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Mornings are hard enough to face when you're not trudging off to a world of cubicles and fluorescent lights. Just waking up presents a challenge. Try this playlist for those days when you need more than two cups of coffee just to summon the strength to walk out the door in the morning.

Supermarket produce shelves can be bleak in December, but the humble cauliflower is in season. Top Chef finalist Carla Hall shares her recipe for a cream of cauliflower soup to warm the winter nights.

San Francisco is known more for its natural beauty and Victorian charm than for its contemporary architecture. But this fall the city is taking a big chance on the new de Young Museum, a 300,000 square foot facility sits smack in the middle of Golden Gate Park. Cy Musiker reports.

Also: Malala, Pakistani girl shot by Taliban, speaks out; Iran says Israel will regret strike on Syria; hostage situation continues in Alabama, where a 5-year-old boy has been held for almost a week.

Looking back on the year in jazz, much of the focus naturally falls on young talents such as Vijay Iyer. Still, some of 2009's key records also evoked bygone jazz eras with such creativity that they might signal a new wave of New Orleans and Brazilian jazz.

The city of Chicago has one more thing to boast about: Its hometown orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, has been named America's top orchestra in a new critics' poll published in the venerable British magazine Gramophone.

Correspondent Susan Stamberg gathers recommendations for the season's best books from booksellers Rona Brinlee, Daniel Goldin and Lucia Silva. Their selections include comics about philosophy, novels about building families, and a box set that dives into the process of writing.

At any given point in 2009, World Cafe host David Dye's Top 10 list would inevitably look different. So consider this a snapshot — and otherwise subject to change at any time. Some picks won't be new to most readers, but others qualify as left-field musical discoveries.

How did the cars and the people inside end up in western Oklahoma's Foss Lake? That's still a mystery. The vehicles and those last seen in them went missing in the '60s and early '70s. They were found by chance when sheriff's deputies were testing sonar equipment.

Also: Yahoo ousts its CEO; top Kony commander captured; John Edwards begins his defense; Greek leaders still struggling to form coalition.

A Congressional Budget Office analysis suggests the cost of the missile defense program could be $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years, a far heftier sum than the initial $175 billion price tag.

People familiar with the situation tell The Wall Street Journal that the bank's losses from a risky trading scheme will continue to mount in coming quarters. They also say, Bloomberg News reports, that JPMorgan may close the office responsible.