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...make in the course of a campaign - like whether to speak his mind to a General Petraeus - and this has been a more difficult journey for Obama, since he's far more comfortable when he's able to think things through. "He has learned to trust his gut," an Obama adviser told me. "He wasn't so confident in his instincts last year. It's been the biggest change I've seen...
...asked Obama about gut decisions, in an interview on his plane 17 days before the election. It was late on a Saturday night, and he looked pretty tired, riddled with gray hair and not nearly as young as when I'd first met him four years earlier. He had drawn 175,000 people to two events in Missouri that day, larger crowds than I'd ever seen at a campaign event, and he would be endorsed by Colin Powell the next morning. He seemed as relaxed as ever, though, unfazed by the hoopla or the imminence of the election...
...crucial moment of the campaign - the astonishing onset of the financial crisis - it was Obama's gut steadiness that won the public's trust, and quite possibly the election. On the afternoon when McCain suspended his campaign, threatened to scuttle the Sept. 26 debate and hopped a plane back to Washington to try to resolve the crisis, Obama was in Florida doing debate prep with his top advisers. When he was told about McCain's maneuvers, Obama's first reaction - according to an aide - was, "You gotta be kidding. I'm going to debate. A President has to be able...
...started studying gut formation in worms after “falling in love with a mutant...
Mango’s lab is currently studying how the gut forms in worms—useful because they are transparent and so scientists can study a complicated process, like organogenesis, by watching the organ form from beginning to end in a living embryo...