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On December 9, 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on TV screens across America and instantly captured the hearts and ears of a generation. Bolstering the animated special, based on Charles M. Schulz's immensely popular PEANUTS comic strip, was an engaging score from Bay Area jazz artist Vince Guaraldi, who brought characters like Charlie Brown, Lucy, and Snoopy to life through his evocative cues... Guaraldi's soundtrack, meanwhile, has since become one of the best-selling jazz albums in history, second only to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue, and regularly ranks among America's top-selling holiday albums every December.Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas...

British architect Lord Norman Foster has been chosen to build an office tower at the World Trade Center site. Foster's previous projects include the new Hearst tower in Manhattan, the Beijing airport and the Swiss Re headquarters in London. Rebuilding officials in New York say Foster's tower will be the second of developer Larry Silverstein's five planned office towers at ground zero. Foster joins a half-dozen architects, including Frank Gehry and Santiago Calatrava, hired since the 2001 attack to design different projects at the 16-acre trade center site. A transit hub designed by Calatrava is under construction now. Construction is...