• It might not be as pleasant as grass between the toes, but it is very convenient.

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  • Dr. Trepal explains that the foot contains five metatarsal bones, one behind each of the toes.

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  • Mr. BAKER: Generally, the biggest difference is the closing of the toes or the seaming of the sock.

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  • Warm-up: This phase involves jogging, backward jogging on the toes, high-knee skipping and two zigzagging and sliding exercises.

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  • He made a few more dashes with the pen, and a cute, floppy bow materialized, tying up the toes like a present.

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  • The mother stoops in a bowlegged pose, turns her feet outward, and heaves her huge muscular frame toward the toes of her canvas shoes.

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  • With a dreamy look on his face, he tipped his bottle above his shiny black dress shoes and watched the wine dribble onto the toes.

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  • This treads on the toes of the Defence Committee a bit - but addresses a very real issue which has cost the taxpayer many billions.

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  • The toes of women's shoes were often tapered so that when the tips appeared from her skirts, the wearer's feet appeared to be small and dainty.

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  • Against all that, rural rage over the flag and the fact that Mr Barnes had trodden on the toes of the state teachers' union seemed unimportant.

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  • What causes it: Inflammation of the plantar fascia, a thick band of tissue that runs along the bottom of your foot from the heel to the toes.

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  • Dr Cruse and his colleagues first asked six healthy volunteers to imagine either squeezing their right hand or wiggling the toes of both feet when they were presented with an audible tone.

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  • On the other hand, if we buy shoes a size too large so that they are wide enough in the toes, the heel slips out, which can be annoying or even dangerous.

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  • The EPA also argues that, by regulating carbon dioxide, it would effectively be regulating fuel economy, and therefore stepping on the toes of the Department of Transportation, which already does that through its Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE regulations.

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  • The beach for most Australians is not just a place to cool off on a hot day, it is a place for the tentative dips of the toes in the shallows of early childhood and a place where teenage rites of passage played out.

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  • Thain, a former banker at Goldman Sachs Group (nyse: GS - news - people ) (which incidentally advised the two parties in the transaction), has been studying ways to boost electronic trading on the exchange without stepping on the toes of its floor traders.

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  • The main sign of the condition is the big toe pointing towards the other toes, which forces out the bone attached to it - the first metatarsal.

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  • The big toe often drifts toward the second toe and can affect the position of the other toes.

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  • Liam Ridgewell, possibly distracted by Johnson's return, allowed Hoilett to nick the ball off his toes and the Canadian youngster coolly took the ball past Foster and slotted into an empty net.

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  • Especially once the biggest social network in the world started dipping its toes in the VoIP pool.

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  • Whether enjoying a microbrewery ale at a Gastro Pub to sampling the latest Molecular Gastronomy marvel, people all over the country are dipping their toes into the oceans of new dining experiences.

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  • The company is just dipping its toes into the space with the Smart Display DA220HQL, which it's showing off here at Mobile World Congress.

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  • You could follow it from there by looking at the empty spaces in a solid line of trees, the rootballs waving their witchy root toes in the air.

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  • Hayden Mullins soon had a chance to double the lead after a poor clearance by goalkeeper Taylor, but Alex Bruce took the ball off his toes as he lined up the shot.

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  • Even the more successful churches are kept on their toes by the market approach of Pentecostalism, in which each congregation is encouraged to be more or less responsible for its own development.

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  • After a fiery Goan curry lunch, or a sunset cocktail, served on the fort ramparts, look in on the in-fort chapel, then dip your toes in the shallows across the river at Aswem beach.

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  • Sources say that he also claimed to have been suspended from the ceiling by his arms, his toes barely touching the ground.

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  • Side effects of the drug include skin rashes and infections in the fingers and toes.

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  • Her father reclined across the back seat, pain medication making his sentences syrupy, his bare toes at the end of a heavy full-leg cast resting on the door handle.

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  • The M100 did not jump whole-hog into tech, but dipped their toes in the water and established new positions in two technology names--one in bellwether memory chipmaker Micron Technology and another more substantial one in Israeli information-technology services company Ness Technologies.

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