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ANNOUNCER: You're watching CNN STUDENT NEWS seen in schools around the world because learning never stops and neither does the news.

SHELLEY WALCOTT, CO-HOST: And welcome to your Wednesday. Your midweek CNN STUDENT NEWS begins in the Middle East where violence continues to erupt.

MICHAEL MCMANUS, CO-HOST: Following that, we focus on the board room as we ask, "Who can you trust?"

WALCOTT: And later, we'll talk to a woman who's become her own brand and meet some other women on top of the business world.

MCMANUS: You're watching CNN STUDENT NEWS for Wednesday. I'm Michael McManus.

WALCOTT: And I'm Shelley Walcott.

The Bush administration is voicing concern about increasing violence and civilian casualties in the Middle East.

MCMANUS: A number of fatalities occurred yesterday in a series of attacks happening within a matter of hours. In one incident, a Palestinian opened fire on a crowded restaurant in Tel Aviv. Three people were killed. Israel has responded to the latest violence by launching air raids in the West Bank and Gaza.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who kicked off a visit to the U.S. Tuesday, is seeking to revive his nation's role as a lead Middle East peace broker.

Our Joel Hochmuth has details on his efforts and proposals.

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JOEL HOCHMUTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The ongoing cycle of violence in the Middle East has world leaders grasping for solutions. The situation topped the agenda as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and President Bush met in Washington Tuesday.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Both our countries view this situation with great alarm. We both feel deep sympathy for the people in the region who are trying to live their lives in peace.

HOSNI MUBARAK, PRESIDENT OF EGYPT: We must bring about an end to the cycle of violence and the other hostile actions and ensure the early resumption of peace negotiations. Nothing can be achieved through violence or resolved through force.

HOCHMUTH: Mubarak came to Washington with a proposal for Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to join him at a summit in Egypt to discuss ideas for peace.

BUSH: I appreciate any efforts, any ideas that will lay out a vision for a peaceful resolution. And the president's offer was a meaningful offer. And we applaud his efforts.

HOCHMUTH: Of course both Israelis and Palestinians would have to be convinced to attend. Given the current violence, that may seem like a long shot, but Egypt does have a peace agreement with Israel and Egypt has good relations with the Palestinians.

MUBARAK: That's my intention that I'm to ask Arafat and Sharon to come and sit. We're not going to solve all the problems in one day, just as a change, to change the atmosphere, to see the people, the both of sitting with each other. They have never met with each other.

HOCHMUTH: President Bush also says he supports an idea floated by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. He's proposed that all Arab states in the region recognize Israel's right to exist if Israel pulls back from the occupied territories to the borders that existed prior to the Six Day War in 1967.

The current proposals follow other agreements that are already on the table, including the plan drawn up by CIA Director George Tenet from last year. In October 2000, there was the plan drafted by an international commission headed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell. Before that, there were the Oslo Accords signed in Washington in 1993. Israel agreed to eventually withdraw troops from Gaza and the West Bank, except for the city of Hebron, and to Palestinian self-rule in those areas. That never happened. And in the wake of the current violence, that plan seems like wishful thinking.

RAANAN GISSIN, ISRAELI GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: We are willing to go back to the negotiating table, but there has to be a full commitment and action taken by the Palestinian Authority to eradicate terrorism, to dismantle the terrorist infrastructure.

YASSER ABED RABBO, PALESTINIAN MINISTER OF INFORMATION: This is not the way to deal with the Palestinian people. We are a people under occupation, and there's no people on earth today who will accept to live under occupation at all. It's our right to resist occupation, but we condemn turning this resistance into attacks against Israeli civilians.

HOCHMUTH: Each side says peace talks can't begin until the other stops the violence, but that sets up a cease-fire Catch 22 with neither side ceasing fire until the other does first.

As Jerrold Kessel reports, that internal conflict reflects a hardening of attitudes in the region.

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JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Increasingly, people on both sides saying it can't go on, but it does. Bold images of confrontation etched onto the walls and new images of confrontation a reality on the ground. Israeli police having to be on constant alert against suicide bombers in the heart of towns, Israeli troops mounting impromptu checks, even here, just down the road from the office of the speaker of the Palestinian Parliament, Yasser Arafat's political right hand man.

