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\ Fro / (��"'-- \ ethiopia �iWan plans may never be too set Inl stone. But, on the list of ound of it, the Divas travel • �.- potential itineraries are the fol�wing women in their re*p.�Jve 10c�r1� ��. Ethiopia Derartu lulu, a shepherdess from a small village in Ethiopia, won her first gold medal at the age of 20, only four years after she began running. Still in her early twenties, Derartu has gone on to win the World Cross Country Championships (1997) and ran her first marathon last year (1997; 5th of all women). In addition to her athletic feats, Derartu manages the Hotel Barcelona in the capitol, Addis Ababa, serves as a major in the Ethiopian Army and is an activist for orphans rights. Antarctica Several years ago, when Laura Evans was diagnosed with a vicious, usually fatal, form of breast cancer. She challenged that sentence by opting for a risky, experimental bone marrow transplant. Shortly after her recovery, Evans led an expedition of breast cancer survivors up Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America. Evans will introduce seven more women to a new kind of life reaffirming therapy: another climb for breast cancer survivors, this time Mount Vincent, the highest peak on Antarctica. Vandana Shiva is a scholar and activist who transcends the boundaries of science and law with extraordinarily humane vision. In the early eighties she was instrumental in the Chipko Movement, in which 'hundreds of thousands of Indian women embraced trees in protest and eventually ended logging in the Himalayas. Since that time she has worked to protect indigenous Indian agricultural practices and directs a foundation that helps the Indian people counteract the negative effects of global development. Iran/Great Britain Christiane Amanpour, born in London and raised in Iran, has made travel to the heart of international conflict her career. Known as the best at what she does "delivering authoritative and 40 impassioned international news reports." Amanpour has covered the Gulf War, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and the Bosnia-Serbia conflict. She continues to cover breaking stories through her reporting for both CBS and CNN. Mal i In Mali, one can trade a Worotan (the equivalent of 10 kola nuts) for a new bride. And it is for this reason that the young, politically brazen singer-songwriter. Oumou Singare chose Worotan as the title of her latest album. Using Western accents to highlight traditional Wassoulou rhythms, Oumou's unique musical style quickly captivated West African audiences . Now, her Aretha Franklinesque voice is transcending cultural boundaries and reaching audiences worldwide. New Zealand Keri Hulme is of Nga lahu, Orkney Scots and Lancashire ancestry. Her novel The Bone People won the New Zealand Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize, and has become a cult favorite among readers. Hulme describes herself: "I am a rather reticent and timid person who gets fierce about deliberate ignorance, cruelty and intolerance, unnecessary waste, and threat to any of my family. One day I hope to develop gills. " She lives in Okarito on the West Coast of New Zealand, in a house she built herself, where she makes her living as a writer and painter, and commercial fishing for whitebait. India Phoolan Devi was born into a low caste in India and sold into � ,f Divas of