A new organisation called Celera Genomics will analyse the human genome at a single site in Maryland and, if all goes well, beat the public project to the sequence by a couple of years.This time, however, Dr Venter has been thinking small.
When pressed, beat the dead horse projects you just can't release; rework old pieces over and over instead of leaping into new, uncertain territory.
The two failed to see eye to eye, though, and Dr Venter went on to help create a second firm, Celera, in the hope of beating the public project to the human genome.
"We started the project to beat the existing record for man-powered vehicles on water," he said, speaking for his partners, Bjorn Bye and Johan Schreiner.
5 Gyres is also a partner in the "Beat the Microbead" campaign, a project of the Plastic Soup Foundation and Stichting De Noordzee of the Netherlands, which produced an app that lets consumers scan the barcode of a product to see whether it contains plastics.
With all its savings measures, Labor should have found a way to match or beat the Coalition with its projected deficit in the forward estimates.
Dr. Feldstein, who served as chief economic adviser to the Reagan Administration, calculates that a 21-year-old who follows this plan to retirement would have an even chance of beating the currently projected Social Security benefit by at least one-third.
The one difference is that Apollo was an American project aiming to "beat the Russians".
Some builders went ahead with projects in December to beat the change in building codes, Ms. Lee said.
The film got its wider release and took $100m, soon beating The Blair Witch Project to become the most profitable movie of all time, with a staggering 433,900% return on its investment.
