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Last week in Washington, DC, the temperatures got into the intrepid spring range, which means that daffodils are coming up in front of my house and my allergies are making my sinuses miserable. This happens every year: for a handful of days in the winter I long for warmer weather, and then it arrives and I miss the clear cool air!

But this year we're expecting a form of spring entertainment we have not experienced since 1987, namely: the return of the 17-year locusts. Last time I saw the red-eyed monsters, I was a junior in college, interning in the publications office of a much-too-conservative think tank during the Reagan administration. It was impossible to walk through Farragut Square downtown without stepping on bunches of them. These things are big, some more than two inches long, with bright red eyes and beautiful lacy wings, and whether you love or hate them, you don't want to hear them crunching underfoot!

My children have only seen these locusts on display under glass in the Field Museum in Chicago. I had tried saving one in a glass jar in the freezer, but it didn't remain intact through my moving from Washington to Chicago and back again. Before that summer break in college, I was several years younger than my younger son is now. And the next time they're back, my older son will be older than I was when he was born. So, like the spring, this is something I am looking forward to...at least, until the novelty wears off.

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This Week's Television Listings

• Tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time, CBS will show a rerun of "Extreme" on CSI Miami. Here is the official synopsis of the episode:

  A young woman is thrown over the railing of a parking garage, but the investigation into her death uncovers evidence that she was killed before the fall and had likely been kidnapped. Back at the lab, Delko gets into trouble when he inadvertently interferes with a case after stumbling across a car-theft ring.

• Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, CBS will rerun the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "XX". The official synopsis states:

  A mutilated female body is discovered tied to the undercarriage of a bus carrying prisoners from a women's correctional facility after a severed arm flies out from beneath the vehicle and strikes a car. Catherine leads the investigation and at first believes the woman was escaping, but the evidence increasingly points to murder. Back in town, Warrick probes the death of a gambler who was stabbed multiple times in his brother's kitchen.

• Friday night at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Spike TV will show the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "High and Low". The official synopsis states:

  Grissom, Warrick, and Nick investigate the case of man who apparently was murdered and pushed off a six story building. Grissom's involvement is cut short by renewed hearing problems. Catherine looks into the murder of man outside of his regular bar.

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