1.   And frequently when such entrepreneurial professors do talk about their work, they want to reveal only enough to titillate potential investors.

2.   As this football season has gone unblemished, even chemistry professors have been talking about football in the dining hall, defensive end Marc Laborsky said.

3.   A journalism professor talks to middle-class African-Americans about their lives.

4.   Gingrich talks about S curves, carbon nanotubes, hydrogen fuel cells and solar energy, explaining complex concepts, much as a professor would talk to a student.

5.   In one recent sophomore physics course, for example, a student played with a card game on his computer screen while the professor talked.

6.   Inside, the music was pounding with urban energy as the professor talked his lyrics at a virtuosic pace.

7.   One professor talked philosophically of trying to give students ethical references in their discussions about the attack.

8.   Once, he said, a professor talked his way back stage to his dressing room and made physically intimate moves before Leech had him ejected.

9.   The professor was talking to a developer, who asked if he wanted to see a beautiful building.

10.   The two professors have often talked about the relationship between science and a fundamentalist upbringing.