11.   But baseball can strangely distort the judgement of otherwise normal American adults.

12.   By the numbers - Fifty-four percent of all American adults are heavier than is healthy, according to a recent study from the University of Colorado.

13.   Forty-six million American adults continue to pursue this ever more unsociable behavior mainly because nicotine, like heroin and crack cocaine, is an addictive drug.

14.   Indeed, each night nearly half of all American adults toss and turn, sleepless.

15.   Insomnia is an occasional problem for as many as half of all American adults, other research suggests, and a chronic problem for at least one in six.

16.   Like many American adults, I have a near-superstitious dread of the Internal Revenue Service.

17.   More than one-quarter of all American adults will not get a tax rebate this year.

18.   Nearly two-thirds of American adults approve of legal gambling, according to a Gallup poll released this week.

19.   Nearly half of American adults believe incorrectly that they would risk electrocution by using a portable phone while in the bathtub.

20.   Never before have so many American adults been single.