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Alexandria City, a small urban area in Virginia, was listed by Amazon.com as the most well-read city in the United States (US), according to reports by several international news sites on Wednesday, May 16, 2012. Amazon reportedly listed down 20 of the most well-read cities in the US for 2012 based on sales data on [...]

Do you live in any of the top 20 cities? What was the last book you read? Tell us in the comments or tweet your response to @CNNwriters. (CNN) — Virginia is for lovers, so the slogan goes — but more specifically, it seems to be the state many book-lovers call home. Amazon.com customers in [...]

A national competition is challenging people to leave their cars at home and ride a bike.  Appleton is among the top cities in the country in that competition. Every time Tom Walsh rides his bike in Appleton, he reaps the benefits. “I found it to be a great way to get to and from work, [...]

Enlarge Spencer Platt/Getty Images A cyclist rides on a bike lane on Prospect Park West, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Bike lanes of this type use parked cars to create a buffer zone from road traffic. Spencer Platt/Getty Images A cyclist rides on a bike lane on Prospect Park West, in the [...]

Top 12 Washington cities for wood smoke and diesel pollution 1. Tacoma 2. Yakima 3. Darrington 4. Marysville 5. Vancouver 6. Wenatchee 7. Toppenish 8. Ellensburg 9. Meadowdale 10. Spokane 11. Colville 12. Twisp Micrograms per cubic meter of air Source: Washington Department of Ecology » Recommend this story. <!– KNOW MORE? –> » Know more about [...]

Most well-read cities included Alexandria, Va., which came out ahead of Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., in the Amazon list. The top 5 most-well read cities also included Ann Arbor, Mich., and Boulder, Colorado. By Patricia Reaney, Reuters / May 17, 2012 The city of Alexandria, Va. took the top spot in Amazon’s 2012 list of [...]