Communal showers, changing-rooms and saunas are perfect breeding-grounds for the highly infectious fungi that spread foot and nail infection: up to 1, 500 fungally infected skin fragments per square metre have been found in some leisure facilities.

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She once visited the emergency room with a puncture wound from a nail in her foot.

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While this might oversimplify a story of mismatched interests, values, and capabilities, I think as far as 20, 000-foot view summaries go, it hits the nail on the head.

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Although that report prompted nail salons to clean the screens on those foot baths more often, it doesn't mean that in the land of pedicure pampering, you can just relax and enjoy the polishing.

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OK. Nail the gas, and at 3, 600 rpm you get a triumphant 302 foot-pounds of torque.

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