Jamelle Agbuis

Monster Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the South Jersey coast, as forecasters had predicted, on Monday evening with gale-force winds of 90 miles per hour and bringing with it the promise of "historic" damage that could lead to scores of unprepared Americans "fighting in the streets" for basic goods like food, gasoline and fresh water, local residents are warning.

Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every day without thinking about it, liberating your brain to ponder other things, such as what to make for dinner.

New insight into the aggressive behavior of certain adult B-acute lymphoblastic leukemias has provided researchers with a potential new prognostic biomarker and a promising new therapeutic target.

A question I am asked often to explain is "how does the web stuff work for my agency?" By web stuff I mean your domain name, email, and website hosting. Some agency principals understand and control this, while others leave this to 3rd parties or their staff.

Investors must have been wondering how long the good weather would last...how long it could last. Stocks have been on the up and up since March of 2008, the nadir of the crisis. They've doubled from then 'till now.

According to the Australian government, Australia's economic future lies overseas. An economic boom in Asia is going to define Australian prosperity. Government publications, slide shows and statistics all show how important foreign growth is.

And it doesn't make any difference who wins the White House... either. What the economy needs is real stimulus, not the phoney stimulus offered by Obama and Romney. Not the measly spending cuts. Not the timid tax increases.

Stocks managed small gains on Wall Street another lackluster Wall Street trading session on the 25th of October, with doubts surrounding weak business ventures keeping most investors cautious.

From flu shots to full-service health care, on-the-job clinics can boost worker productivity.

Firm in the belief that 'sustainability should not be a luxury good,' IKEA releases a sustainability strategy that, among many things, finds the retailer striving toward complete energy independence by 2020.

Researchers at Duke University honor the singer in recognition of her 'fervent defence of equality and individual expression'.

If recent reports are to be believed, Rory McIlroy might be about to sign a highly lucrative sponsorship deal with Nike.

Researchers at King’s College London have identified a gene involved in the development of breast cancer, which could lead to the earlier detection and treatment of the disease.

They've seen a lot of each other in recent weeks, but Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will again be up against each other in China in a week's time.

We also have a way to vastly increase US household income - the feds have only to spend more money! Just add zeros. How about that? The poor family has not a dime more in real, spendable income...but we've managed - by clever use of mathematics and economics - to double its income.

The findings support previous studies in boys that suggested the brains of teenagers with behaviour problems may operate differently, and they could also explain why boys are more likely than girls to develop behaviour problems.

A recent NY Times (NYT) article covered the trend of more and more hospitals no longer giving out free samples of infant formulas to birthing mothers provided by the manufacturers.

It's not that the hundreds of billions of dollars spent over the years on cancer research has been a complete waste, but sometimes the simplest answer is the best one.

'Asia has a big advantage,' said our old friend Marc Faber, at the Halkin conference in London. 'It doesn't have the same entitlement culture of the developed countries.'

The National Australia Bank (NAB) reported pre-tax profits of $1.4 billion on Friday. That's a lot of money. But it was $250 million that got the market's attention. The stock was down as much as 3.5% during the day before closing down 2.71%.

Wayne Swan, Australia's current Treasurer, is proving to be an even better juggler than our own Nick Hubble, who actually knows how to juggle.

There is a great need among many mothers for breast milk for their newborn babies, and one of the ways this need is being met is through Facebook groups dedicated to buying, selling, or simply trading breast milk.

UCLA researchers test proposed criteria for diagnosing 'hypersexual disorder'. The idea that an individual might suffer from a sexual addiction is great fodder for radio talk shows, comedians and late night TV. But a sex addiction is no laughing matter. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, lives ruined.

Surprise, surprise. China's GDP growth for the third quarter came in bang on the consensus estimate of 7.4%, the slowest rate of growth in years. But the market liked it because on a quarter-on-quarter basis growth was 2.2%, up from 2% in the prior quarter. So on an annualised basis, the Chinese economy grew at a fast 8.8%.

The Public Health Agency (PHA) welcomes a UNICEF report, launched yesterday, (18 October) that makes a strong financial case for investing in better support services for women to enable them to start breastfeeding and continue for as long as they wish.

Intervention stopped early in NIH-funded study of weight loss in overweight and obese adults with type 2 diabetes after finding no harm, but no cardiovascular benefits

The first thing to know about them is that they always use a net. In fact, trapeze artists will practice a trick by repeatedly landing in the net, until they get it right. Only then will the catcher bother to make a trip up the rope ladder to hang in the catch trapeze and pluck the swinging flyer out of the air.

Air Fuel Syndication, a company located in the UK, claims that it has developed a revolutionary technology that enables production of "petrol from air". "Petrol from air" is produced by using technology that captures water vapor and carbon dioxide present in air. By using this method the company produces a synthetic version of the fossil fuel.

Sony Corp. informed on the 19th of October it would cut approximately 2,000 jobs in Japan in the year to March 2013 as a part of the restructuring plan. The company also announced the closure of a camera lens factory in Japan as well. The job cuts in Japan are a part of Sony Corp.'s global plan to downsize the global headcount by about 10,000 by March 2013.