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...Joffe is editor of Die Zeit and a fellow of the Institute for International Studies and of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angela Merkel: German Rules | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

...cell-phone-signal exposure is intended to prevent RF radiation from heating tissue to the point that cells are damaged. Cell-phone RF radiation's "effect on the body, at least at this time, appears to be insufficient to produce genetic damage typically associated with developing cancer," Dr. Robert Hoover, director of the National Cancer Institute's Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, testified at a 2008 congressional hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Is Your Cell Phone? | 3/15/2010 | See Source »

That is not the only difference between then and now. As President-elect, Obama extended to the outgoing Bush Administration a statesmanlike cooperation that was the exact opposite of Roosevelt's politically shrewd distancing of himself from his discredited predecessor, Herbert Hoover. Obama could have scored cheap political points by leaving such criminally mismanaged enterprises as AIG and GM to their fate. Of course, he might also have touched off an economic smashup. In pursuing what he believed to be the responsible course, Obama echoed George W. Bush's fourth-quarter abandonment of free-market gospel. For both men, survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Era of No Consensus | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Maybe not, but what comes out of Elmendorf's office is just about the closest thing there is to holy writ in Washington these days. In a nondescript building across a freeway from the Capitol, on a floor where J. Edgar Hoover once housed the FBI's fingerprint files, the CBO has for decades been regarded as the unbiased scorekeeper in the capital's never-ending budget battles, which alone gets to judge whether legislation will add to or lighten the national debt. A bumper sticker posted on a billboard in the hallway gives you an idea of what passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Douglas Elmendorf: The Numbers Man Whom D.C. Trusts — and Loathes | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...always thus. "One reads with dismay of Presidents Hoover and then Roosevelt designing policies to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s on the basis of such sketchy data as stock price indices, freight car loadings, and incomplete indices of industrial production," writes the University of North Carolina's Richard Froyen in his macroeconomics textbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Economic Indicators Aren't Worth That Much | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

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