By Mike Hughes To a generation of TV viewers, Chuck Lorre already is a hero. He wrote a favorite theme song. "I'll meet people who grew up with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,'" Lorre says.

By Dorothy Korber, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Apr. 9--Up in Alpine County, they know an abyss when they see one. This winter, because of a stalemate in Congress, the rugged county found itself on the brink of a financial abyss that threatened to close schools and lay off teachers.

ABSTRACT. Carl Ortwin Sauer (1889-1975) is widely regarded as one of the most influential geographers of the twentieth century, admired particularly for his studies in cultural and historical geography.