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They are renowned as supernaturally difficult prey by the people who hunt them. Michael Tull, 41, a manufacturer's sales representative from Roswell, Georgia, calls the sport "absolutely addictive; some people call it a disease." He hunts about 25 mornings a year during the birds' spring mating season, getting up at 3 a.m., driving an hour and a half, then lying in the brush of north Georgia in a green-and-tan camouflage suit, making improper suggestions in hen-turkey language to persuade sex-crazed gobblers to strut into shotgun range, tail feathers spread, beard wiggling, wings spread and lowered...
Sears, a once troubled company that has undergone a makeover, expects its Christmas sales to rise 5% to 6% as shoppers hunt for bargains and down-to-earth wares. "It's a homebody's Christmas," says John Costello, a senior executive vice president of Sears, whose third-quarter profits of $220 million were up 19% compared with the same period last year. "The focus will be on practical gifts as well as a few little luxuries that can make the holidays special. A new tool, a cellular phone, a bottle of perfume, and that...
...gold medals, he also anchored the victorious U.S. 4x400-meter relay team. After that performance, Nebiolo, the Italian who rules the IAAF with an iron hand, said he would consider the unusual though not unprecedented step of altering the schedule. According to Johnson's agent, Brad Hunt, "What Michael is hoping is that the two events get completely separated. He wants to finish one before he starts the other." Both Johnson and the Atlanta organizing committee were expecting a decision in October; they're still waiting...
Georgians love their football, so they may be interested to know that one member of the U.S. Olympic team played in the N.F.L. alongside Bart Starr. He's Erv Hunt, the University of California track coach who will be guiding the Olympic men's squad. Hunt was a Fresno State cornerback whom the Packers drafted in 1970. He left Green Bay after two seasons because of a back injury...
DAVID LETTERMAN Oscar jilts him for Whoopi; CBS pulls his Bonnie Hunt sitcom...