11.   Back home, Rabi said, he made a decent living driving a taxi, farming vegetables and raising livestock.

12.   --- San Francisco writer David Schneider, who drives a taxi, is a member of the Illinois Bar.

13.   Driving a taxi is tough work.

14.   Few of the future cabbies have spent their lives dreaming of the day they can drive a taxi in Gotham.

15.   Former factory managers drive taxis in Lima.

16.   He also drove a taxi while unsuccessfully trying to earn a living as a writer.

17.   He drove a taxi for his first few months in Boston, he says, then he worked in a store.

18.   He slept all day and drove his taxi at night, said the roommate, who asked not to be identified out of fear for his safety.

19.   He put himself through Manhattan College by driving a taxi on weekends and a school bus for a country day school on weekdays.

20.   He waited tables and drove taxis and slid through law school, cramming from borrowed books.