AHMAD QUR'EI, PALESTINIAN COUNCIL SPEAKER: It's the worst. It's very bad. Trust, no, I can say it's zero. The Palestinian don't trust the Israeli any way. The Israeli, they don't trust the Palestinians. And they build the public opinion now in a negative way. Peace becomes as a hope, it is not a reality.

KESSEL: With little hope of shifting the conflict back from confrontation to negotiation, within the Israeli leadership the division is now simply between those who say Yasser Arafat should be shoved aside and those who still want him as the point person to answer Israeli and U.S. demands that Palestinian violence be curbed.

In Israeli eyes, the Palestinian strategy is geared more and more to undermining Ariel Sharon's unity government. It's a challenge, they say on Mr. Sharon's right flank, that he must meet.

RABBI BENNI ELON, ISRAELI CABINET MINISTER: You need this unity government in order to have your people behind you. And he had it. And he's going to lose it because the people lately walking on the streets of Jerusalem and the people are expecting to this security that he promised as Phase No. 2 of the unity. And Phase No. 3, peace, who is speaking about it now?

KESSEL: Far right Israelis demonstrate outside the Prime Minister's office demanding Yasser Arafat's downfall, even going so far as to blame the Sharon government for allowing the shedding of Israeli blood. The Israeli government insisted it's acting forcefully because it says the Palestinian Authority isn't.

ZALMAN SHOVAL, ARIEL SHARON ADVISER: We're engaged in a war against terrorism. Israel actually is today the main front in the global war against terrorism. And we understand that Yasser Arafat, who heads this terrorist offensive against Israel these days, wants to sabotage the American effort against terror in the world. We will have to overcome that, and maybe the moment of truth for Arafat is rapidly approaching.

KESSEL: Palestinian militants say they'll go on battling Israelis. That's understandable, say Palestinian leaders, and they say a moment of truth for Israeli policies.

QUR'EI: There will be new leaders and you see now there are. In all the Palestinian camps, cities, towns, villages, there are new young leaders. I'm sure that the approach of all the Palestinian people with different directions, with different points of view is peace, but if the Israeli government will continue this way, the approach (UNINTELLIGIBLE), they will not be patient as we are. The vast majority of the Palestinian people want to see the Israeli real, honest intention that they want to end the occupation.

KESSEL: But while that occupation persists and the bloodletting dominates, some Palestinians exult publicly when they learn of Israeli deaths. Cheers here in a refugee camp from where one of the suicide bombers has come.

(on camera): In such a gloom and doom reality, there are those who sense a different danger, perhaps the new danger that the dominant view on both sides will be of those who believe that there may simply be no end to this conflict.

Jerrold Kessel, CNN, Jerusalem.

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MCMANUS: For more background on the Middle East conflict and the efforts toward peacekeeping, head to our Web site, that's CNNstudentnews.com. Go there and you'll also find details of a poll concerning opinions the Muslim world and the United States have toward each other.

March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down Dred Scott ruling.

WALCOTT: Latest on Enron now, company officials could start distributing $5 million in hardship aid to ex-employees by the end of the week. A judge authorized the fund which amounts to about $1,100 for each of the more than 4,500 employees laid off. Now some describe Enron's tactics as David versus Goliath, corporation insiders making off with huge sums of money while the average shareholder loses it all.

CNN's Kitty Pilgrim now on why a few were able to take the money and run.

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KITTY PILGRIM, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The inner sanctum, corporate boards. The worry is back-slapping cronyism is no way to govern a corporation.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Enron is the worst case, but I think there are many bad cases like that.

PILGRIM: The focus now is to make corporate boards more independent, outside directors who do not work for the company or benefit from other relationships, such as consulting. The trend was already in place before the Enron debacle.

NELL MINOW, THE CORPORATE LIBRARY: I think we've made some progress since the days when the CEO would go into the locker room after the golf game and see who was available, but it's still very cozy, there's still a lot of cronyism.

