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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 30.....................MARCH 10,2010 * News...Alaska Governor Sean Parnell announces his satisfaction that a U.S. District Court has refused to put a temporary stop to a 1,164-acre timber purchase in the southeastern part of the state, by a middle-size lumber mill employing 110 people year-long; the Governor says that the decision means that the lumber company will not have to shut down business while the environmental impact of logging is considered in court. * Business...The New York Stock Exchange announces that, in trading of (ownership) shares in U.S. and foreign companies, 5.469+ billion shares of stock have changed hands today, with shares of the communications company,  AboveNet, Inc. decreasing 12.19 percent in value, more than shares of any other company.  * Sports… The National Basketball Association (NBA) reports, as Kids' Newstime went to press, that Boston (Atlantic Division), playoff-bound Cleveland (Central) and Orlando (Southeast) lead their divisions in the Eastern Conference, while in the Western Conference the Los Angeles Lakers (Pacific Division), Dallas (Southwest) and, by only 1 game, Denver (Northwest) still hold first place in their divisions.

* Weather...The National Weather Service has received reports of tornados, so far today, in Arkansas' Hempstead County and in Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish.  Check the map, kids! * Other earth news...The National Earthquake Center, in Golden, Colorado, reports that the two highest-magnitude quakes recorded earlier today, outside the region of Chile, were of magnitude 5.2 in the central Atlantic Ocean (860 miles northeast of Parnaiba, Piaui, Brazil) and 5.1 in the Pacific Ocean (65 miles southeast of Port-Vila, Efate, Vanuatu).  (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.) * Today in history...93 years ago: March 10,1917—The Ottoman Turks start withdrawing their army from Baghdad, the southern base of the Turkish Empire, during World War I, after British and Indian troops advance after their victory at Kut on the Tigris River. * A Quotation worth remembering...by Franklin D. Roosevelt (32ND U.S. President): "The Courts, ... , have cast doubts on the ability of the elected Congress to protect us against catastrophe by meeting squarely our modern social and economic conditions....  the majority of the Court has been assuming the power to pass on the wisdom of these acts of the Congress—and to approve or disapprove the public policy written into these laws....  In the face of ... dissenting opinions, it is perfectly clear that, as Chief Justice Hughes has said, 'We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.'  The Court in addition to the proper use of its judicial functions has improperly set itself up as a third house of the Congress--a super-legislature, as one of the justices has called it--reading into the Constitution words and implications which are not there, and which were never intended to be there....  In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.  I want--as all Americans want--an independent judiciary as proposed by the framers of the Constitution.  That means a Supreme Court that will enforce the Constitution as written, that will refuse to amend the Constitution by the arbitrary exercise of judicial power--in other words by judicial say-so.  It does not mean a judiciary so independent that it can deny the existence of facts which are universally recognized."  (March 9,1937 radio speech to the nation, commonly called "fireside chat.") (Great) Depression=period of factory closings, many more poor people, and high numbers of workers without jobs; to pass on the wisdom of these laws=not to limit themselves to deciding whether the laws are constitutional, or legal; dissenting=objecting; implications=suggestions; a government of laws and not of men=a constitutional government, not a dictatorial government; framers of the Constitution=America's Founding Fathers, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison; judicial say-so=what judges would like to decide, despite what the law requires.