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LiveScience.com - If employers want to increase job satisfaction, a little
shrubbery apparently goes a long way. Workers are happier when offices have
plants and windows, a new study found.

AFP - The price of oil hit a record high point of 130.28 dollars a barrel on Wednesday on anxiety about stretched supplies in the face of strong demand for energy, and as the dollar weakened, traders said.

AFP/Getty Images/File - Oil prices headed towards a record high of 130 dollars a barrel on Wednesday on anxiety about stretched supplies in the face of strong demand for energy, analysts said.

AP - Conservation groups returned to court to challenge Bush administration efforts to help save the polar bear, saying federal officials’ refusal to include steps against global warming violates the Endangered Species Act.

AP - The Philippine disaster agency says the death toll from a tropical storm that battered the northern Philippines over the weekend has risen from 12 to 37.

AP - Painted and feathered Indians waving machetes and clubs slashed an official of Brazil’s national electric company Tuesday during a protest over a proposed hydroelectric dam.

AFP - The death toll from a tropical storm that swept through the northern Philippines has risen sharply to 37 after victims were discovered in an isolated province, the civil defence office said on Wednesday.