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By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 14, 2010 2:33 AM CST

(Newser) – Taxi driver Mohammad Asadujjaman says he was just following his mother's advice to always be honest when he went out of his way to find a passenger who left a handbag containing $21,000 in the back seat of his cab. The Bangladesh-born med student... Read full story »

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