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Good news for change How about some good news for a change? Something to consider when you are in a people-are-no-damn-good mood? Here's a phrase we hear a lot: “You can't trust anybody anymore.” Doctors and politicians and merchants and salesmen. They're all out to rip you off, right? It ain't necessarily so. Man named Steven Brill tested the theory. In New York City, with taxicab drivers. Brill posed as a well-to-do foreigner with little knowledge of English. He got into several dozen taxis around New York City to see how many drivers would cheat him. His friends predicted in advance that most would take advantage of him in some way. One driver out of thirty-seven cheated him. The rest took him directly to his destination and charged him correctly. Several refused to take him when his destination was only a block or two away, even getting out of their cabs to show him how close he already was. The greatest irony of all was that several drivers warned him th...