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Ordering eyeglasses question

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By XOldies Jock
| straightdope.com
October 14, 2026, 7:25pm 1 When specifying glasses for my wife online I notice that when I check the “Progressive bifocal” box a number of eyeglass styles are not available. I can’t see any distinguishing features about them. So what is the reason some do not work?
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Ordering eyglasses question

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By XOldies Jock
| straightdope.com
October 14, 2026, 7:25pm 1 When specifying glasses for my wife online I notice that when I check the “Progressive bifocal” box a number of eyeglass styles are not available. I can’t see any distinguishing features about them. So what is the reason some do not work?
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Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer (10/13/2026)

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By XOldies Jock
| straightdope.com
Several days ago, the Vatican announced that he was having a lung nodule biopsied, and it looks like they did this and then went ahead with the removal of that lobe of his lung when it turned up positive. My dad had this done in early 2023, 8 months before he died from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 90. Dad was a city firefighter for 36 years and raised by smokers, although AFAIK he never smoked. He declined further treatment, because the surgery appeared to get it all, and his doctors agreed.
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