Time was we'd get our news first and foremost from NPR, but these days, it's all about Anderson Cooper: 360. We'd like to say that's because it's the best place in this political season to find the analysis of longtime bipartisan consultant David Gergen, but we have to face facts. We do it every week just for this: a daily two-shot of 360 host Anderson Cooper and subanchor Erica Hill, two of the hottest people to read the news in the 190-year history of television.

Man, how this brief little moment -- just a couple of minutes at the end of each broadcast -- really tickles our news fancy. Sometimes we download the 360 podcast and just pause this shot for minutes at a time on our work computer, picturing ourselves in a sloppy split-screen sandwich between these two. Sure, we know that's an impossible dream -- no newscaster has made out with their co-anchor on the air since the great Huntley/Brinkley liplock fiasco of 1969. But until Melissa Theuriau gets a job over here, it's the best news fantasy we got.

Anyhow, click through for video of Erica commemorating Andy's appearance in People's 2005 Most Beautiful People List.