Morning Whip, 4/12/05

Contributed by: filbert Tuesday, April 12 2005 @ 05:14 AM CST

Third-largest opening day crowd in Kauffman Stadium history sees the Kansas City Royals blown away[*1] by the Seattle Mariners. Sigh. Joe Pozanski sees a silver lining[*2] , though.

Low-fat diets may be depriving kids of necessary vitamins[*3] .

Purdue extends its Rube Goldberg Contest dynasty with its third straight championship[*4] .

There’s a huge scandal brewing up north in Canada. Here’s what it’s aboot . . .[*5]

U.S. to start requiring American Citizens returning from Mexico and Canada to have valid passports[*6] .

Don’t want genetically altered rice in your beer? That’s OK, Anheuser-Busch is on your side[*7] . Don’t want rice in your beer? Well . . .

Related: The St. Louis beer giant has increased its stake[*8] in China’s Tsingtao brewery. Makes sense to me.

Regular readers may know that we keep half an eye on Wal-Mart, which rarely gets positive press. This Townhall editorial[*9] is an exception.

Finally in The Whip today: The Incredible Popeman[*10] ?