ABOUT A YEAR AGO, ALEX NEWELL HAD JUST RETURNED to New York City after the pre-Broadway tryout of the musical Shucked in Salt Lake City. A Utah alt-weekly was already calling Newell's number "Independently Owned," sung from the perspective of the self-reliant whiskey distiller Lulu, a "knockout show-stopper." Broadway agreed: in June, Newell won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, becoming one of the first two out nonbinary people to win in an acting category, alongside Some Like It Hot's J. Harrison Ghee.
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In 2018, field researchers in Uganda came across an unusual sight: a female chimpanzee carrying an infant she had recently given birth to that was affected by albinism, an extremely uncommon condition in this species that gives their fur a striking white color.
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Fanfare for the gentle man
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