ACROSS AMERICA — First, let’s dispatch the news about all of the babies born this week with a special birthday in common on “twosday” — 2/22/22 — a palindrome day that won’t come back around for another 400 years.

Some cultures attach spiritual meaning to palindrome days; others just appreciate their symmetry. By those measures, a pair of twins born in California won the palindrome day lottery.

Their names are Minika and Mishika, and their names mean “beautiful and precious gifts from God,” according to the twins’ parents, Rahul Taneja and Prachi Adlakha.

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