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.

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.

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.