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...stream of all-terrain warnings--about potential attacks on land, in the air and underwater. Specifically, New Yorkers were told that the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and their apartment buildings could be targeted; the country's 103 nuclear power plants were placed on heightened alert; and new, cryptic FBI dispatches warned of the remote possibility of small-aircraft kamikazes and scuba-diver offensives--perhaps, a source tells TIME, to place a limpet mine on the hull of a cruise ship...
...title character (starting with A Child Called Noah; 1972), I would often be asked what it was like having an autistic brother. I never figured out how to respond. The answer I always gave--that I had never known any other life or any other brother--seemed cryptic and somehow unsatisfactory...
...other hand, Abu Zubaydah's mention of financial institutions as potential targets was bolstered, says an official, by "cryptic references to banks" gleaned elsewhere by U.S. intelligence. "These kind of things are not taken lightly," says an official...
...other hand, while Zubaydah had made vague allusions to other potential attacks against the West, his only specific reference was a threat to banks in the Northeastern U.S. And the notion of attacking banks was bolstered, says an official, by "cryptic references to banks" gleaned by U.S. intelligence from separate, highly sensitive sources focused on Al Qaeda networks. Also, on Wednesday, April 17, the Middle East Broadcast Corp. broadcast a new videotape of Osama Bin Laden in which he gloated over the damage done to the U.S. stock market and economy by the September 11 attacks...
ALTERNATE ENDING In the original, the alien (he may be just a mental patient) played by Kevin Spacey meets his fate, prompting his doctor friend (Jeff Bridges) to reunite with his son. The alternate is more cryptic, leaving Bridges staring in wonder at the night...