Here are 5 things I learned reading: Narconomics, By: Tom Wainwright

1. Nearly 100% of cocaine comes from Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru.

2. The cocaine market is less like a traditional commodity, and more like art.

3. Prison might just work.

4. Singer sewing machines were the first known franchise.

5. Honduras is where the term Banana Republic comes from.

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Here are 5 things I learned reading: M Train, By: Patti Smith

1. Sometimes reality is greater than our dreams ever were.

2. Art is like a lot of other jobs – most of it is work.

3. The gift of books in the house can be an enormous blessing in the life of a child.

4. “The answer is in a book somewhere.”

5. “Paul Bowles once said that Tangier is a place where the past and present exist simultaneously in proportionate degree.”

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