Word: glenns
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Beside a dead maple, my neighbor from the next farm, Mark Shepard, cradles a Remington .280 rifle. I am a spectator today. So is Mark's son Glenn, 14. Glenn, a crack shot, has hunted turkey and pheasant with shotguns and deer with bow and arrow. But in New York State, he cannot legally go after deer with a gun until he is 16. That doesn't matter today. Glenn is excited but silent, testing the wind with a wet finger, flicking his eyes through the woods like any good hunter, alert to motion...
...states issued 14.9 million hunting licenses. Ten years earlier, the number was 15.8 million--not a dramatic change, but a trend. The average American hunter is white, male and 42 years old. Young people who once would have gone hunting naturally and casually in nearby fields and forests (as Glenn Shepard does) instead play soccer and go to the mall...
Once described by Jimmy Carter as the most boring man he ever met, Glenn was game enough to risk trading one-liners with Jay Leno Wednesday night, along with shuttle commander Curt Brown and crewman Steve Lindsey. Leno, essentially pitching comedic batting practice to Glenn, tossed a few slow, fat lobs directly over the plate, but Glenn whiffed, responding with a series of jokes--including a crack about whether his Senate colleagues would provide enough funding to bring him home--that fell more or less flat. It was left to Brown, 42 (young enough to have spent his late nights...
Leno was not the only one who got orbital schmooze time with the shuttle crew last week. Glenn also took a call from NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, who relayed a blunt message from Glenn's wife Annie: "You ain't going up again...
...Glenn, never one to sit long on his laurels, seems to have found a way to fill his postorbital time. Once he gets his land legs, he'll be reporting to literary agent Mort Janklow, who is said to be marketing the astronaut's memoirs. Wanna bet it won't be a joke book...