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Lisa Ling is a special correspondent for the National Geographic Channel and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Ling was the first woman host of National Geographic's Emmy award-winning flagship series Explorer, where she investigated the increasingly deadly drug war in Colombia, examined the complex issues surrounding China's one-child policy and explored the phenomenon of female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Israel's occupied territories.