PILGRIM: Boards are increasingly using written guidelines for corporate governance, covering everything from corporate succession to compensation. Sixty-five percent of them had them in 1999; 69 percent in 2001, and 75 percent last year. Formal committees overseeing boards have also taken route. Sixty-five percent of companies now have them, a gain in the last two years.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan remarked in congressional testimony Enron could actually turn out to be a plus for corporate governance.

ALAN GREENSPAN, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL RESERVE: I think Enron, as I indicated to the Senate Budget Committee the other day, is not a significantly negative event to the economy, and in fact, in the longer run, its emergence may alter the way we govern corporations.

PILGRIM: Kathryn Harrigan currently serves on three boards and teaches at Columbia business school. She says boards should be aggressive in protecting shareholders.

PROF. KATHRYN HARRIGAN, COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: They should be questioning the CEO, because ultimately the board hires and fires the CEO. And they should be barbecuing that CEO regularly. And if the CEO doesn't have enough answers to give them comfort, then they should be saying there's something rotten in Denmark, and perhaps we need a fresh piece of cheese.

PILGRIM: New suggestions by corporate governance gurus include a system of self-regulation, similar to the way some financial markets self-regulate. More controversial proposals allowing shareholders to directly nominate board members. Shareholders should pick the state of incorporation.

Delaware has the best laws for protecting directors and managers, and many corporations are registered there. Institutional investors should make their votes public.

(on camera): Boards are already seeing intense public scrutiny in the post-Enron era. Not so diligent board members have been given fair warning and more conscientious board members are likely to react also, scrutinizing their peers. The climate may not be quite as cozy at the next corporate meeting.

Kitty Pilgrim, CNN Financial News, New York.

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MCMANUS: A month ago if I mentioned Sarah Hughes most of you would have said who. What a difference an Olympic gold medal makes. Ever since she skated flawlessly to capture the women's gold medal in skating, she is everywhere. Hughes is on the Wheaties box, went to the Grammys and even rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange this week, as you see here. She may be a star now, but we took a look at her life shortly before she struck gold.

Here now a CNN people report filed just before the Olympic Games.

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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At 16, Sarah Hughes is about to get a crash course in maturity. That's because she's about to collide with the dream she has had all of her short life.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I started skating when I was four, between four and five, and then one day to get a gold medal. I can't wait for that to happen.

SARAH HUGHES, FIGURE SKATER: When I skate, I feel a sense of freedom, like I can do anything. And when you have days where you feel really good, I feel like I'm unstoppable and I can just do anything.

MATTINGLY: But this is the Olympics, her first Olympics. She will face 24 of the world's best, representing 16 countries, all skating for that coveted gold medal, including Olympic Silver Medalist and six-time national champion, Michelle Kwan.

JOHN HUGHES, FATHER: Sarah has a deep respect for Michelle and for her skating, but I think at this point, Sarah believes that she's competitive with everybody in the world, and I think her record shows that.

WAGNER: The nice thing is yes, you know, in four more years she'll only be 20. She could have the opportunity again. But we don't look at it that way, you know, because one never knows in sports what can happen in four years.

And I just look at young people that might be on the same path, and I can only hope that they have the same wonderful journey as Sarah's had.

MATTINGLY: The journey to Salt Lake began thousands of miles away in the posh Long Island suburb of Great Neck, New York, some 30 miles outside New York City. Here Sarah is a local celebrity. At her high school, students and teachers are proud of their hometown girl.

SUSAN BABKES, HISTORY TEACHER: She was just another student. The one exception, which was exciting, was the Monday morning after we learned that she made the Olympics, and they announced it on the PA in the morning in the first period class, and the whole class cheered, and then one student said "and she sat right there."

MATTINGLY: There's even a sandwich named after Sarah at the local delicatessen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have the Sarah Hughes special right here. MATTINGLY: Skating has always been a part of the Hughes family. When Sarah was three, her mother recalls bringing the children, all five in tow, to the local skating rink. The two older boys, five and seven, played hockey, and little Sarah wasn't about to be left out.

AMY HUGHES, MOTHER: It was a real ordeal to get everybody over there, and I'd line them up and tie their skates, and I'd tie hers first, the first time I took her, and when I went to the next one, who was the five-year-old, I looked and Sarah was gone. I don't even know how she could do it.

