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PATERSON, N.J. - Mention America's historic landmarks and most people will envision battlefields, statues or beautiful scenery, not a crumbling, graffiti-covered shell of a ball field surrounded by abandoned cars, broken glass and piles of garbage.

PATERSON, N.J. - Mention America's historic landmarks and most people will envision battlefields, statues or beautiful scenery, not a crumbling, graffiti-covered shell of a ball field surrounded by abandoned cars, broken glass and piles of garbage.

IF YOU VISIT • Sleeping: With over-the-top formality and modern English decor, Number Sixteen is surrounded by the trendy shops and colourful restaurants of South Kensington — and it’s a short walk from Harrods (splurge; firmdalehotels.com).

IF YOU GO • Getting there: By car, Jenny Lake Lodge is about 1,600 kilometres from Victoria. Estimated driving time: 18 hours if you take Interstate 90 and Interstate 15.

The Associated Press LONDON — Tourists, exchange students, masters of the financial universe and other business travellers: It’s time to buckle up.

MIAMI - Carnival Corp. says all maritime interests must assist without question those in trouble at sea, a duty that would not include reimbursing the U.S.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Fleet Week, New York City's annual ode to the sea, will be virtually devoid of white-capped sailors and tall ships this year thanks to federal budget cuts that have severely curtailed spending by the U.S. Navy.

PORTLAND, Ore. - The British and the Americans are quarreling — albeit with tongues in cheek — over territory again, this time over who has the world's smallest park. One, in Portland, Ore.

LANSING, Mich. - Michigan won approval Friday to build a second bridge between Detroit and Canada, a key step needed to start construction on the $3.

WARSAW, Poland - Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: a few buildings here and there, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The rest was blown up by the Germans in their onslaught against the Jews who took up arms against them.