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The car owner who has a 2002 Mercury Grand Marquis probably paid about $30,000 for it. The car is probably worth $5,000 now. A person with modest experience and skills with auto repairs can rebuild that car for about $5,000. The car will need new breaks. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Buy a New Car When You Can Build One? | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

'I think they were not to be found.' ROBERT BLEAKLEY, father of William Bleakley, after the Coast Guard ended a three-day search for his son and two NFL players, Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, whose boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

Philippe Marquis, who leads the French archaeological team, points to a 26-ft.-deep (8 m deep) pit carved from the hill that exposes a cross section riddled with holes - like an ant farm pressed between panes of glass. He shows how looters dug wells, then tunneled horizontally when a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

As Marquis contemplates the mysteries of Tepe Zargaran that he will never be able to unravel, a shout rings out from the other side of the excavation site. Ahmad Basir, a grinning 19-year-old, holds aloft a clay urn the length of his forearm. It took Basir several hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

The West Hollywood sun is beating down on the patio, a cold wind is blowing through, and Richard Branson is hosting a long lunch poolside at the Sunset Marquis hotel. "It's an old rock-'n'-roll hotel, which has--it's gone out of fashion a little bit, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Branson's Flight Plan | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

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