To inspire you, two prominent women, Cabinet Office minister Mo Mowlam and Nobel-prize winning anti-landmine campaigner Jody Williams have contributed their personal top-10 lists.

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Japanese officials said Tokyo's attitude changed after the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its U.S. coordinator, Jody Williams, won the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month.

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The festival's closing day will feature a talk from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams who gained the honour for her international campaign to ban landmines.

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The other laureates to sign the letter are Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, Mairead Maguire of Ireland, South African Desmond Tutu, U.S. national Jody Williams, and Iran's Shirin Ebadi.

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The Norwegian Nobel Committee's dubious decision to award its 1997 Peace Prize to Jody Williams of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines could prove the adage that many a dark cloud has a silver lining.

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It emphasizes the truly radical and surreal nature of the idea promoted by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Jody Williams, namely the proposition that future landmine production and deployment will be prevented because such activities have been "stigmatized" by an international agreement.

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In this case, though, the Nobel Committee may have made a significant, if altogether unintended, contribution to the cause of peace if its spotlight on Jody Williams and her Flower Child crusade encourages sensible legislators to join President Clinton in heeding instead the sound advice of the U.S. military on banning landmines.

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Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Williams Institute scholar Jody L. Herman reported that for 11 states that have some form of legal partnership for same-sex couples, and for which they were able to collect data, on average just over 1% of the couples split each year.

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