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A Swedish aid worker who was abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been found dead, the Foreign Ministry and the United Nations confirmed on Wednesday.

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version April 14, 2005, 8:04 a.m. Ladies Who LunchAt the Matrix Awards. It is the ultimate ladies-who-lunch Manhattan get-together: This week, the Matrix Awards were given out by New York Women in Communications, Inc. at the Waldorf-Astoria. Over 1,400 women and a scattering of men packed the grand ballroom, even filling tables on the two rarely used over-hanging balconies. The event raised more than $900,000, which funds the group’s activities. A portion goes to the New York Women in Communications Foundation, which awards scholarships to college...

Geographer of the Male Genome The notion of the Y sex chromosome as a genetic wasteland still entices biologists. David C. Page has spent a good part of his career knocking down that myth By Gary Stix DAVID C. PAGE: THE Y FILES Led what he calls an "anal-compulsive" effort to sequence the Y chromosome, a process akin to drawing a map of a hall of mirrors. The Y sequence shows that men and women differ as much in their genetic makeup as do, say, human and chimpanzee males. On the fascination with the "rotting Y": "It has to do...