NEW YORK, May 18, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- This week's Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition centerpiece will focus on a provision that would allow immigrant shepherds to apply for a green card after three years on the range. The week's Weekend Edition will be available via home delivery and newsstands on May 19-20.
Immigrants have tended America's sheep for more than 100 years, often as "guest workers" forced to return home when their works ends. Should they become citizens? As efforts to pass an immigration bill heat up in Washington, senior special writer Barry Newman visits Peruvian shepherds whose immigration status has waxed and waned over the years thanks to anomalies in the law. Now a little-noticed provision in the current bill would allow them, and thousands of other guest workers, to finally get green cards.
Additional stories appearing in this week's Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal include the following:
Money & Investing:
-- Paperless Bank Accounts: As more people go paperless with their
bank accounts and other financial matters, it is complicating
estate planning in unexpected ways -- increasing the need to create
a comprehensive checklist of your assets.
-- Global Stocks: From London to Hong Kong to Auckland, to random
places like Wyndhoek, Namibia, U.S. investors are increasingly
gaining access to global stocks that are largely unavailable
stateside. There are many factors at work -- including the fact
that it's getting much easier to open a brokerage or bank account
abroad, and thus invest directly in a foreign country.
Pursuits:
-- French Open: When the French Open begins this month, American fans
will be fixating on Andy Roddick and the Williams sisters, but
insiders will be following a 17-year-old from Delaware who is
ranked 277th. Madison Brengle is a test case for a radically new
approach to producing pro tennis players in the U.S. For the past
nine months, Ms. Brengle and another 17-year-old, Ashley Weinhold,
have been living and training at the U.S. Tennis Association's new
full-time residential academy in Boca Raton, Fla.
-- Vegetables: Vegetables are the new foie gras. Not because of PETA
pressure to ban duck torture. Not because the baby veggie crowd
from San Francisco has stormed the gates of fine dining. Journal
columnist Raymond Sokolov finds that vegetables are out there in
boldface type on leading menus because they are an inexhaustible
source of special flavor and novelty.
-- Nascar: Many media outlets have been in a tizzy about Dale
Earnhardt Jr. becoming "the first Nascar free agent." Nothing could
be further from the truth - -Nascar drivers have always been free
agents.
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