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Kids' NEWSTIME—A sampler of America's children's daily newspaper first published in the early 1990's and restarted on November 4,1995! Kids, how many newspapers can you read a day?....... This is today's final edition:      VOLUME XI.................NUMBER 28…………....MARCH 5,2010 * News...Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announces that the District of Columbia government will be registering young people 14 to 21 years of age, from now through April 16,2010, for its Summer Youth Employment Program, with participants--there were almost 21,000 employed last year--earning the federal minimum wage, receiving training preparing them for their jobs and working in such settings as cultural and tourism institutions, local and federal governmental agencies, schools, recreation centers, child-care facilities, and libraries. * Business...The New York Stock Exchange announces, as of 3:26 P.M. Eastern Time, that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies, 3.452+ billion shares of stock have changed hands today, with shares of the money-management company, GLG Partners, Inc. decreasing 21.30 percent in value, more than shares of any other company. * Sports...The National Hockey League (NHL) reports, as Kids' Newstime went to press that Pittsburgh (Atlantic Division), Ottawa (Northeast) and, leading by 28 points, Washington (Southeast) are the division leaders in the Eastern Conference, while Chicago (Central Division), San Jose (Pacific) and Vancouver (Northwest) hold first place in their Western Conference divisions.

* Weather...The National Weather Service forecasts that the coldest spot in the Lower 48 States this afternoon is expected to be Glasgow, Montana, at 27 degrees Fahrenheit.  Check the map, kids! * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today were of magnitude 6.6 in the Western Hemisphere (20 miles north of Concepcion, Chile) and 6.5 in the region of southern Asia (100 miles west of Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia).   (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.) * Today in history... 146 years ago: March 5,1864—The former U.S. Vice-President, and unsuccessful Presidential candidate (1860), John C. Breckinridge takes command of Confederate troops in western Virginia, during the American Civil War. * A Quotation worth remembering...by Abraham Lincoln (16TH U.S. President): "...I would address a few words to the Southern people.... Perhaps you will say the Supreme Court has decided the disputed Constitutional question in your favor.  Not quite so.... And then it is to be remembered that 'our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live'—the men who made the Constitution—decided this same Constitutional question in our favor, long ago, ....  Under ... these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action?  But you will not abide the election of a Republican President! ... A few words now to Republicans.  It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony, one with another.  Let us Republicans do our part to have it so....  Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.  Judging by all they say and do, and by the subject and nature of their controversy with us, let us determine, if we can, what will satisfy them....  The question recurs, what will satisfy them?  Simply this: We must not only let them alone, but we must somehow, convince them that we do let them alone.  This, we know by experience, is no easy task.... In all our platforms and speeches we have constantly protested our purpose to let them alone; but this has had no tendency to convince them."  (February 27,1860 speech)  Lincoln is discussing the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision; fathers=America's Founding Fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison; conclusive and final rule of political action=a decision that conflicts with the intentions of America's Founding Fathers; to extort=to take by threatening; Territories be unconditionally surrendered=Republicans give up their objective of preventing the spread of slavery into the territories of the U.S.; abstaining=avoiding; recurs=comes up again and again; platforms=political-party written statements; tendency=active power or inclination.