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That the appearance of media reports on synthetic cannabinoids in the U.S. appears to lag poison control center calls is not surprising.

In the new college football order — where the SEC rules and the Pac-12 seems sleek and cool — the Big Ten's plodding style, no matter the number of spread offenses, appears to lag behind.

Family compositions now include "good friends [who] join forces as part of the 'voluntary kin' movement, sharing medical directives, wills, even adopting one another legally" or "single people live alone and proudly consider themselves families of one — more generous and civic-minded than so-called 'greedy marrieds.'" Political discourse appears to lag behind this lived reality.

To date, however, research in chitin as a biomaterial appears to lag far behind that of its close relative, chitosan, due to the perceived difficulty in processing chitin.

Numerous variants of this theory, giving rise to various mathematical models, have been proposed; still, the acceptance or popularity of the surface-renewal theory appears to lag behind the other two theories.

Interestingly, the recovery of peripheral blood count appears to lag behind the survival benefit (Fig. 1 and 2).

It is also worth noting that other industrialized countries, such as Germany and Britain, don't use hedonic pricing for computers, and this is one reason that their economies appear to lag behind the United States' economy..

BELGRADE, Serbia — An ardent advocate of the European Union and a populist rival seemed headed for a runoff in Serbia's presidential election on Sunday, while the governing Democratic Party appeared to lag in parliamentary races here.

In the months since President Viktor Yanukovych abruptly abandoned a trade and political pact with the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia, Brussels has appeared to lag behind more aggressive moves by the Kremlin.

It is also worth noting that other industrialized countries, such as Germany and Britain, don't use hedonic pricing for computers, and this is one reason that their economies appear to lag behind the United States' economy.

It's interesting that one sport that does still seem to harbour personal vendettas – where being part of a team often means nothing of the sort – is Formula One, which, for all its futuristic tech, can appear to lag behind in the modern-values stakes.