"This is an alarming situation, " said Dipankar Ghose, a New Delhi-based rhino-conservation expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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This is particularly alarming because we are entering an era of personalized medicine where treatments and even medicines are being tailored to the individual genetic makeup of a patient.

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"This case is not unique as sadly there has been an alarming increase in the number of horses being abandoned across the UK, " said a spokeswoman for The Horse Trust.

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The lack of such an inquiry is particularly alarming in this case, because the interests of the BC scholars go well beyond the typical case of a scholar who sees a professional need to resist a subpoena in order to protect the reputation or privacy rights of those who sit for interviews.

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Sir Trevor Brooking, the Football Association's director of development, told the BBC this trend is depriving English youngsters of first-team opportunities and has led to an alarming lack of depth in key areas, particularly up front.

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Obviously, the future of this business is in question as the BP Deepwater Horizon debacle continues to leak crude into the Gulf of Mexico at an alarming rate.

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This comes on hot on the heels of complaints from users that the iOS 6.1 update is draining battery at an alarming rate, and causing handsets to overheat.

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