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In a world of iPods and TiVo, DVDs and XBox, blogs and Twitter, the Miami Book Fair International continues to affirm the power of the written word -- specifically, those that are printed on paper and stacked between two covers.

Between September 27 and October 4, Allegheny Conference on Community Development CEO Mike Langley will be among 87 cyclists pedaling from Washington, D.C. to downtown Pittsburgh along the C&O Canal Towpath and the Great Allegheny Passage. The 335-mile hi

When you're a mom, sometimes it's hard to talk about anything other than life as a mom. Nowadays, you don't have to hope your neighbor is willing to listen. Mom conversations by the thousands take place every day on blogs.

Every once in a while folks in the journalism business get their shorts in a knot for what can seem to be no apparent reason.     The latest knot is about whether the mainstream media (newspapers, television and radio, as opposed to blogs and tabloid p