MATTINGLY: With no formal instruction, Sarah began to skate. By age 5, she competed in her first skating competition. She took second place. But it wasn't until 1994 that Sarah found Robin Wagner, the woman who would take her under her wing, support her, and cultivate her raw talent into Olympic potential.

WAGNER: It wasn't easy at first, because she was a little jumping bean, and all she wanted to do was jump. And when I first started working with her, my job was to, you know, do connecting steps, make her start to look like, you know, a young developing skater. It's an awful lot of work, especially when you've got a very young person who wants to sort of get out of the, you know, starting gate, and I've got to pull it back and really start to teach her.

MATTINGLY: The same can be said when Sarah is home. It's lighter moments with her family that help her stay in check.

A. HUGHES: I'd say she's been pretty well adjusted. I really do try to keep the skating talk out of the house.

MATTINGLY: But there's plenty of skating talk with Wagner. The two travel most days to Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey, on a good day, about an hour's drive from Sarah's home.

S. HUGHES: It's worth driving that far to get to my rink, because it's a world-class training facility. I'm actually lucky that I have this training facility so close, because I don't have to move.

J. HUGHES: Robin and Sarah have really got a bond between them, and I think this time they spent traveling back and forth had something to do with that. They listen to music. They talk about skating, and they talk about a lot of other things. Overall, I think the travel time has contributed to Sarah's growth.

MATTINGLY: Friendship has proven to be vital even in crisis. In 1997, Sarah's mother was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.

WAGNER: I was aware that my position was going to become a little bit more important, because I was going to have to let Amy and John deal with Amy's illness, but we really all hung in there together. Sarah took care of herself. She grew up quickly.

A. HUGHES: She really helped out with the younger sisters then, and she helped in the house, because I wasn't even there for five weeks. I was in the hospital, and she would come and visit. You know it was wonderful.

MATTINGLY: Sarah had to deal with her mother's illness, while preparing for the Junior Championship. Before the competition, her mother was released from the hospital to see her daughter skate. She is now in remission.

A. HUGHES: I hadn't seen the program. I hadn't heard the music, and she was wonderful, and she was so happy. You know what? It made me feel so good. She was just, she loved to do it.

MATTINGLY: Sarah Hughes heads to the ice six days a week. Off the ice, she takes ballet and other forms of dance to improve her choreography. The work seems to have paid off.

S. HUGHES: Sometimes I do get lonely because I'm by myself, but I don't really get to go and hang out at the mall for a whole weekend, or go and see a movie whenever I feel like it. But it's really a choice I made, and what I'm doing so much outweighs getting to do that.

I get to go to the rink and I get to skate and be the best I can be at something, and know I've given it my all.

MATTINGLY: Since 1997, Hughes has placed in 18 of her last 22 events, including a win at the U.S. Junior Championships, and two top three finishes at the World and U.S. Championships.

ELLIOTT: Sarah has shown a consistency, an increasing maturity. This time, Sarah Hughes is not chopped liver. I mean, Sarah Hughes is a genuine contender.

MATTINGLY: At this year's nationals, it was all on the line. Sarah needed to place to get an Olympic spot. From the stands, her parents watched and waited.

J. HUGHES: You need to prepare yourself to be able to deal with the times when you don't win, and there's always times that you're not going to win.

A. HUGHES: Sarah was so sad after the short program. She came to both of us and she said, "don't worry." She said "don't worry." I said "okay, I'm not going to worry.

MATTINGLY: There was no need to worry. Sarah Hughes placed third. She was headed to the Olympic Games. Sarah Hughes may only be 16, but she is looking to take on the role of spoiler in Salt Lake.

WAGNER: I think at an Olympic Games, that has to be the ultimate feeling an athlete has, because one never knows. You know, it's two minutes and forty seconds in a short program, four minutes in a long program, and anything can happen.

S. HUGHES: My goal in skating is to be the best I can be, and try to lead as normal a life as possible. And my life pretty much has been pretty normal. What is normal, you know?

MATTINGLY: When you're only 16 and shooting for a gold medal, life is anything but normal.

