1.   American male.

2.   American males are taught that openly studying or discussing their appearance is unmanly, and it makes us squeamish.

3.   And until last Sunday, he had been the last American male to take the podium in a technical division with an international field.

4.   Atlanta Braves reliever John Rocker, whose neck is bigger than his skull, offends everybody except his fellow American white males.

5.   Because of a heightened awareness of the difficulties involved in being a young American male, I pointed out that this was not proper conduct.

6.   -- American black males died of prostate cancer more frequently than any other population group in the industrialized world.

7.   After all, there have been a zillion films about American males and their early adolescence and not nearly enough about females.

8.   But the survey also showed that the American adult male is just not a joiner.

9.   For at least two decades, headlines have borne witness to the crisis of the American male.

10.   Having already covered woodworking, barbecuing, firearms, cars, money and oral sex, Dads has exhausted most of the editorial interests of the average American male.