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Congress did not approve a provision that allows foreign workers who were in the country on special visas last year to return, and this has left some circuses short of people to sell tickets, build rides and put up the big top. "Most Americans don't want to give up living in one place, having a house, to travel nine months a year," said Jim Judkins, who has worked in the circus industry for the past 32 years. This reminds me of a passage from The Circus Age by Janet M Davis, a very interesting book that presents the circus as a sort of crude confronting ground for Americans working out their liminal anxieties about social and demographic change: In 1924 a revised Immigrant Act enacted quotas that virtually halted immigration to the United States from southern and eastern Europe and Asia.
Read this before you swipe! Debit-card dangers
First, some basics: A debit card looks just like your credit card, but works like an electronic check. The payment is deducted directly from your checking or savings account. When you use your debit card to purchase items, you or the cashier slides the card through a scanning machine that enables your bank to verify that the funds are available and then approve the transaction. Most debit cards can also be used to withdraw cash at ATMs, and can also look just like your ATM card (look at the face of the card to find the “debit" language). Debit cards are handy — so handy, in fact, that two-thirds of American households have them. They are more convenient to carry than cash or a bulky checkbook, plus swiping the card is easier and faster than writing a check. In addition, there are no interest payments.
Davidson Calendar: Feb. 22- March 3
BlueMax rides are $5 non-members, $4 members; 862-5160. The Ugly Duckling: Nashville Opera presents this whimsical children's operetta, based on the popular short story, providing a lighthearted introduction to voice and drama. 3 p.m. Feb. 23, Barnes & Noble, 515 Opry Mills Drive; free; 514-5000. Country Ham Breakfast: 7 a.m. Feb. 23, Belleview Masonic Lodge, 7420 Old Harding Road; $6. Retired Racing Greyhounds: People interested in adopting retired racing greyhounds are welcome to attend and meet these calm, affectionate dogs, talk with owners and see dogs available for adoption. For more information, call 615-297-2033, visit www.gpanashville.org or e-mail mafones@comcast.net. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 23, Bellevue Pet Supermarket, 830 Highway 100. Show Shoppe Finale Concert: Massey Concert Hall.
Coast Guard IDs two who died in capsizing off Oregon coast
HAMMOND, Ore. -- The Coast Guard has identified two men who whose bodies were recovered after a boat crabbing off the northern Oregon coast capsized. They are 54-year-old James Nibler of Salem and 52-year-old Curtis Heuer of Newberg. The Coast Guard suspended a six-hour search at nightfall Saturday and had not found a third man: Nibler's 41-year-old brother, Lawrence. Expected survivability was estimated at four hours. Bob Coster, search and rescue coordinator at the Coast Guard's Astoria station, says it appears a crab-pot line got tangled on an outboard motor, destabilizing the 16-foot vessel. .
Stories by Matt Pacocha
A half hour before the doors opened for day two of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Portland, the crowds piled into the Oregon Convention Center's lobby to wait. Each had paid $18 for a day's worth of access to more than 150 of North America's finest small- and ... .
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