Absent-minded professor

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING LONDON - He's smart, he's modest, he writes haiku about going bald. He looks like an absent-minded professor, and his public name recognition outside Belgium is virtually zero. Is this the...

In this article: European Union, Europe, Brussels, HobNob, Oxford University, Herman Van Rompuy, Harry Potter, and Tony Blair

``It's sort of like being the absent-minded professor times five,'' says Tim Page. After a lifetime of struggling to relate to fellow human beings, he received a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome at age 45. Seven years later, Page, then the...

In this article: Tim Page, Asperger's syndrome, Autism, Doubleday, Tony Attwood, and The Miami Herald

...absent minded inventor. Multo, one of the characters in the hit series The Zula Patrol, is an example of an absent-minded professor. The "absent-minded professor" archetype is sometimes mixed with that of the "mad scientist", often for comic...

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...Obama, who had begun his presidency emphasising the importance of Afghanistan and Pakistan, appears increasingly like an articulate but absent-minded professor. He needs to be a much more involved commander-in-chief. His Nato partners...

In this article: Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Taliban, NATO, Barack Obama, US, Al-qaida, Pakistan, and Soviets

...of m'bats, currently between jobs, he can inspire to get his message out? Cons: Only moonbats have heard of him. Khazei looks like the absent-minded professor. He's from annoying Brookline but doesn't have $400 million, like Celticsman...

In this article: Mike Capuano, Therese Murray, Mitt Romney, Somerville, and City Year

...professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford, researching Alzheimer's disease. Now forget visions of a scruffy, absent-minded professor babbling about some esoteric science. The 57-year-old baroness (she was...

In this article: Susan Greenfield, Dopamine, House of Lords, Telstra, Royal Institution of Great Britain, Centre for Independent Studies, and Alzheimer's disease

...lines.... Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars in The Incredible Hulk: Hulkie Goes Bananas! Bruce Banner is a mild-mannered scientist and absent-minded professor who lives on Wisteria Lane with his lovely wife, Belinda (Amy Adams). They have a...

In this article: Disney, Jack Shephard, The Incredible Hulk, Hulk, ESPN, NFL, and Pixar

...Rebecca and Camilla Rosso, best known from "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody." Plot-wise, Izzy and Annie's mother died two years ago and their absent-minded professor father has taken a new job in L.A. So they pack up their flat in London and...

In this article: Legally Blondes, Legally Blonde, Rebecca and Camilla Rosso, Reese Witherspoon, and Harvard Law School

...expected. That was partly due to his age - he was already near 80 when I first called him - but also because he had acquired the disheveled, absent-minded professor look about him, his shirt untucked, his thinning hair unkempt. A few times I...

In this article: Robert S. McNamara, Pentagon, John F. Kennedy, United States, Edward M. Kennedy, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Washington, and Boston Navy Yard

...he died. "In the past year, I knew Michael Jackson more than anybody, and the only problem I had with him was that he was a bit like an absent-minded professor when it came to eating," Mr Phillips said. "He was too slim. Other than that, he...

In this article: Michael Jackson, Katherine Jackson, AEG Live, Los Angeles, Staples Centre, Race to the courthouse, Executor, and John Branca