, insisting it has a profound effect on the brain, making addicts coast to coast do just about anything to get their fix.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was just at the bank, and there was this really hot teller, and she didn't ask me to go do it with her in the vault.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Same kind of thing happened to me. Woman pizza delivery guy comes over, gives me the pizza, takes the money, and leaves.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what? We have to turn off the porn.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COLLINS (voice-over): But turning off the porn is not what America is doing. In blue states and red states too, some believe the nation has a porn problem big enough for the Senate to hold a hearing today to try to understand the roots of porn addiction.

Experts say it is difficult to know exactly how prevalent porn addiction is. Figures are scarce, and testimony hard to get. Yet many agree...

DOUG WEISS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, HEART TO HEART COUNSELING CENTER: Pornography addiction is hugely on the rise. What we're seeing is almost epidemic, not only in the older generation going back to pornography, you know, when they watched it when they were young guys, but we're also seeing the young men, 12, 13, 14, handing out CDs and DVDs to each other like toys.

COLLINS: A recent survey of more than 17,000 Americans conducted by the journal of "Cyberpsychology and Behavior" found that 6 percent met the criteria for full-fledged porn addiction.

One reason for this boom, experts say, the availability of porn. As of July 2003, there were 260 million pages of pornography online, an increase of almost 2,000 percent since 1998. The multibillion- dollar porn industry churns out some 11,000 porn flicks a year, nearly three times the number of regular movies Hollywood produces. And there are also adult magazines in newsstands and pay-per-view programming available at home and in hotels.

WEISS: Pornography has gone mainstream. We've gone away from the dirty old man to the very -- I am very cool and socially acceptable if I have a pornography stash.

COLLINS: A stash that keeps getting bigger in American households.

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COLLINS: Joining me from Colorado Springs, Colorado, for more on pornography addiction is Doug Weiss. He's the executive director of the Heart to Heart Counseling Center.

Thanks for being with us, Mr. Weiss.

WEISS: Heidi, it's good to be here.

COLLINS: You yourself are a recovering sex addict. What role did pornography actually play in your addiction?

WEISS: Well, pornography in my life and in all my clients' life, it's foundational. All the people who come to our clinic, most of them have had years and thousands of repetitions with pornography, developing them into porn addicts.

COLLINS: But, you know, there are plenty of people out there who would say, Just turn off the TV, or stay away from the porn Web sites. They'd say there's no way it's an addiction. So how do you respond to that?

WEISS: Well, I mean, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), look at the stories you did tonight. I mean, how many of them had to do with sexual inappropriateness? I love the clips you said about, you know, the pizza girl coming in, and she didn't want to have sex. What's happened is, America has begun to believe about sexual addiction beliefs. You know, that's women are objects. They're only there.

I mean, how would you feel, as a woman, if someone just treats you like a toy, like you're supposed to come off the set and you're supposed to have sex with them because of what they've been looking on the computer?

COLLINS: Well, obviously, not very good, but if I'm not watching the TV, or if I'm not on the computer, doesn't that help to control it?

WEISS: Well, it does, except what happens is, like many men, they have stored thousands of images into their mind, their own personal hard drive. They don't need a computer. And they can go to the fantasy world and elicit the same neurochemical responses as if they were watching television. Your brain cannot distinguish between a real and imaginary picture. There's lots of research that shows that.

COLLINS: You know, you do hear a lot about drug addicts, or alcoholics. They sometimes end up selling pretty much everything they own to get their next fix. The drugs oftentimes become more important than the people that they love. Does it work the same with pornography?

WEISS: Oh, yes. I've had guys sell their cars, sell their houses, leave their wives, all kind of stories that would make you just kind of cringe, for more pornography, more strippers, or whatever the thing is.

Pornography is a real issue for men. Once it gets its hook inside of you, oftentimes you don't even believe you can get well, you can stop. And you can. I've been free for 17 years. People call our office and fly all over the country to get here. You can get free.

And you know, really, you make a lot more money, your relationships are happier, you're not as isolated, you're not as depressed. There's a lot of symptoms that go along with being a sex addict.

