国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -1

Not too far away is a little girl who has never known a mother, and she's never known a father, and she's never known a big sister. And today she's gonna get out of that. Hi, welcome to Ultimate Explorer, I'm Lisa Ling. Tonight, a story I've been wan

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -2

And China's population is coming under control, but there are consequences no one intended. Couples often feel they must have a boy. That's because boys traditionally carry on the family name, provide labor and stay with parents in their old age, a k

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -3

My real biological mother left me in a basket with me and my sister saying that we were twins and she waited to make sure that we were safe and then my mom right now Betsy, she came to get me in China to adopt me and she took me back to America as, a

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -5

Chinese officials now say that the gender imbalance poses a major threat to China and could trigger crimes like prostitution, forced marriages and abductions of women. These crimes have already begun. Zhu Wenguang is a private detective who earns his

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -6

(and I'll be) an orphan. But my mom and dad adopted me and I'm pretty happy. Today was one of the most emotional workdays I've ever had. The anxiety and the anxiousness was just something that I have never witnessed before. This is the moment, you kn

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -7

(Oh, really?) You just see this inexplicable joy on everyone's face. The feeling makes me get chills just thinking about it right now. It was awesome. I want one. While most of the families are getting to know their new children, I go with Denny Hawl

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -8

(she is very proud) of Chinese heritage. I feel some disgraced, because all of us, so many Chinese people, and give little help, help to the little, little girl but you can give. We're, we're the lucky ones to have her. In all my years of covering Ch

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -9

After meeting the foster moms, we all walk to the actual orphanage where Marissa was brought as a baby. We're told there are about 500 children living at this orphanage. There are tens of thousands of children just like them across China. All around

国家地理:China's Lost Girls 被抛弃的女孩 -10

Boys and girls are equal, but it could take generations to change centuries of tradition. The abandonment of baby girls isn't the only consequence of the one child policy. When a child doesn't have any brothers and sisters, something else may happen.

国家地理:Is It Real? Wild Children 野孩子

Imagine a baby alone in the woods, how would he eat? Where would he sleep? As humans, we come into this world completely helpless. Mostly, we just know how to breathe and cry. Animals, on the other hand, stagger to their feet within minutes of birth,

2007-11-24, China's View of Wal-Mart: Big Partner 2

Several hundred employees worked at the peculier center keeping the import pipelines full. Walmart gives the chinese suppliers the specifications for Walmart products.And they teach those suppliers how to meet those specifications.They have to do wi

2007-11-27, First Gunshot Victim - 史上第一个倒在枪口下的人

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the nearly 500-year-old skeleton of a man who died in a surprisingly modern way, from a gunshot wound to the head. A team of experts believes the man is the first documented victim of a shooting in the new world

2007-11-29, Flying Devils - 空中的“魔鬼”

Here they are! Striated Caracaras, doing what they do best--scavenging. This is exactly the type of scene the National Geographic crew expected to catch on camera when they went to the frigid Falkland Islands. What they didnt expect? Well, the birds

2007-12-04, Town of Deception

On the Italian coast, colored-houses build down the hillside, soaking up the sun as they face the sea. But look closely, and you'll notice that something is a little strange. In Comokolly, the art of illusion is everywhere. This fishing village near

2007-12-06, Australia's Wild Dog: Dingo

Australia's wild dog, the dingo is on the prowl. Today it hunts alone. A sign the dingo was probably on the lookout for small game. But it senses a larger opportunity, a baby kangaroo called Joey makes an excellent target. Its too big for his mother

2007-12-01, China's View of Wal-Mart: Big Partner 3

Walmart had estimates that they import 15 billion dollars of Chinese goods every year, and maybe a lot more. Evan mentioned a figure of fifteen billion dollars direct and indirect imports, others have given this higher estimates, so well under 20 or

国家地理:Octopus Loses Arm 章鱼逃命大法

Here in the Timor Sea off northern Australia, take a look at a creature that seems to have the soul of a riverboat gambler. It moves through turf dominated by large hungry predators, and it fights these predators in a way that will astound you. This

2007-12-22, Secret History of the Credit Card (3)

According to McKinley, the key to understanding how credit cards are marketed lies in the great digital revolution, the amassing of data on American consumers. Well, there is a gold mine of information residing out there in these databases by the co

2007-12-29, Sierra Madre Tourism - 墨西哥铜峡谷

The sheer beauty of northern Mexico's Sierra Madre Mountains is only one reason why many visitors come a long way to enjoy some quiet time in this part of the country known as the Copper Canyon. Its natural beauty and panorama that it offers is unbe

2007-12-27, Secret History of the Credit Card (4)

In 1996 another important Supreme Court decision open the door to bigger profits for the credit card industry and raft a new complaints from their customers. That decision Smiley.V Citibank. much like the Marquette decision before it. lifted the sta