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Management Consultant Bob Nelson talks with Renee Montagne about disgruntled employees in the workplace. After many years of service in the same company, employees can become bored, even bitter. Nelson offers some tips about when it's time for both employer and employee to move on.

Israel said it targeted known Hezbollah strongholds or areas used to launch rockets. But a former Israeli prison may have been hit to erase evidence of what happened there during an earlier Israeli occupation.

Hezbollah's leader says his goal is not to hold the villages of south Lebanon, but to inflict as many casualties as possible on Israeli troops. Hezbollah fighters are present throughout the region. But, like guerrillas in previous conflicts, they are largely invisible.

Chevron and two other oil companies announce that they have successfully tested a new oil well deep in the Gulf of Mexico. An exploratory oil rig, drilling to a record-setting depth and pressure, flowed at a rate of 6,000 barrels of crude oil per day, and the find has the potential to be a significant new energy source.

Almost all parties trying to halt the fighting in the Middle East agree on this: A multinational force should be deployed to the Israel-Lebanon border as soon as possible. That's where the agreement ends.

A group of meteorologists says global warming probably isn't responsible for an apparent dramatic increase in the strength of extreme storms during the past few decades. The group says that, until 1990, even the best satellite data tended to underestimate the wind speed of storms.

Demonstrations against the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon have been growing on the streets of Arab capitals. Pro-American Arab leaders are recalibrating their positions. U.S. hopes of keeping them on board for a wider Middle East initiative may be eroding.

The oldest known copy of Archimedes’ work lies hidden under the pages of a 13th century prayer book. For years, scientists and scholars tried to decipher what ancient script they could. Now, new technology is allowing them to look past the prayer book to the wealth of knowledge underneath.

California was one of the first states to institute term limits. Now it's on the leading edge of a new trend. In Tuesday's primary, three wives, one husband and two brothers are running for a family member's seat in the state assembly. Tamara Keith of member station KPCC reports.

Five news organizations have agreed to a $750,000 payment to settle a lawsuit by former government scientist Wen Ho Lee. Media watch organizations call the development troubling, since Lee did not sue for libel, but rather for violation of privacy.