COLLINS: Well, try to put it a little bit in perspective for us. What is the difference, then, between a porn addict and somebody who simply watches porn?

WEISS: Well, a porn addict is going to use pornography much like an alcoholic or drug addict, Heidi. They're going to, when they feel down, they're going to go to it. When they want to celebrate, they want to go to it. It becomes their best friend. They've tried to stop hundreds of times, say, That's ridiculous, I'm going to stop this, and they keep going back to it. They begin to socially isolate. Sometimes they go to more or more bizarre types of pornography to satisfy their porn addiction.

So the porn addict knows they're addicted. They know they're struggling. They know they're incongruent, oftentimes.

COLLINS: From Colorado Springs, Colorado, tonight, Doug Weiss. Thanks for your insight.

WEISS: Thank you, Heidi.

COLLINS: The FDA and pharmaceutical companies, a sweet relationship some believe may be a bitter pill, especially when it concerns your health.

And our special series, Eternal Youth: America's Obsession with Staying Young. Tonight I'll ask Dr. Nicholas Perricone if the fountain of youth can be found in a diet.

360 continues.

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COLLINS: In the last 10 years the FDA has approved about 1,000 or so new drugs. But today lawmakers turned the microscope on the FDA itself. Over concerns that the agency did not act fast enough to pull Vioxx off the market. The painkiller was recalled in September because of heart risks. And while the FDA defended its actions regarding Vioxx today, critics are charging the agency has become too cozy with the industry it's supposed to regulate.

More now from CNN's Allan Chernoff.

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ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A Congressional grilling of the food and drug administration.

SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R), IOWA: One of my concerns is that the FDA has a relationship with drug companies that is far too cozy. That's exactly the opposite of what it should be. The health and safety of the public must be FDA's first and only concern.

CHERNOFF: How things change. At the height of the AIDS epidemic more than a dozen years ago the FDA was under attack for being too tough on pharmaceutical companies, blocking them from delivering new remedies to the market. Congress responded by arranging for the industry to help pay for a bigger FDA staff to review new drugs. The FDA in turn began working hand in hand with pharmaceutical firms.

DR. KENNETH KAITIN, TUFTS CSOD: And they're helping companies put together their new drug application, which is required for approval, in a more reliable consistent fashion.

CHERNOFF: The more cooperative relationship accelerated approval of new treatments for AIDS and cancer, but recently it has also resulted in what critics say is easier policing of the industry. Fewer warning labels, fewer drugs forced off the market.

DR. SANDRA KWEDER, FDA: It can't be both ways. We can't have fewer drug withdrawals being a reflection of a cozier relationship with industry and too many drug withdrawals as evidence of same.

CHERNOFF: Now, however, with dangerous drugs such as Vioxx having remained on the market, the public mood is shifting.

(on camera): It is a challenge to find the appropriate balance between the promise of new medicines and their potential dangers. Now after the Vioxx scandal, scientists predict the FDA will swing back to more cautious oversight of the pharmaceutical industry.

Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE) COLLINS: So is the FDA too cozy with drug companies, or is it on the right track?

We're covering all the angles tonight. So let's bring in representative Henry Waxman, ranking Democrat on the government Reform Committee, and representative John Mica, a Republican also on the Reform Committee.

Gentlemen, thanks so much for being here tonight.

REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D), Thank you.

REP. JOHN MICA (R), FLORIDA: Pleasure to be with you.

COLLINS: Congressman Mica, I want to begin with you. The FDA has received about $1 billion in the last 10 years or so from pharmaceutical companies that it is actually supposed to regulate.

Do you think that poses any kind of conflict of interest?

MICA: Well, I think that it's important that drug companies share some of the burden for research and also some of the costs, but we do have to keep a very close eye on the relation relationship between the regulator and the regulated.

COLLINS: Interesting what we heard on this story preceding you. You can't have it both ways. You can't get down on the FDA for saying too many recalls, can't get down on them for saying not enough.

