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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(2)
We are members of an exclusive group: animals that recognize their own faces in a mirror. Besides us, great apes, Asian elephants, Eurasian magpies, and bottlenose dolphins are the only other animals known to recognize themselves. Dolphins as young a
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(3)
Take a moment to look in a mirror. What do you see? Most of us would answer, Myself. 花点儿时间照照镜子，你看到了什么？我们大多数人会回答我自己。 My. Self. Our faces are the outer image we attach to our inner sense of se
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(4)
Look in the mirror again. Think about what you can do with that face. You can kiss the ones you love, bite into an apple, sing, and sigh. You can smell freshly cut grass. You can gaze at your newborn and touch your cheek to his. Beyond showing (or no
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(5)
Katie was just 18 when she lost her face. That face now exists only in photographs. In a cruel reversal of the before-and-after makeovers of reality TV and Instagram, her before photos show a girl with a wide smile and flawless skin, a girl so young
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(6)
When Katie was in high school, the family made two major moves. Her sophomore year they moved from Lakeland, Florida, where she grew up, to Owensboro, Kentucky. She'd just settled in when they moved again, a year later, to Oxford, Mississippi. Her fa
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(7)
The bullet was a pernicious thief. To get a measure of what it stole from Katie, hold your hands up to your face, palms out, your thumbs touching beneath your chin and your index fingers touching between your eyebrows. Your hands are framing the part
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(8)
Gastman, who is 48, gives the impression that he's always late, claiming that he has an attention deficit disorder personality. If he weren't joking, it would make sense, considering his many roles. He specializes in head, neck, skin, and high-risk s
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(9)
Over the course of many surgeries, Gastman and a team of specialists stabilized Katie and patched her face. They removed and repaired shattered bones. To create a nasal passage and protect her brain, Gastman made a rudimentary nose and upper lip from
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(10)
Katie became their full-time job. Whenever she was in the hospital, one of them was nearly always with her, day and night. When she wasn't in the hospital, their days were filled with doctor's appointments, rehab sessions, and the search, always, for
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(11)
That day Alesia was telling me about her extremely conservative Christian upbringing. Her church didn't allow drinking, and in middle age Alesia discovered she loves wine and a good cocktail. Can you believe it? she said. I didn't have my first drink
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(12)
They saw the donor's face every day, but she remained a mystery to the Stubblefields. They knew her age, but they didn't know her name, or how she died, or how she lived. Katie thought about her and her family often. 他们每天都能看到捐赠者的
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(13)
Lifebanc, the organ procurement organization for the region, keeps information about donors and recipients confidential, even from one another. If one side writes a letter to make contact with the other, Lifebanc will deliver it. The other side can c
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(14)
Sandra sat next to Katie and held her hand. It's so good to meet you, she said. You look beautiful. Katie said, Thank you so much for the incredible gift that you gave us. Sandra leaned in, not quite understanding Katie, and Alesia repeated it for he
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国家地理 移植的脸如何改变了一名女子的生活(15)
Katie will live the rest of her life as an experiment in the longevity of transplanted faces. Medical advances come quickly, and even her doctors can't predict what her future holds. Siemionow, with $2.8 million in funding from the military, is resea
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国家地理 一次翻越世界屋脊的历史性旅行(1)
Her hair was dyed purple. She wore spandex. She was dancing alone, the young foreigner, swaying barefoot on the roof of a car parked at an utterly remote frontier in the rocky core of Asia, hard beside the Panj River that saws Tajikistan from Afghani
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