"From the birth of the Lebanese state, Tripoli has resisted being a part of Lebanon, " said Ahmad al QasQas, a media representative for the Lebanese chapter of Hizb al-Tahrir, a pan-Arab Islamist party with aspirations for one nation spanning the region under the rule of an emir.

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Spanning the San Francisco Bay Area Region, the new Smarter Traveler research initiative collects and analyzes traffic data generated from existing sensors in roads, toll booths, bridges and intersections.

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Apart from this, it also jointly holds agreements with Ernvest Ltd. for extracting oil and gas deposits in area spanning 650, 000 acre in the region.

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The company is also exploring ways to capture carbon for underground storage, and it has proposed a massive 550-mile power line spanning from West Virginia to New Jersey to help alleviate the region's power needs.

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