MICA: That's right. Congress actually in response to the AIDS epidemic loosened some of their requirements, but there has to be a clear balance.

COLLINS: But Congressman Waxman, let me get to you now. The infusion of money from the pharmaceuticals have shortened the average FDA drug approval, I believe it used to be 32 months, it's now down to 13 months.

So isn't that reduced time frame in the public's best interest?

WAXMAN: The public wants drugs approved and out as fast as possible, and the FDA is under a lot of pressure to get drugs approved and marketed quickly. But the other side of that is there are problems with drugs that they don't find out about in advance and they're not doing a very good job of oversight on post-marketing. And we need much more surveillance. The Vioxx is a good example. The FDA had some hints of problems, that the problems, however, didn't start developing until large numbers of people used the drug. But FDA didn't push for more studies by Merck. Merck didn't do these studies.

COLLINS: So, you're talking about follow up, more follow up.

WAXMAN: The follow up. And if we're going to have a fast approval process, we have to have even a stronger follow up. But FDA is failing its job in a number of areas. They're not doing the follow up. They're not doing the oversight. They're not enforcing the rules. They let Vioxx make claims for their drugs that shouldn't have been allowed. And they marketed it so aggressively without knowing all the risks.

COLLINS: All right, well, let's get something in "The Washington Post" today. Congressman Mica, go ahead and listen to this and tell me what you think on the back side today. "Washington Post" today wrote this, "The decrease in FDA enforcement has come despite a steadily rising number of reports of potentially harmful side effects from approved drugs. From 1996 to 2004 the annual number of these adverse effects almost doubled."

What do you say to that?

MICA: Well, again, we had the pressure from the public, we had the pressure from interest groups like AIDS to move this process forward. People want cure -- miracle drugs as soon as possible. I think I agree with Mr. Waxman that it's important that we strike a balance, that we move the process forward but that FDA does an adequate job of oversight and regulation. Now, by the same token sometimes when we overregulate we end up outsourcing or forcing production overseas like we've seen with the flu vaccine.

COLLINS: But you say adequate. Is that good enough?

And Congressman Waxman, to you now, whose responsibility is it to get safe drugs on the market?

WAXMAN: Well, I think it's the Food and Drug Administration's responsibility. They're supposed to assure the public that when a drug is permitted to be marketed it has been carefully scrutinized to be safe and effective. And they do that initially before it's approved, but they've got to follow up after the drug's already on the market. And the drug companies like Merck had no incentive to do the studies to really find out whether there are cardiovascular stroke and heart disease problems resulting from their drug, and they promoted it as if there were no problems.

Now, yesterday we had a hearing where the FDA didn't do its job on policing the vaccine manufacturer, that then ended up not being able to produce half the vaccine supply for flu in this country. So FDA is really not doing its job adequately.

COLLINS: To the both of you tonight, we certainly appreciate your time in the discussion. Representative Henry Waxman and Representative John Mica. Gentlemen, thanks.

MICA: Thank you.

WAXMAN: Thanks.

COLLINS: Down Pennsylvania avenue at the White House this week, after the president announced two cabinet picks, he gave a couple of pecks. It's nice to see the president show some compassion toward his staff, but his affection seems a bit stronger with the women. Do you remember Donald Rumsfeld getting a smooch when he was nominated four years ago, we don't think so. Sure, a kiss may be just a kiss, but then again, it could also be something else, perhaps a bit of "Raw Politics."

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COLLINS (voice-over): The president proudly presented his nominee for secretary of state, old friend and confidant Condoleezza Rice. Then he sealed his glowing statement with a kiss. And a few days later he kicked the kissing up a notch when the nominee for education secretary, Margaret Spellings, took the stage, and he got her smack on the lips. So what's going on here? is the president becoming a little bit more continental or is it something more sinister beneath the surface?

DONNA BRAZILE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, you know, it's part of the southern culture and southern hospitality to always greet friends with a handshake or a hug or a kiss, and it's quite American in many ways that the president would continue those traditions.

