This collection of papers presents ideas and research that helps to find a link between the retarded child's educational setting and the onset of delinquency. The first section presents the impacts of the judicial system on the mentally retarded offender, and researcher attempts to find a relationship between intelligence and delinquency. The second section deals with the legal mandates, such as P.L. 94-142, and the parameters that schools much comply with the ensure that every student, regardless of his/her handicap, receives a free and appropriate education. Finally, the last section focuses upon some of the methods currently being used by school districts to comply with P.L. 94-142 and presents a case study that amplifies the need for schools to identify and nurture exceptional children.

""'Shroom "" is a nine-foot tall talking mushroom that mysteriously appears to give Arnold Miracle something called Allpowers, but doesn't tell Arnold what they are or how they work. Soon, Arnold finds himself on a twisted adventure of discovery and nearly ultimate power that transcends time, space and good taste.

The story bounces backward and forward in time from Los Angeles to NYC, from 1930s depression-era Hollywood to the depths of Loch Ness, from vintage '50s Vegas to the Cretaceous Era, from the moon to an infamous Dallas day in November '63, from the Amazon river to the plains of Iceland to, finally, shocking revelation on the shores of Maui.

" "'Shroom "" features an extraordinary supporting cast that includes Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Martin & Lewis, James Bond, Laurel & Hardy, JFK, John Lennon, William Randolph Hearst, Bettie Page, Charlie Chaplin, Lucky Luciano, God and a few surprises. One of them is that Arnold isn't the only one with Allpowers. A villain named Kling also has them and he wants Arnold Miracle way totally dead. It all ends with an epic Allpowers battle between Good and Evil, a beautiful girl in lingerie, some man-eating fish, Charlton Heston in a loincloth and rum smoothies. It's a comedy.

From the moment he boards a mysterious bus marked ECSTASY, Dan Slam's life will never be the same. Whisked away to a fantastic alternity called Ovula, he meets the gorgeous (and naked) Vangi who convinces Dan to join her on a search for a mythical object of great and pungent power. The scene shifts back and forth in time and space from Cleveland, Ohio to Ovula as the mounting mystery, murder, action and shrimp intensifies in an epic, crazed conflict of good versus evil. including the deadly Lemon People, the Dread Chowder Turks, The Man Of Whom To Which Pain Is Nothing, the evil and cunning Lord Draegon and the fearsome monster Boofalo himself Their epic journey takes them from The Metagorical Mountains to The Ancient Caves Of Endless Percussion, from the bubbling mud pot caverns of the Tiger Ants into an inescapable Wheezer Sink Hole Boofalo is a hilarious, exciting, entertaining fantasy Take Stephen King and Billy Crystal, put them both in a really large blender, throw in some issues of Mad and Playboy magazines and hit 'puree' and you've got Boofalo As well as endless legal troubles as you've just killed two celebrities and ruined several leading periodicals.