As one of the oldest universities in California, the University of Southern California has a long and storied history resulting in a number of modern traditions, some of which are outlined here: The colors of USC are cardinal and gold, which were approved by USC's third president, Rev. George W. White in 1895. USC's official fight song is Fight On, which was composed in 1922 by USC dental student Milo Sweet (with lyrics by Sweet and Glen Grant). The Trojan Shrine, better known as 'Tommy Trojan', is a bro ...

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University of Southern California, University of Southern California - Overview, University of Southern California - The University Park Campus, University of Southern California - Demographics, University of Southern California - Academics, University of Southern California - Academic Subdivisions, University of Southern California - Athletics, University of Southern California - Men's NCAA National Title, University of Southern California - Women's NCAA National Title, University of Southern California - Club sports, University of Southern California - The Marching Band, University of Southern California - Tradition, University of Southern California - Trophies, University of Southern California - Administration, University of Southern California - Student Government, University of Southern California - Campus Renovations, University of Southern California - Notable alumni faculty and students, University of Southern California - Trivia

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A Christian theological definition of Immortality according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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See also: Immortality , Christianity, Body Mind and Soul

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From his biogerontology work, De Grey believes there are seven root causes of cellular aging, or as he puts it, "the set of accumulated side effects from metabolism that eventually kills us,"[2] all of which are reversible. Among others, they include cell atrophy, cell death, and unwanted mutations. De Grey stated in March 2005 "if we are to bring about real regenerative therapies that will benefit not just future generations, but those of us who are alive today, we must encourage scientists to work on the problem of aging." William H ...

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Methuselah Mouse Prize, Methuselah Mouse Prize - Prize structure and current record holders, Methuselah Mouse Prize - Goals and expectations

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Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine. It is commonly claimed that life extension would destroy the planet with overpopulation. Leon Kass (chairman of the US President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005) has exemplified the anti-life extension view with the following statement: "simply to covet a prolonged life span for ourselves is both a sign and a cause of our failure to open ourselves to procreation and to any higher purpose. … [The] desire to prolong youthfulness is not only a childish de ...

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Life extension, Life extension - Strategies of Life Extension, Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine, Life extension - Calorie Restriction, Life extension - SENS Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, Life extension - Cryonics, Life extension - History of life extension and the Life Extension Movement, Life extension - Scientific Controversy about Life Extension, Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine, Life extension - Calorie Restriction, Life extension - SENS Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, Life extension - Cryonics, Life extension - Ethics and Politics of Life Extension, Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine, Life extension - SENS Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, Life extension - Cryonics, Life extension - Notes, Life extension - Books, Life extension - Scientific Journals

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Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine. Although Alex Comfort was an anti-aging gerontologist ahead of his time, as was Bernard Strehler, other "old guard" biogerontologists vehemently deny that aging is a disease. Possibly the most prominent biogerontologist making this denial is Leonard Hayflick, who determined that fibroblasts are limited to around 50 cell divisions. Hayflick reasons that aging is an unavoidable consequence of entropy. Dr. Denham Harman spent years experimenting with antioxidants, an ...

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In 1970, the American Aging Association was formed under the impetus of Denham Harman originator of the free radical theory of aging. Harman wanted an organization of biogerontologists that was devoted to research and to the sharing of information among scientists interested in extending human lifespan. Although humans have been seeking to extend their lives at least from the time of the ancient Sumerian king Gilgamesh, the 1982 bestselling book Life Extension (ISBN 044651229X) by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw popularized the phr ...

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Life extension, Life extension - Strategies of Life Extension, Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine, Life extension - Calorie Restriction, Life extension - SENS Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, Life extension - Cryonics, Life extension - History of life extension and the Life Extension Movement, Life extension - Scientific Controversy about Life Extension, Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine, Life extension - Calorie Restriction, Life extension - SENS Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, Life extension - Cryonics, Life extension - Ethics and Politics of Life Extension, Life extension - Anti-Aging Medicine, Life extension - SENS Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, Life extension - Cryonics, Life extension - Notes, Life extension - Books, Life extension - Scientific Journals

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Various myths tell the stories about the quest for rejuvenation. It was believed that magic or intervention of a supernatural power can bring back the youth and many mythical adventurers set out on a journey to do that, for themselves, their relatives or some authority that sent them. In some religions people were to be rejuvenated after death prior to placing them in heaven. The stories continued well into the 16th century. A famous Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León led the expedition around the Caribbean islands and into F ...

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Rejuvenation aging, Rejuvenation aging - Historical and Cultural Background, Rejuvenation aging - Modern developments, Rejuvenation aging - Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence SENS, Rejuvenation aging - Scientific Journal

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According to modern science, there are no natural laws preventing successful rejuvenation. Aging is an accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs. If any of that damage can be repaired, the result is rejuvenation. There have been many experiments which have been shown to increase the maximum life span of laboratory animals, thereby achieving life extension. A few experimental methods have had limited success in partially rejuvenating laboratory animals ...

