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...Saen's National Museum is well worth a visit if history and archaeology hold some appeal for you. Established in 1957 near the crumbling majesty of Wat Chedi Luang, it contains a wealth of fascinating snippets about the Golden Triangle's bloody, tumultuous past. At its heyday in the 13th century, Chiang Saen was one of the most important cities in the Lanna kingdom; it boasts plenty of sites of archaeological significance, some dating to the prehistoric era. The museum has a fine collection of Buddha images, stone inscriptions and ceramics, as well as a section on the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Cuts | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...tragically familiar--but no one could have imagined the setting. What now ranks among the worst school shootings in history took place at Johann Gutenberg High School in Erfurt, a quiet 13th century cathedral town in the state of Thuringia in eastern Germany. "It's the kind of thing you expect to happen in America," said a visibly upset anchorman on German television. With its tough gun-control laws and a murder rate less than a quarter of the U.S.'s, Germany is not exactly a hotbed of random gun violence. But just as with the 1996 shooting that killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Columbine | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

...know how buildings don’t have a 13th floor because it’s bad luck? Well, our room doesn’t have an ethernet jack, because computers are for nerds and pedophiles...

Author: By The CRIMSON Stizzaff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fifteen strange and horrific things some guy told me when all I wanted to do was look at his room before the housing lottery | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

...captain John Cinelli, among the league’s top-ranked in the 3000 steeplechase, placed 13th in his division with a run of 9:16.94—two seconds off his season’s best from last week. That was good for 28th overall out of all college runners at Penn...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Track Learns From Final Tuneups | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...Tigers are a definite threat, as they are looking to avenge the Black and White’s upset at the Knecht Cup on April 13th. Though Princeton beat Radcliffe in the Villanova Invitational the very next day, the Black and White have already shown that No. 1 Wisconsin is not the only crew that can claw at the Tigers and are preparing for another surprise win on Saturday...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Lightweight Crew Tops Struggling Georgetown | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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