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The New York Times Frugal Traveler in residence Seth Kugel visits Austin with $100 and only left $4.51 in the...

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Christoph Niemann, an illustrator for The New York Times, practiced running and sketching for months before participating in Sunday's marathon in New York City.

At mile three, he drew himself as a battery running low on energy. But he and his sketchpad did made it to the finish line.

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Hamermesh is an economics professor at UT with a new book coming out this month called Beauty Pays. Yesterday, Hamermesh wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times discussing his philosophy around looks and the workplace.

Beginning in 2009, filmmaker Andrew Rossi spent over a year embedded in the The New York Times newsroom.

The resulting documentary, Page One, records the paper's struggles to remain relevant in a new media landscape.

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The government in Syria says it has the upper hand in the crackdown on protesters. The government has used tanks and troops to put down demonstrations in cities across the country.

Anthony Shadid, of The New York Times, talks to Renee Montagne about what he witnessed Monday when he was allowed into Syria for a few hours.

The family that controls the Empire State Building wants to include the art deco landmark in a new publicly traded real estate company, according to The New York Times.

If so, the public would be able to be shares.

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The New York Times has twice experimented with making some readers pay for online content, and twice it has backed away.

On Thursday morning, the newspaper's executives announced they would make the most loyal readers pay to access its website, though a lot of casual readers would not pay a cent.

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Tom DeLay was sentenced to three years in prison this afternoon by Texas state court judge Pat Priest. The three years were for the charge of conspiring to launder money; for the money laundering itself DeLay received ten years' probation.

DeLay was taken into custody immediately after the sentencing. He is expected to post bond of $10,000 and appeal the conviction.

His attorney, Dick DeGuerin, has said that he may argue that the Texas law under which DeLay was convicted is unconstitutional because of the Supreme Court's decision of 2010.