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| | The New Yorker : fact : content |
 | | There are many ways to get from point A to point B in New York, and, because of all the permutations, anyone can be a route-selection expert, or at least an enthusiast. |
 | | There are features that we associate with maps or navigation which have little bearing on the kind of road directions favored by MapQuest and OnStar. |
 | | The driver had no idea how to get there, and she had a fluid, if spirited, view of geography (she insisted, for example, that the Arabian Peninsula is part of Africa), so I got Nebenzahl to give me directions over the phone: “Take Lake Shore to Sheridan. |
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