A veteran journalist dramatizes the controversial search for an AIDS vaccine-the players, the politics, the money-in a vivid, suspenseful story that reveals how science is done and not done, in America today. A journalist who has written widely about medical research, Thomas recounts how the search for an AIDS vaccine has taken a back seat to the search by major pharmaceutical companies for expensive drugs to kill the virus. She found social attitudes...

A boy and his father lift one another's spirits by going sledding on a winter's night.

Seeking peace and quiet, Porcupine asks Rabbit to stop his clock from ticking, with noisy results.