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MCMANUS: I'll be back later with a "Student Bureau Report" that could be important to your health. But stick around for "Perspectives," Shelley will introduce us to more female movers and shakers. Check them out in our continuing coverage of Women's History Month.

ANNOUNCER: Exploring our world, here now is CNN STUDENT NEWS "Perspectives."

WALCOTT: In "Perspectives" today, a closer look at the woman who sets the standard in homemaking. Martha Stewart has dished up advice on everything from making the perfect souffle to folding sheets. But perhaps the best thing about her good things is the way Stewart has served up herself.

Garrick Utley explains.

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GARRICK UTLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What is amazing, truly amazing about smiling, charming, tough-as-nails Martha Stewart is not what she sells, but how she's been able to sell herself. In magazines and books, telling us how to set the perfect table, and make a more gracious home.

MARTHA STEWART: Perhaps my favorite activity of all is making flower arrangements.

UTLEY: In the idyllic kitchen of her television program, showing us how to turn brussel sprouts into entertaining success and in the ever lengthening list of things she sells, particularly at troubled Kmart. She is no longer Martha Stewart, a mere mortal or a successful businesswoman, she's become something more.

HOWARD DAVIDOVITZ, DAVIDOVITZ & ASSOCIATES: She is the gold standard for Kmart.

UTLEY: There was a time when the American success story simply met getting rich, famous or powerful, and preferably all three, and those who did became known as celebrities or stars until those terms were devalued through loose use and overuse, so a new word, a new pinnacle of recognition had to be created. Now the highest achievement is to become a brand.

Of course, what Martha Stewart has done is nothing more than marketing 101, get a good idea, and then see how far you can stretch the brand -- from brides to babies, from beds to bathrooms, and beyond. Garden products as fashion statements, why not?

STEWART: I still go to work 24 hours a day. I'm working, I'm still working. I'm still on the way up that ladder.

UTLEY: Working to raise even higher her net worth, which is estimated at $600 million. So far, so good, but a brand that is a living breathing person has some investors worried.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The downside of that is first of all, Martha in seven or eight years doesn't look so beautiful, and it's what she has to have, she has to institutionalize her business.

UTLEY: In other words, is there life in "Martha Stewart Living" after Martha Stewart? A more immediate question right now is what will she do if Kmart goes bankrupt. For all the speculation about her moving down the street or down the mall to Wal-Mart or to Sears, she may do nothing.

Even in its cripple state, Kmart is accounted for an estimated 80 to 90 percent of Martha Stewart's merchandising income.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Her return on investment, it's three-figure. I mean it's embarrassing. It's a -- it is a cash machine for Martha.

UTLEY: And that's Martha Stewart ...

STEWART: You don't want to skimp on the lemon and ...

UTLEY: ... Living.

Garrick Utley, CNN, New York.

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WALCOTT: More now on the topic of women at the top. Can you guess how many female chief executives manage Fortune 500 companies? There are, count them, six. And some observers say those few women at the top are held to a higher standard.

Susan Lisovicz explains.

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SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Newly-named Lucent CEO, Patricia Russo, knows she is walking down a difficult path.

PATRICIA RUSSO, PRESIDENT AND CEO, LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES: It's a terrific opportunity to come back and lead the leading player in this space, and help restore the luster that I think is possible.

LISOVICZ: Lucent is not the only troubled company with a woman at the helm. Hewlett Packard is run by Carly Fiorina. Xerox is led by Anne Mulcahy. "Business Week" magazine named three women in its top 25 managers list -- media mogul, Oprah Winfrey, eBay's Meg Whitman and Carole Black, who is credited with transforming lifetime television into the number one watched cable network for 2001.

CAROLE BLACK, PRESIDENT AND CEO, LIFETIME TELEVISION: And there is still room for improvement, and we're seeing that happening. And I think that's a great sign. It's great for women, but it's also great for business. LISOVICZ: But it's lonely at the top. While women comprise nearly 50 percent of the U.S. work force, only 12.5 percent are corporate officers at Fortune 500 companies, and only 1.2 percent, six are top executives. Experts say the highly publicized failures by Sotheby's Diana Brooks, Warnaco's Linda Wachner and Mattel's Jill Barad put even more pressure on women who reach such high levels.

