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    2000: To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.

    –Buddhist proverb, quoted by Richard P. Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think? (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 241.
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1999: drkoop.com, Inc. goes public on the NASDAQ, selling 9,375,000 shares at $9.00 each. For a brief shining moment, founder Dr. C. Everett Koop's stake is worth more than $50 million. Within a year, the online health-care company is on its deathbed.

1955: Tim Berners-Lee, future inventor of the World Wide Web, is born in London, England, the son of two designers of the Ferranti Mark I, an early commercial computer.

1916: Francis Harry Compton Crick is born in Northampton, England. In 1953, working with James Watson, he discovers the double-helix molecular structure of DNA, the building block of life (and of the biotechnology industry).