Word: sager
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ruth Sager, a pioneer in the field of cancer genetics and founder of the Department of Cancer Genetics at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, died on Saturday in her home in Brookline, Mass...
...death, Sager had been with Dana-Farber--which is affiliated with the Harvard Medical School (HMS)--since 1975, when she came to HMS as a professor of cellular genetics...
...Sager's career spanned four decades and was instrumental to the development of cancer research. Her friends and colleagues said she will be sorely missed...
...became an instant ethics lesson for a generation of journalists after her 1980 Pulitzer-prizewinning story on "Jimmy," an eight-year-old heroin addict, was found to have been fabricated. Now she has resurfaced in the pages of GQ magazine, telling her story to onetime colleague and lover Mike Sager. Cooke says that as a child she learned to lie as a way of avoiding her strict father's temper. Unfortunately, liars who indulge their vice publicly and get caught don't have many career options. "I'm in a situation where cereal has become a viable dinner choice," says...
...Samuel Thier, president of Massachusetts General, hopes to get that number down to 1,000. A first-year saving of $47 million out of a total combined budget of $1.1 billion seems to confirm what critics of the old teaching-hospital model, such as Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, have long maintained: these blue-chip institutions had fat "marbled throughout the system like a prime steak...