Although incomplete, the working draft pinpoints some 50,000 genes and about 25,000 gene fragments, says molecular biologist Gregory Mahairas of the University of Washington, Seattle, who with Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, sequenced the rice genome for Monsanto.
It was Pershing who ensured that all three would be fully prepared for the great task of "the next war" that Pershing was confident would be the bloody epilogue to the incomplete work of the Great War that a premature Armistice all but guaranteed.
Any narrative on the swine flu episode would be incomplete without mentioning the work of Richard Shope on the possible relationship between the putative influenza virus of 1918 and its eventful residence in pigs in Iowa, where it caused an influenzalike syndrome and where it remained as a reservoir (5 ).
If I look at all the incomplete work and the volume that keeps piling up, I can easily move into a sense of being overwhelmed, followed shortly by stress, irritability and then more stress.
Students withdrawing later in the term may be able to take incompletes and finish the work later, especially in college.
Consider Virgil, who died during the editing of the Aeneid in 19BC and left instructions for the incomplete work to be destroyed.
(McQueen considered the work incomplete until the stamps were issued for everyday use by the Royal Mail, which the RM declined to do).
Let us finish this very short and incomplete survey by mentioning the work of Sompolinsky and colleagues.
I leave with the incomplete work in my mind, thinking that, under all that bravura is, dare I say it, an old-fashioned craftsman, worthy of his studio.
One of my "wish I'd been there" moments has long been that day, in June 1912, when Stravinksy persuaded Debussy to play through a four-hand version of the incomplete work.
