Morning Whip, 3/27/05

Happy Easter, everyone.

We’re working our way towards the Final Four on both the Men’s and Women’s side. Illinois[*1] and Louisville[*2] punched their tickets for St. Louis on the men’s side, and LSU[*3] , Duke[*4] , Baylor[*5] , and North Carolina[*6] advance to the Regional Championships on the women’s side.
The Women’s Kansas City Regional kicks off tonight, where we’ll see Michigan State-Vanderbilt and Connecticut-Stanford. Snookums and I will be there.

Closer to the Palatial Abode, congratulations to Washburn University for winning the Division II women’s basketball national championship[*7] .

OOPS! Secret data returned to thief[*8] .

Jeremy Rifkin is worried about “chimeric experimentation[*9] ,” with an op-ed that begins with the line
“What happens when you cross a human and a mouse?”
Can someone tell me why we take this guy seriously? If you want to understand the moral implications, you’re better off reading Terry Pratchett’s The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents[*10] or watch The Secret of NIMH[*11] than listening to Rifkin, who’s been freaked about bioengineering[*12] for quite a while. Someone needs to explain to Jeremy how genetics works . . .