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0 Comments | Insight on the News, Oct 29, 2002 | by John Elvin

* High self-esteem or narcissism contributes to violence, suicide, depression, eating disorders, racism, drunken driving, teen-age pregnancy, relationship conflicts, academic difficulties and increased use of drugs and alcohol (research on the self-esteem movement in education, child-rearing and psychological counseling, based on several studies by Brad J. Bushman of Iowa State University and Roy F. Baumeister of Case Western Reserve University).

* The "world's longest-running motion picture" is Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot, a film about the American Revolution with a run of almost 50 years and more than 30 million viewers at the visitor center in the restored "living-history" site located in Williamsburg, Va., 150 miles south of Washington (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announcement).

* A group of Russian senators will call on the United States to amend portions of a 1990 agreement establishing the water boundary between the countries that prohibits Russian fishermen from entering a 200-square-mile area of the Bering Sea (Pravda, citing a report in Russia's Nezavisimaya Gazeta).

* Thirty-nine percent of the American public believes the government has too much power (recent Gallup poll).