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Bioethics is the ethics of biological science and medicine. Bioethics - Definition and scope. Bioethics concerns the ethical questions that arise in the relationships between biology, medicine, cybernetics, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments or technological innovations, and the timing of ...

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• Bioethics - Definition and scope
• Bioethics - Issues
• Bioethics - References general
• Bioethics - Muslim Bioethics
• Bioethics - Jewish Bioethics
• Bioethics - Christian Bioethics

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Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism, or the state of the organism after that event. Death - Interpretations of death. In almost all societies, death has one or several symbols associated with it. Common symbols of death in Western cultures include the grim reaper and the color black; conversely, in certain Eastern cultures, the color white is considered symbolic of death. The grave is a metonym for death. Biologically, death can occur to wholes, to parts, or to both. For exam ...

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• Death - Interpretations of death
• Death - Criteria of human death: medical religious and legal
• Death - When is a person dead?
• Death - The process of dying
• Death - Cell death
• Death - Physiological changes during the process of dying
• Death - Signs of approaching death
• Death - When death is imminent
• Death - When death occurs
• Death - Causes of death in the United States
• Death - Other notable causes of death in the United States 2002
• Death - What happens to humans after death?
• Death - Physiological consequences of human death
• Death - Settlement of dead human bodies
• Death - Personification of death
• Death - Unwritten customs and superstitions

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Schopenhauer appended a criticism to the first volume of his The World as Will and Representation. He wanted to show Kant's errors so that Kant's merits would be appreciated and his achievements would be furthered. The Neo-Kantianism movement received a strong impetus from this essay. Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Kant's Merits. According to Schopenhauer's essay, Kant's three main merits are as follows: The distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself. Including:

• Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Kant's Merits
• Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Kant's Faults
• Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Fundamental Error
• Schopenhauer's criticism of the Kantian philosophy - Secondary Errors

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The anthropology of religion involves the study of religious institutions in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across cultures. In the 19th century, cultural anthropology was dominated by an interest in cultural evolution; most anthropologists assumed that there was a simple distinction between “primitive” and “modern” religion and tried to provide accounts of how the former evolved into the latter. In the 20th century most anthropologists rejected this approach. Today ...

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The exact year of Tecumseh's birth is unknown; 1768 is the generally accepted estimate. He was born in the Ohio Country, probably in one of the Shawnee towns along the Scioto River. Nineteenth century traditions (and current Ohio historical markers) placed his birthplace further west, along the Little Miami River, although the Shawnee towns there were not settled until after Tecumseh's birth. Tecumseh's name (which has been translated variously "I Cross the Way" or "A Panther Crouching for His Prey") was a reference to his family clan (or ph ...

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Tecumseh, Tecumseh - Early years, Tecumseh - Tecumseh's War, Tecumseh - War of 1812, Tecumseh - Miscellaneous, Tecumseh - Tributes, Tecumseh - Namings, Tecumseh - Tecumseh in fiction, Tecumseh - Quotations, Tecumseh - Notes

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The Greg Egan novel Permutation City relies heavily on the theory of quantum immortality. In it, a main character miraculously survives several would-be deaths, and eventually organizes and participates in a mass-suicide with dozens of eccentric millionaires in the belief they would find themselves in a self-contained universe of their own design. Egan's first novel, Quarantine, also explores topics related to quantum immortality. Other science fiction stories exploring these and related ideas include "All the Myriad Ways" by Larr ...

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Quantum immortality, Quantum immortality - Overview, Quantum immortality - Fictional depictions

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Some non-believers in an afterlife, influenced by positivism (philosophy), have argued that claims of an afterlife are unverifiable and unfalsifiable, and therefore cognitively meaningless. Some have argued that, on the contrary, particular claims concerning the nature of the afterlife are verifiable and falsifiable: all one has to do to verify/falsify them is die. On the other hand, they argue, the belief in the absence of an afterlife can be attacked as vacuous on the grounds that the statement "I cease to exist" is unverifiable, unfalsifi ...

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Afterlife, Afterlife - Afterlife as a belief, Afterlife - Afterlife as an individual existence, Afterlife - Afterlife as reward or punishment, Afterlife - Afterlife as reincarnation, Afterlife - Related studies, Afterlife - Criticism, Afterlife - Philosophical arguments

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The study of views of the afterlife is a concern of Eschatology, which deals with the soul, the resurrection of the dead, the messianic era, and the end of the world. The question of whether or not there is life after death is closely related to the mind-body problem, and like that problem is one of the classic problems of so-called rational psychology and hence of one (now largely outdated) notion of the scope of metaphysics. The later works of Emanuel Swedenborg present one of the most comprehensive and systematic descriptions of th ...

