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Inside the groundbreaking face transplant that has given a young woman a second chance at life“I want to go out and be a face in the crowd that no one looks at.”KATIE STUBBLEFIELDFACE TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT09.2018THE STORY OF A FACE N AT I O N A L G E O G R A P H I CTHE BIG IDEABacteria Strike BackAntibiotic resistance is on the rise,thanks to an evolutionary trick.BY DAVID QUAMMENDATA SHEETNew Silent SpringBirds are disappearing from French farmlands.BY DAISY CHUNG AND MICHAEL GRESHKOALSORockets for Regular FolksEach year in the Nevada desert,hobbyists gather to launch high-powered projectiles thousands of feet into the sky.PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT ORMERODP R O O FE M B A R KE X P L O R E17826DECODERLife on CheeseThe bacteria and fungi that live in cheese rinds are tinybut may lead to solutions for some big world problems.BY DANIEL STONETHROUGH THE LENSThis Look Could Have KilledIn a cave teeming with bats and snakes,a photographer thought he knew the dangers.BY JOEL SARTOREALSOAlpine HighlineRed Panda PassionOn the CoverBefore Katie Stubblefield had a face transplant,she posed for this portrait.It shows her severely injured facebut photogra-pher Maggie Steber also wanted to capture“her inner beauty and her pride and determination.”MAGGIE STEBERC O N T E N T SWhale TrackingFishnet BenefitS E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8F E A T U R E SKaties New FaceIdentity.Experience.Emotion.The human face expresses all this and much more.As a result of one impul-sive act,a teenager lost her face.Incredible medical advances and skilled surgeons made it possible for her to get a new one.BY JOANNA CONNORSPHOTOGRAPHS BYMAGGIE STEBER AND LYNN JOHNSON.P.40Building a New American DreamExpanding on their immigrant parents successes,second-generation South Asian Americans are increas-ingly visible.And some are leaving their fore-bears career paths to take on new roles:politician,astronaut,stand-up comedian.BY YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEEPHOTOGRAPHS BY ISMAIL FERDOUS.P.128Passage to Another TimeWalking among the peaks of Central Asia.BY PAUL SALOPEKPHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHIEU PALEY.P.96Helmeted Hornbills Struggle to SurviveThe heads of these rare birds have become a target for traffickers.BY RACHAEL BALEPHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM LAMAN.P.112S E P T E M B E R|C O N T E N T SCELEBRATE RESPONSIBLY 2018 COORS BREWING CO.,GOLDEN,CO BEERS E P T E M B E R|F R O M T H E E D I T O RIt is a story about breakthrough science and the doctors,nurses,and surgeons who created a medical mira-cle.It is a story about perhaps the most distinctive part of our body and the very nature of human identity.It is a story of second chances.The story starts with two tragedies.The first was Katiesan impulsive teenage moment that forever changed her life and that of her family.A sui-cide attempt with a rifle.A blast that took her nose,mouth,jaws,the front of her face,part of her forehead,and most of her eyesight.The second tragedy,about three years later,was Sandra Benningtons:She lost her 31-year-old granddaughter,Adrea,to a drug overdose.Adrea had indicated she wanted to be an organ donorbut it was Sandra who took the extraordinary step of giving her granddaughters face to Katie.Adrea“couldnt use her face any-way anymore,”Sandra said.“When we go to heaven,we have a new body It was hard,you know,but I thought,my goodness,heres this young girl who needs a face.What a wonderful thing that would be.It just seemed like it was meant to be.”National Geographic spent more than two years documenting Katies face transplant,detailing the proce-dure in a way that has never before been seen.We were given unprece-dented access by the Cleveland Clinic An Extraordinary AssignmentB Y S U S A N G O L D B E R G E D I T O R I N C H I E FCOVER STORYRobb and Alesia Stubble-field flank daughter Katie.Behind them are two of the National Geographic colleagues who worked on Katies story for more than two years:writer Joanna Connors(left)and photog-rapher Maggie Steber.ADREA SCHNEIDERS HEART went to a woman in her 60s.Her liver went to a 66-year-old man.Her right lung was given to a 51-year-old woman,the left to a woman age 62.Her kidneys and corneas were donated.Her uterus was used for medical research on infertility.Her face went to Katie Stubblefield.This is a story about that facea gift from a young woman who died,to a 21-year-old woman who would become the youngest face transplant recipient in American history.PHOTO:MAGGIE STEBERin Ohio,where the transplant was performedand,more importantby Katie and her parents,Alesia and Robb Stubblefield,and Sandra Ben-nington.They trusted us to accurately and sensitively take tens of millions of readers on a journey that made Katie the 40th person in the world known to have received a face transplant.Katie and her family allowed this intimate contact,including per-mission to interview her doctors in depth,because theyre trying to make NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC(ISSN 0027-9358)PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PARTNERS,LLC,1145 17TH ST.NW,WASHINGTON,DC 20036.$39 PER YEAR FO