One possibility is that years of cell phone usage has conditioned us to anticipate the arrival of new messages.

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But earlier in the year Western diplomats said a major alert had been triggered by the arrival in Indonesia of a suspected al-Qaeda cell.

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Security will be extraordinarily tight, and his arrival in Virginia will be announced only after he is in a cell, officials said.

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