SHEILA WELLINGTON, PRESIDENT, CATALYST: Of course, the spotlight always burns brighter on something that's rare. It's the old dog bites man's nose story, man bites dog story, when you're a scarce commodity, a woman at the very top, the spotlight focuses on you.

LISOVICZ: Meanwhile, women have made huge strides in small business. Women now own 6.2 million firms, employ more than nine million workers and generate $1.2 trillion in sales.

JUDY ROSENER, UNIV. OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: They say, "Look it, I can do it. Why should I sit around and wait? You know, I'm not invited to play golf. I'm not in the same clubs." And gain, it's not having a chip on their shoulder, it's just saying I know I can do it.

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Susan Lisovicz, CNN Financial News, New York.

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ANNOUNCER: It may increase your strength, tone your body and even make you less stressed, but can yoga help you lose weight? Some say it can. One theory is that yoga blows away fat promoting stress hormones released in the body. But weight loss experts say there's no proof that yoga can help you shed pounds, but most agree that if yoga helps you commit to a healthy lifestyle, it can be a helpful weight loss tool.

MCMANUS: A new survey shows America is getting more obese. The Harris Poll, which conducted interviews in January, found among people 25 years or older 80 percent are considered overweight. That's up 16 percent from 1990. Sixty percent of the people surveyed said they would like to lose weight.

Our Student Bureau looks at one girl's endeavor to achieve and maintain a healthy weight plus tips to achieve a healthy lifestyle of your own.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): Exercising and eating healthy are two things Jessica Rubel makes time for.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, I've always been very health conscious and you know working out has always been something that I've done, but I decided that I needed to do something a little bit stronger.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Over the past nine months, Jessica, a 22- year-old college student, has lost 39 pounds with the help of Weight Watchers.

RUBEL: My goal originally, like I said, was to lose, you know, 10 or 15 pounds. Once I reached that, I decided that I wanted to just continue losing weight until I felt healthy.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Members of Weight Watchers like the plan because it allows you to eat whatever you want but in moderation. Weight Watchers Group Leader Arlene Lewis explains why.

ARLENE LEWIS, WEIGHT WATCHERS GROUP LEADER: If you learn to eat healthy, learn to control your portions, you can, first of all, take off the weight and then keep it off. And so it's not a diet as such, it's just a new approach to food and general health.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And experts in the health field like Weight Watchers and plans like it because they don't put stress on the word diet.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am not one to advocate going on a diet, because when you go on a diet that means you're going to go off it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Weight Watchers worked for Jessica, but it may not be the right plan for you. According to health experts, many college women don't realize that dieting can cause serious health problems. They recommend eating a healthy diet and maintaining a regular workout routine.

Leading a healthy lifestyle includes avoiding fad diets which cut out major food groups.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don't need to cut our your favorite foods. In fact, I think that's often dangerous to cut our your favorite foods because then you're holding off from eating them, you build up such huge cravings or you associate guilt with them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So instead of feeling guilty, stay healthy and remember...

RUBEL: If you really want to do it, it definitely can be done.

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"Where in the World?" Israeli occupied, bordered by Israel and Jordan, subject to droughts? Can you name this country? West Bank.

WALCOTT: And now a quick preview of what's on tap for tomorrow.

MCMANUS: That's right, Shelley. Tomorrow in our "Student Bureau Report," we'll tell you what Barbie is doing in school. It's not what you think.

WALCOTT: OK, I guess you could say Barbie is an accomplished woman in her own right. Talk about stamina, she's been around since 1959 and is still selling strong. Do you know how many Barbies are sold every day? MCMANUS: I actually do not, but I can guess a good number of them were sold to my four sisters. It was like a little condominium complex growing up in my house.

WALCOTT: That's very cute, but that's not a real answer, and you won't get one until tomorrow.

MCMANUS: No, it's not.

WALCOTT: Guess you'll have to come back and you'll have to tune in.

MCMANUS: I promise I will.

You have a great day. We will see you tomorrow.

WALCOTT: Have a good one everyone. Bye-bye.

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