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...study of antenatal drugs, saw an opportunity to address divided concerns about the medication. Collaborating with a large HMO in Israel, he and his multinational colleagues studied metoclopramide use in pregnant women and its association with babies' health outcomes - specifically, birth defects, premature birth, low birth weight, Apgar score (which provides an immediate measure of a baby's physical condition at birth) and infant death...
...William Apgar, a former U.S. assistant secretary of housing who recently returned to the Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, called the Cambridge residential situation “the classic Yogi Berra story—all those yuppies funneled in here expecting [diversity], and now it’s not the place they wanted...
...Apgar maintained that well-designed, interventionist programs are the only sure-fire solution to a deteriorating situation...
Building permits are issued sparingly, creating what Apgar called “a regulatory drag...
...Apgar was very good at defending my set-ups, but because he wasn’t doing much on his feet I never felt threatened during the match,” El-Hayek said. “I focused on maintaining motion and solid defense...