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 108…....SEPTEMBER 6,2010 * News...Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm announces that improvements her administration is making in public education will help children succeed in college and in the international economy, and already, she reports, math and reading scores have increased among students in grades 3 through 8, almost 70 percent more students—compared to numbers in 2002—are studying in advanced-placement classes designed to prepare them for college, and the state is making steady progress toward doubling the number of Michigan students who graduate from college. * Business...U.S. Trade Representative Ronald Kirk, a member of President Barack Obama's Administration, announces that, with the beginning of September, 2010, the government of Canada is now abiding by its 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement with the U.S., an agreement which requires Canada to collect 10 percent more in export duties on softwood lumber shipped into the U.S. from its provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; therefore, the U.S. will now stop collecting the same 10 percent, but in import duties, effective with September 1,2010, since Canada's action to collect the equivalent of $54.8 million in extra charges will protect the interests of the American softwood-lumber industry under the agreement the two nations have signed. * Sports…The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) reports, as Kids' Newstime went to press, that Atlanta meets New York again tomorrow after defeating New York in Game 1of the Eastern Conference Finals, on Sunday, by a score of 81-75, while Phoenix fell to Seattle, on a series-ending three-point shot, in Sunday's Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals.

* Weather...The National Weather Service has received reports of hail, so far today, in Wisconsin's Dodge, Jackson, Milwaukee, Wood and Waukesha Counties and in Iowa's Hardin and Franklin Counties.  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 5.5 in the Pacific Ocean (80 miles west-northwest of Neiafu, Tonga) and 5.5 also in the Pacific Ocean (45 miles southeast of Kira Kira, San Cristobal, Solomon Islands).  (With an atlas or a globe of the Earth, kids, find these places as quickly as you can.) * Today in history...44 years ago: September 6,1966—South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who had introduced strict racial separation, called apartheid, into his country, dies from stabbing wounds he received from a crazed Parliamentary messenger.

* A Quotation worth remembering...by Franklin D. Roosevelt (32ND U.S. President): "In our courts we want ....  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.... We think it so much in the public interest to maintain a vigorous judiciary that we encourage the retirement of elderly Judges by offering them a life pension at full salary….  It is the clear intention of our public policy to provide for a constant flow of new and younger blood into the Judiciary….  But chance and the disinclination of individuals to leave the Supreme Bench have now given us a Court in which five Justices will be over seventy-five years of age before next June and one over seventy….  I propose that hereafter, when a Judge reaches the age of seventy, a new and younger Judge shall be added to the Court automatically.  In this way I propose to enforce a sound public policy by law instead of leaving the composition of our Federal Courts, including the highest, to be determined by chance or the personal indecision of individuals.  If such a law as I propose is regarded as establishing a new precedent, is it not a most desirable precedent?  Like all lawyers, like all Americans, I regret the necessity of this controversy.  But the welfare of the United States, and indeed of the Constitution itself, is what we all must think about first."  (March 9,1937 radio speech to the nation, commonly called "fireside chat.")  judicial say-so=what judges would like to decide, despite what the law requires; vigorous judiciary=strong court system; younger blood=younger people; Supreme Bench=Supreme Court; sound public policy=wise government plan; composition of our Federal Courts=number of older judges and number of younger judges making up U.S. courts; personal indecision of individuals=Mr. Roosevelt is arguing that older judges cannot decide whether they should retire, when, in fact, they have decided to keep working despite their age or other personal limitations; precedent=example that influences others later.