Новости за 22.03.2012

For all the ladies out there who could care less about March Madness, Zimbio.com has made a March Madness Challenge that might catch your interest. The online celebrity magazine has made a 2012 TV Couples March Madness Challenge. So hold onto the money you were going to hand into your office pool, and make one with your friends as your favorite TV couples battle it out to win the title of greatest TV couple.

Check out this photo video highlighting the various matches from day 2 of the 2012 Sony Ericsson Open. Check back throughout the tournament for more photo videos from Tennis Now!

A women's group has mounted spirited opposition to a prospective nomination of former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers, 57, to be president of the World Bank. The group, UltraViolet, which claims 300,000 members, announced collecting more than 42,000  signatures against Summers given his past history of slighting women economists - including Christine Romer, 53, another prospective nominee - as well as women's proficiency for the sciences.

Tennis Now's Ted LePak takes a look at the women who have made the most money in the history of the WTA. All these women are millionaires but the number one spot has made $34,883,357!

Gujarat inked an MoU with consortium of Japanese and Singaporean companies for setting up the Asia's largest seawater desalination plant.

Russia is facing a demographic crisis that threatens its very existence. In the 20 years since the Soviet Union's dissolution, the new Russia has ridden a startling economic trajectory, drastically altering the former communist empire. But among unexpected developments in post-Soviet Russia, the phenomenon of a declining population has proven most intractable. Russia is caught in the grip of a devastating and highly anomalous peacetime population crisis, wrote Nicholas Eberstadt, an adviser at the National Bureau of Asian Research... Читать дальше...

For the New York Jets, trading for Tim Tebow was a mistake. It has nothing to do with how good or bad Tebow is. His slow delivery and inability to complete more than half of his passes aren't relevant. His good guy demeanor, Christian values and ability to bring people together don't count. His impressive record as a starter, his knack for the improbable comeback isn't what needs to be discussed. His arrival drives a wedge into a fractured locker room and a fractured fan base and that will be the anchor that sinks the Jets season.

Growing up in Tel Aviv, pianist Alon Yavnai was exposed to a range of musical traditions including Middle Eastern, jazz, and Latin (his mother is Argentine). Since then, the Grammy-winner has experimented with other influences, touring with a Cape Verdean dance band, for instance, and collaborating with accomplished musicians such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma and […]

Three high-profile founders-- Gary Kremen, founder of Match.com, Eric Ryan, co-founder of Method, and Nick Swinmurn, founder of Zappos.com-- discuss how they got their businesses started at the Wall Street Journal How I Built It event in San Francisco March 21, hosted by the Journal's small-business editor Vanessa O'Connell. #HIB12012

EL-P talks about his new album which features Killer Mike, Danny Brown, and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire.  Cancer for Cure comes out on May 22nd on Fat Possom Records.

Flosstradamus shows Wired how to make electronic music.