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Value of human life = US $1.54 million in 1997 dollars.

I’m not usually a language fanboi, but this, at least, looks interesting.
Concise! Plays nice with .NET! Java!

Scala being used to demonstrate insane scalability (alleged) with (brief) source code for a twitter-like app.

Lift borrows from the best of existing frameworks including Seaside’s highly granular session and security, Rails fast flash-to-bang, Django’s ‘more than just CRUD is included’, and Erlyweb’s scalability for Comet-style applications.