COLLINS: But there are other sometimes unsettling signs that we might be taking a step backward in the hard-fought battle against sexism. Bush adviser Karl Rove had no qualms talking about his history with Margaret Spellings, telling the "Houston chronicle" How she turned him down for a date in the '80s. Quote, "Brutally. It has taken my ego decades to recover." And listen to CNN's Wolf Blitzer stating Condi Rice's resume on the air.

Condoleezza Rice, 50-years-old, a former provost at Stanford University out in California. She's single.

COLLINS: Or South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings on his female colleagues in his final speech from the Senate floor.

SEN. FRITZ HOLLINGS (D), SOUTH CAROLINA: Now we've got 15 or 17, and you can't shut them up.

COLLINS: So are we seeing a relaxing of the rules that could lead to a loss of respect for women in the workplace?

BRAZILE: I think we need to get back to some form of decorum in how we talk about things in the public.

COLLINS: So maybe a kiss is just a kiss. But in the corridors of power, every word, every nuance, draws attention to the sensitivity of sexual "Raw Politics."

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COLLINS: 360 next, can what you eat keep you young? An anti- aging guru says the fountain of youth may be in your refrigerator.

And in a moment, today's "360 Challenge." How closely have you been following today's news? Find out next.

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COLLINS: Time now for today's 360 challenge. Be the first to answer all three questions correctly, and win a free 360 t-shirt.

No. 1, how many former U.S. presidents attended the dedication of the Clinton library?

The journalist found in contempt for not revealing his source faces up to how many months in prison?

And how many Sirius Satellite Radio boom boxes did shock jock Howard Stern hand out today?

To take the challenge, log on to cnn.com/360. Then click on the answer link. Answer first, you get the shirt. Find out last night's challenge winner and tonight's answers coming up.

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COLLINS: These days in the quest to look younger, you can go under the knife for facelifts, or the needle for Botox. Others, though, as hoping to find youth in a bottle. CNN's Jason Bellini explains as we continue our series, "Eternal Youth."

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JASON BELLINI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): His clients come to him hoping he can put the genie of age back in the bottle.

DR. VINCENT GIAMPAPA, COSMETIC SURGEON: Rub it up and down the inside of your cheek.

BELLINI: Dr. Vincent Giampapa helps them rub a swab the right way for his new treatment, personal DNA analysis.

GIAMPAPA: Your genetic deck of cards are basically held right in here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Wow.

GIAMPAPA: And in the next couple of weeks, next two weeks we'll have that report back.

BELLINI: The report purports to tell customers what vitamins and nutritional supplements will help at the cellular level to prevent aging. He then recommends an individualized vitamin cocktail.

GIAMPAPA: Everybody who takes this program can actually watch the damage rates go down, the free radical levels go down.

BELLINI (on camera): Does it work?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have complete faith.

BELLINI (voice-over): Dr. Giampapa brought in his true followers.

(on camera): Do you think that you've managed to stop the clock?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: God controls the clock. I think what we've managed to do is perhaps slow down our physical aging process.

BELLINI (voice-over): But critics disagree.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If it was possible to actually do a personal DNA analysis and provide some sort of intervention, then everyone in the world would be doing this, and we would all live much, much longer lives.

BELLINI: Barbara Royce says her husband did the accounting.

BARBARA ROYCE, SURACELL CLIENT: He says maybe it's like 12,000 a year. So I don't know if it is, because I don't keep track of it, but he says -- and I told him, I said, I know I feel better. And he says, well, you are in a better mood.

BELLINI: The American Medical Association recommends all adults take supplements to help prevent chronic diseases. Multivitamins designed for children, adults and seniors. Can expensive boutique vitamin formulas help you live any longer? Modern medical science doesn't have the answer.

Jason Bellini, CNN, New York.

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COLLINS: Joining me now from Los Angeles, anti-aging guru and dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone, who says what you eat can make you younger. He's the author of "The Perricone Promise," the number one new book on Amazon.com.

Thanks for being with us. Let me ask you, you stated this is like a facelift in the fridge, that's how you bill your diet. You say you can take 10 years off in less than a month. How?

