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...ba href=/sleep/a/b’s watery surface, I listen to a radio voice reciting a palindrome.

"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

" I trace each letter of the seven words forward and then backward and find that indeed they spell out the same phrase whichever direction they are read.

The palindrome leads to news of a plan that Panama’s president has to deepen and widen the canal.

Nothing, it seems, stays the same forever.

World news then segues to local weather.

Snow is on the way.

Four to six inches by tomorrow night.

"How does coffee and an English muffin with fig jam sound?

" I say to Kit, who is still cozy under the covers.

The wintry forecast has convinced me to fuel up with a light breakfast before walking.

Then, covered in layers from head to toe save for the space between my nose and mouth, I step out into a cold wind.

Three weeks into my morning "Walking to Sydney" exercise routine on local country roads, I figure I’ve walked a quarter of the distance from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Never mind if my calculations aren’t exactly nautically accurate, I tell myself.

I’ve walked from winter into spring, and surely that’s some kind of milestone.

Along my circuit, I spot a small bird with a patch of yellow feathers lying in the grass next to the road.

Later, aided by Peterson’s Field Guide to Eastern Birds, I identify it as a Confusing Fall Warbler.

Its curious name leads me to wonder if the bird died of despair in midair.

Had it arrived on the cusp of spring only to find that, like a palindrome, it...

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People with narcolepsy face ba href=/sleep/a/b problems every day.

While its main symptom is extreme daytime ba href=/sleep/a/biness, many patients also experience sudden loss of muscle tone with emotion.

Isaiah Washington, who stars on Grey's Anatomy, is reaching out to the estimated 200,000 Americans with narcolepsy, most of whom haven't been diagnosed.

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...ba href=/sleep/a/b, but three stayed in the basement.Wearing boxers and a T-shirt, with only a couple of hours ba href=/sleep/a/b, Mr.

Jarboe walked from his bedroom to answer the knock on the front door of his home in Tracys Landing.He was greeted by the long silver barrel of a gun.Three men pushed their way inside, ordering Mr.

Jarboe to the ground and quietly asking, "Where's all your money at?

"Unknown to the intruders, one of the women in the basement, Tina Marie Beane, came upstairs to use the bathroom and saw Mr.

Jarboe on the floor with a gun to his head.She sneaked back downstairs and told another friend to call 911.But it took 10 minutes for the first two police officers to arrive at the house on tiny Duck Lane, which sits near the far southern end of the county surrounded by woods, marsh and the Chesapeake Bay.In the meantime, the three intruders ordered everyone they could find into one bedroom.

There, two of the men tied their hands with cell phone charger cords, demanding to know where the "real money" was and repeatedly threatening to kill them.Police burst into the house and caught one of the intruders, Samora M.

Proctor, red-handed in a front room.

The other two, Tariq K.

Price and Darrell J.

Allison, jumped out a rear bathroom window and ran, but were caught within hours.Friday night, a county jury convicted Price, 27, of 29 counts, including armed robbery, felony assault, theft and handgun charges.

The Upper Marlboro resident will be sentenced in June.

Proctor, of Takoma Park, and Al...