What Is a Life Worth? To compensate families of the victims of Sept. 11, the government has invented a way to measure blood and loss in cash. A look at the wrenching calculus. By Amanda Ripley With reporting by Nadia Mustafa and Julie Rawe in New York and Karen Tumulty in Washington Time, February 11, 2002

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