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COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Even the leisure class has its occupational hazards: tennis elbow, hangovers, red tide, gout. The Palm Beach diarrhea outbreak of 1996 was the result of a bad crop of raspberries; a few weeks ago, off the coast of Bermuda, a sportfisherman was impaled by a blue marlin as it vaulted across the stern of his boat. Now, from Martha's Vineyard, comes word of a new resort-town scourge. Dr. Rocco Monto, the island's only orthopedist, says that, over the past six years, more than six hundred people in the area have fractured their fifth metatarsals. (The fifth metatarsal is the bone that parallels the outer edge of the foot.) As...
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