DR. NICHOLAS PERRICONE, AUTHOR, "THE PERRICONE PROMISE": Well, the important thing to understand is that food is a very powerful medicine in its own right, and that if we learn the right kinds of foods, we can actually slow down the aging process.

Now, let me explain something. When I'm talking about aging, I think that at the basis of aging is a low-grade inflammation. We can't see it, we can't feel it. We're not talking about a bright red sunburn here. We're talking about something that's on a microscopic level. And I found that foods can either be pro-inflammatory, or increase the aging process, or anti-inflammatory. So the important thing is just to learn the foods that are anti-inflammatory, and eliminate those foods that are pro-inflammatory.

COLLINS: But what do you base your theories on? What scientific studies? Because some critics argue that there are no definitive studies to back up those claims. In fact, let me read you one thing here. A couple of medical doctors are saying this -- "there's no evidence that supplementing an already adequate diet would prevent inflammation. Nor is there evidence that inflammation causes wrinkles." What do you say to that? PERRICONE: Well, first of all, I'm not talking about supplements right now, I'm talking about foods, and secondly I think there's pretty good evidence from a number of studies that foods can actually affect how skin wrinkles. And I think there are some retrospective studies, and they're very excellent, so the doctors haven't read the literature.

But the thing is, we're just talking about a very kind of moderate diet, balanced, fresh fruits and vegetables, lots of fresh fish, and we not only increase inflammation in the skin and decrease our chance of having wrinkles, but decrease our risk of cardiovascular disease and other problems.

COLLINS: All right, so let's talk about these foods. What foods are we talking about specifically? I know there's a lot of fish.

PERRICONE: Yes. Like to have fresh fish every day, and certainly I recommend wild Alaskan salmon. Some fish have problems with toxins. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Look for bright colors. If you see bright colors, it means there are anti-oxidants present in that food, and anti-oxidants act as natural anti-inflammatories. So what I say here is moderation.

COLLINS: Let's go back to the fish for just a minute. We do hear a lot about mercury in these fish. If you eat too much fish, mercury can be a problem. You agree?

PERRICONE: Yes, I do. And therefore, that's why I recommend something like wild Alaskan salmon, where there's very low if non- existent levels of toxins. We have to be moderate, once again. Any diet that says cut out all carbohydrates or have all protein or have no fats, red flags should come up. We're talking about moderation.

But understand that sugar and starches raise blood sugar rapidly, cause an insulin response, and increase inflammation, increasing your risk of age-related diseases and wrinkles.

COLLINS: OK, besides the 28-day plan, there's also a three-day diet that you offer. It seems pretty hard, though, to believe that three days can actually make a difference. What changes do you really see in just three days?

PERRICONE: The changes are actually very dramatic. What you'll see is decreased inflammation under the eyes, decreased puffiness, increased radiance of the skin and increased tone. It's so obvious, that it can be photographed. You can walk into a room and people say, what have you done, and that's just in three days.

COLLINS: All right. If you had to give one piece of advice for those who are really not ready to radically change their eating habits, is there one thing you can tell us to improve your diet and beat this aging battle?

PERRICONE: One thing I recommend is just to stop drinking coffee and add green tea. If you just substitute green tea for coffee and do nothing else, you will lose 10 pounds in six weeks and you will feel better.

COLLINS: You heard it here. We have this on tape, you know. Dr. Nicholas Perricone, thanks for your time.

PERRICONE: Thank you.

COLLINS: 360 yet -- next. Yet another celebrity sex tape. And a 360 plea. Please, just stop recording.

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COLLINS: It's not too often that we here at 360 send a message directly to the rich and famous, but tonight we feel one is called for. We feel it's our job, no, our duty to reach out and ask celebrities to please, please stop the sex tape insanity. Inside the box. Anderson Cooper reports.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Gary Sheffield is a superstar slugger on the field. But off the field it's a plot targeting the slugger's wife that's causing a stir. Sheffield's rep says someone, actually a minister, tried to extort 20 grand from Sheffield to keep a sex tape supposedly showing Sheffield's wife, rapper R. Kelly, and another woman, well, under wraps. We don't know with certainty yet that these tapes even exist, but the story made us start to think. How can we help hapless celebs to see the sex tape thing? It's time to stop.

