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Nearsightedness in the U.S. and Europe is said to range between 20% and 40% of the population.
How to Make a Spectacle of Yourself in Frames With No Glass in Them Alex Frangos 2011
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Nearsightedness could have been fatal for people whose ability to survive depended on spotting dinner off in the distance.
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Nearsightedness could have been fatal for people whose ability to survive depended on spotting dinner off in the distance.
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Nearsightedness could have been fatal for people whose ability to survive depended on spotting dinner off in the distance.
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Nearsightedness could have been fatal for people whose ability to survive depended on spotting dinner off in the distance.
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Nearsightedness could have been fatal for people whose ability to survive depended on spotting dinner off in the distance.
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Nearsightedness if correctable is not disqualifying.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Repeal, Don’t Defend: 2009
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Nearsightedness, or myopia, is not a congenital defect, but is usually acquired owing to excessive near work which requires that the eye muscles constantly direct both eyes inward to see near objects.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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Nearsightedness can be remedied by wearing concave glasses, since they separate the light and move the focus farther away.
General Science Bertha M. Clark
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Nearsightedness seems to increase from class to class, until in the upper departments, there are sometimes as high as fifty per cent of the pupils thus afflicted.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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