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U.S. psychologist proves British are most eccentric
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LONDON Few people know Britain's famous eccentrics as well as
American psychologist David Weeks, who has made a two-year study of
people he calls "happily obsessed."
Weeks, principal clinical psychologist at Scotland's Royal
Edinburgh Hospital, has studied 130 of those people who help give the
British a reputation for seeming slightly dotty.
Like a potato inspector Weeks found who exists on potatoes and
chocolate bars but remains healthy. Or a man who installs automatic
bank te...
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