Zero-friction commerce in the global marketplace: In Brazil, packets of flour and sugar often don't have bar codes, but cocaine now does. Police have captured packets of cocaine bearing bar codes from a shanty town near Rio. It is not clear whether the codes serve any practical purpose, or whether they are merely decorative.

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