Opinion: Where Robert E. Lee's Portrait Belongs

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Nuggets general manager Calvin Booth forecasted a scenario in which Denver doesn’t retain Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in free agency Wednesday night, expressing confidence in Christian Braun as the potential next man up. “I think we have to look at everything, and the nature of free agency is, he’s unrestricted,” Booth said of Caldwell-Pope during a Ball Arena news conference after the first round of the draft. “So we can try to bring him back, and if he doesn’t want to come back or opts to go somewhere else, that’s his prerogative.

The Nuggets believe they will have a better season by taking the kid from Goodyear. Welcome to Denver, DaRon Holmes II. The Nuggets do not expect you to solve mysteries like Sherlock, smile like Katie or punch like Larry. They simply need you to protect the rim and drain some 3s when MVP Nikola Jokic is on the bench.

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A subcontractor mechanic who worked on Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner alleged he was retaliated against after raising concerns about work he observed on the plane, according to a statement from attorneys representing him as a whistleblower. Richard Cuevas claimed he observed “substandard manufacturing and maintenance practices” on the 787’s forward pressure bulkhead—a dome shaped piece located in the jet’s nose that’s critical to maintaining cabin pressure, according to a statement by attorneys Debra Katz and Lisa Banks. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Read More: Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Found Dead Amid Depositions Against Plane Company In 2023, Cuevas was contracted by an aviation staffing company to do repair work for Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.

Few domesticated animals have flourished as well as rabbits have when reintroduced into the wild—a phenomenon that has often had economic and ecological consequences. And now a team of researchers has figured out why rabbits have had such success readapting to nature. In a study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on June 21, researchers worked to determine what factors make the furry critters such masterful colonizers of countries around the world. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Generally, it’s difficult for a domestic animal to survive in the wild, according to a press release about the study from Sweden’s Uppsala University, where one of the study’s senior authors, Leif Andersson, works.