However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the rest of her life that "some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem".

Among the children who had not been tricked, the majority were willing to cooperate with the tester in learning a new skill, demonstrating that they trusted his leadership.

But in addition to those trusted coworkers, you should expand your horizons and find out about all the people around you.

If you're not sure, ask for honest feedback from trusted friends, colleagues and professionals.

In effect, the approach would create a "walled garden" in cyberspace, with safe"neighbor hoods" and bright "streetlights" to establish a sense of a trusted community.

Last month, Howard Schmidt, the nation's cyber-czar, offered the federal government a proposal to make the Web a safer place—a "voluntary trusted identity" system that would be the high-tech equivalent of a physical key, a fingerprint and a photo ID card,

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about.