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One notion of afterlife which is common to Judaism (see the afterlife and olam haba ["world to come"] ), most sects of Christianity, and Islam is that human souls go on for eternity to a place of happiness or torment, such as heaven, hell, or purgatory or limbo. Many religions hold that after death people get reward or punishment based on their deeds or faith. The Christian Bible, for example, contains the words of Jesus: "The measure you give will be the measure you get." (Mark 4:24). For many, belief in an afterlife is ...

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While the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the foundational beliefs of Christianity, accounts of other resurrections also figure in religion, myth, and fable. "[C]enturies before the time of Christ the nations annually celebrated the death and resurrection of Osiris, Tammuz, Attis, Mithra, and other gods" [1]. Resurrection - Pagan. Examples of a resurrected deity are Syrian and Greek worship of Adonis; Egyptian worship of Osiris; the Babylonian story of Tammuz; and rural religious belief in the Corn King. Resurr ...

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Upon death, brain activity ceases and a person's body begins to decompose. This marks the end of the individual's mind in the physical world. The fundamental belief of an afterlife is that there exists a non-physical means (a soul or spirit) for the mind to survive the brain's destruction and continue to function in a non-physical world. Occam's Razor is a strong counter to this belief. There are two basic alternatives to be compared: When you die, your mind ceases to function and your body decomposes. When you die, your mind continues to function despite the physical destruction of your brain, continuing its ex ...

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Afterlife, Afterlife - Afterlife as a belief, Afterlife - Afterlife as an individual existence, Afterlife - Afterlife as reward or punishment, Afterlife - Afterlife as reincarnation, Afterlife - Related studies, Afterlife - Criticism, Afterlife - Philosophical arguments

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Christian knowledge of the belief in bodily disappearance of Divine Heroes, or Saviors, in other religions around the world (see below) is relatively new and sometimes unwelcome. For these similarities, contemporary evangelical Christians have coined the phrase "Satanic Counterfeits". In addition, some Christians argue that since resurrection stories in these "mystery religions" are almost always centered on agricultural cycles (i.e. seeding and harvest) and involve their god dying and being resurrected every year any resemblance to the resu ...

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Resurrection, Resurrection - Introduction, Resurrection - Religious examples, Resurrection - Pagan, Resurrection - Accounts of Resurrections in India, Resurrection - Christianity, Resurrection - Bodily disappearances, Resurrection - Recommended reading, Resurrection - Citations

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List of department stores - Defunct U.S. chains liquidated or not acquired by extant chains. Alexander's (New York metropolitan area). Declared bankruptcy in 1992. Ames Department Stores. B. Altman and Company (New York City). L.L. Berger (Buffalo). Catered to upper middle class customers. Its last store, in downtown Buffalo, closed in 1991. Best & Company (New York). A department store exclusively for children of the well-to-do. Once one of the cluster of grand New Y ...

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List of department stores, List of department stores - Australia, List of department stores - Belgium, List of department stores - Brazil, List of department stores - Canada, List of department stores - Current, List of department stores - Historical, List of department stores - Denmark, List of department stores - Finland, List of department stores - France, List of department stores - Germany, List of department stores - Hong Kong, List of department stores - Indonesia, List of department stores - Ireland, List of department stores - India, List of department stores - India, List of department stores - Current, List of department stores - Malaysia, List of department stores - Defunct, List of department stores - Netherlands, List of department stores - New Zealand, List of department stores - Philippines, List of department stores - Poland, List of department stores - Puerto Rico, List of department stores - Saudi Arabia, List of department stores - Singapore, List of department stores - South Korea, List of department stores - Spain, List of department stores - Sweden, List of department stores - Switzerland, List of department stores - Thailand, List of department stores - United Kingdom, List of department stores - United States of America, List of department stores - Defunct U.S. chains liquidated or not acquired by extant chains

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Yakima (IPA: [jæ kɪ mɑ]) is a city in central Washington and the county seat of Yakima County, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,845 and a metropolitan of 229,094. Yakima is situated in the Yakima Valley, which is noted for being one of the best apple-producing areas in the world, as well as a prime location for the production of hops. The name originates from the Yakama Native American tribe. The Yakama Indian Reservation is located to the south ...

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• Yakima Washington - History
• Yakima Washington - Geography
• Yakima Washington - The Yakima region
• Yakima Washington - Bodies of water
• Yakima Washington - Demographics
• Yakima Washington - Sports
• Yakima Washington - Transportation
• Yakima Washington - Roads and highways
• Yakima Washington - Airport
• Yakima Washington - Economy
• Yakima Washington - Interesting facts
• Yakima Washington - Famous Yakima natives
• Yakima Washington - Common Yakima nicknames
• Yakima Washington - Points of interest

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