11.   American women have always been less supportive than American men of U.S. involvement in war, including World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf War.

12.   American men are favored to win four golds, the women none.

13.   American men demand sexual fidelity from their long-term mates and often go berserk at the mere thought that their wives or sweethearts are unfaithful.

14.   American men may have many secrets but none so well kept as this one about the boats.

15.   American men may never embrace the itsy-bitsy Speedo-style bikini popular in Europe and South America.

16.   And his case has focused national scrutiny on the growing practice of American men seeking foreign brides through computer and catalogue mating services.

17.   And despite its Americanized translation, some critics have argued that no trio of red-blooded American men would be caught dead arguing about the aesthetics of modern art.

18.   And no living American women, certainly not amid all those living American men.

19.   And perhaps this ambivalence, in part, explains why tens of millions of American men and women have had extramarital affairs or know well someone who has.

20.   And in what is believed to be a first in the Olympics, a woman, Michelle Blessing, will coach the American men and women at Sydney.