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...anyone can change that, it's Angela Belcher. A materials scientist and bioengineer at M.I.T., Belcher, 49, won a MacArthur Foundation genius grant in 2004, and last fall Scientific American named her research leader of the year for her current project: creating an entirely new kind of battery, not by building it but by growing it. Working with several M.I.T. colleagues, Belcher has engineered a virus, known as M13 bacteriophage, that latches onto and coats itself with bits of inorganic materials, including gold and cobalt oxide. That turns each long, tubular virus into what amounts to a minuscule length...
...battery works as a commercially viable product, that alone could qualify Belcher as a climate-change hero, but her vision is green in other ways as well. Conventional batteries generate a lot of waste during manufacture, and they're a disposal nightmare. But a viral battery essentially grows itself, using water as a solvent, so there's practically no waste. And since much of its relatively small bulk is organic, the battery is partly biodegradable...
...Belcher has been tackling a whole new field of science every five years (so far, she has mastered materials science, biochemistry, molecular biology and electrical engineering). Considering her track record, the next thing she decides to study could well lead to yet another remarkable breakthrough...
...that more and more voters are dissatisfied with their own lawmakers--a more telling phenomenon. The Democrats hope that come Election Day, this perfect storm of discontent will stir a giant wave to sweep the G.O.P. out of the majority. In a recent presentation to top Democrats, pollster Cornell Belcher said the party has its best chance since the Reagan era to win slices of the electorate that have come to be identified with the G.O.P. base, including churchgoers, young white men and Southern men. Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, sees conditions ripe for an electoral...
...mirror in a children's changing room; in Victoria the owner of three child-care centers was charged; and in Perth detectives discovered more than 350,000 images and hundreds of videotapes of child pornography in the home of a self-employed computer expert. The man, Raymond John Belcher, 36, has pleaded guilty to the charges and will be sentenced early next year. Despite the success of Operation Auxin, detectives like Rouse are far from complacent. He fears they have barely dented the numbers of such criminals. "Every year we prosecute 150 of these types," he says. "We catch them...