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Babe, wake up. A new Kamala accent just dropped. It takes a thespian of prodigious talent to pull off so many spot-on accents, so many unique bits and characters, of all different ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Vice President Kamala Harris is such an actress, one who shares a range with the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams, someone who can shed their skin on a dime and inhabit someone entirely different than themselves. To celebrate Harris’s Oscar-worthy skills, we want to give readers a quick guide to all her fake accents, from MLK orator to the wise Jamaican...

Close window Published online: 5 July 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060703-9 Rats taking cannabis get taste for heroinStudy suggests cannabis-users may be vulnerable to harder drugs.Michael HopkinNeuroscientists have found that rats are more likely to get hooked on heroin if they have previously been given cannabis. The studies suggest a biological mechanism — at least in rats — for the much-publicized effect of cannabis as a 'gateway' to harder drugs. The discovery hints that the brain system that produces pleasurable sensations when exposed to heroin may be 'primed' by earlier exposure to cannabis, say researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm,...