Perhaps one of the reasons you seldom see these systems in the U.S. is that if there were to be a leak between the heat pipe fluid—the refrigerant fluid—and the potable, drinkable, showerable water, it would be more than a little bit toxic.

I remember days of guys angrily denying being a bowcat (do people still call each other bowcats?), of boys being called pussies for going down on their girlfriends while their girlfriends were called sluts for giving them head.

The most important places and attractions of the city (i.e., points of interest) are identified by icons on the map.

During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch'e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t'ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.