Celebrities, watch and learn. First, if what you're doing could be construed as criminal, catching it on tape, probably a bad idea.

Exhibit A. R. Kelly. His 2002 -- let's say -- performance video has left him charged with 21 counts of child pornography. Prosecutors said his co-star was only 14.

Exhibit B, Rob Lowe, whose sex tape with a 16-year-old got him a community service sentence and sent his career on a downhill slide. It took him a while to recover from it.

Exhibit C. Paris Hilton, a hotel heiress with a hit show. She now has two sets of sex videos among her credits. Didn't her mom tell her that every new boyfriend doesn't require a new sex tape?

The list goes on and on. Remember "Baywatch" babe Pam Anderson and her totally tattooed ex, Tommy Lee? She said the tape of her notorious sexcapade was stolen. But making it in the first place was just not a good idea.

Tonya Harding could have told you that. Her sex video with her ex-husband and co-conspirator certainly hasn't helped her boxing career.

So celebrities, please, heed our advice. Bumping and grinding on grainy video won't win fans or show off your best side. Keep your clothes on. Unless, of course, it's pivotal to the plot. (END VIDEOTAPE)

COLLINS: With the holiday season approaching, many of you will soon be searching for that perfect gift for a child. For some that could mean a stuffed toy or animal. But one company is stuffing something much different, something you can't see and would never, ever want to touch. CNN's Jeanne Moos has more.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): People usually try to avoid the flu. But these folks are cooing over the virus.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's the black death. That's the sleeping sickness.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is hepatitis? Don't you have anything good in there?

MOOS: Kissing disease.

Gross.

Kissing disease is the only microbe with eyelashes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They're actually, though, anatomically correct except for the eyes.

MOOS: Note the resemblance to the actual microbe. Here's the bacterium that causes earaches. And this is the shigella bacterium. You probably know it as...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stomach ache.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ooh. I've had that last night.

MOOS: The stuffed flesh eating disease microbe looks just like the real thing except for the knife and fork. The ulcer microbe is so cute it's fit for a kid. You can bombard them with the flu. Bounce hepatitis off them.

There are a total of 21 giant microbes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ebola does extremely well.

MOOS: Did he say...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ebola. Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, no.

MOOS: The diabolical mind behind the giant microbes is an attorney and writer named Andrew Oliver.

Do you imagine little kids going to bed with, you know, say, the sore throat? ANDREW OLIVER, CEO, GIANT MICROBES: No. It's not so much that as that if a child is sick the parent will get it for them.

MOOS: That's Oliver's daughter transfixed by the bad breath microbe. What started as an educational item has become a novelty gift.

Now, would you give this to your kid or your grandkid or anything?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. They're ugly.

MOOS: But kids send in fan letters, always suggesting new microbes. Chicken pox, diarrhea, meningitis, acne. Adults were less specific.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The cootie bug.

MOOS: Actually, the next microbes are likely to be...

OLIVER: Things like syphilis and herpes.

MOOS: Sort of makes the flu seem innocent.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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COLLINS: I don't feel so good.

The 360 challenge. here's another look at tonight's questions. Have you been paying attention? Log on to CNN.com/360 and click on the answer link to play.

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COLLINS: Time now for the answers to today's 360 challenge. Number one, how many former U.S. presidents attended the dedication of the Clinton library? Answer, three.

The journalists found in contempt for not revealing his sources faces up to how many months in prison? Six months.

And how many Sirius satellite radio boomboxes did shock jock Howard Stern hand out today? 500.

The first person to answer all three questions correctly will be sent a 360 T-shirt. And tune in tomorrow to find out if you are the one. And last night's winner, Laura Austin from Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. Another 360 challenge and another chance to win tomorrow.

I'm Heidi Collins in for Anderson Cooper. He's back tomorrow. Up next, "PAULA ZAHN NOW."

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