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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/08/03/science/04angier.ready.html"><TR><TD width="501" valign="middle" align="left" colspan="3"><TABLE width="501" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD><A href="http://www.nytimes.com"></A></TD><TD><DIV align="right"><FONT class="bodytext"><STRONG>August 3, 2009</STRONG></FONT>    </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="20"><IMG width="20" height="1" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/spacer.gif" /></TD><TD width="461" valign="top" align="center"><IMG width="461" height="500" alt="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/03/science/04angier-500.jpg" /></TD><TD width="20"></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; 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font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04angier.html?_r=1&em#"> “the spleen lacks the gravitas of neighboring organs” like the liver or the stomach “because we can survive without it.” </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04angier.html?_r=1&em#"> “I would be very careful about saying, ‘You don’t need this organ, get rid of it.’ ”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04angier.html?_r=1&em#">More recently, researchers determined that the spleen is like an elaborate wetlands, a Mississippi bayou for filtering and freshening the blood. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/science/04angier.html?_r=1&em#">Hail to the chief, hail to the queen and hail to the monocytes residing in my spleen.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/00B52646-3F4D-45B4-9D8F-FB7B345F001B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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