21.   A FedEx contract driver took packages he was supposed to deliver and gave some of the items to relatives as Christmas presents, authorities said.

22.   Even humanitarian packages are being taken from the elderly and defenseless people.

23.   From Termez, the packages will be taken by truck to Mazar-e-Sharif.

24.   In another conversation, Anderson agreed to take two packages of what he believed was heroin to Detroit.

25.   Insp. Keith McCaskill, a spokesman for the nine-member Canada-U.S. task force probing the sniper shootings, said investigators were taking the package seriously.

26.   Most of his department kept operating normally and the security forces took the package away for examination, the spokesman added.

27.   Most of his department kept operating normally as the security forces took the package away for examination.

28.   Nevertheless the package would be taken back to Washington for careful consideration.

29.   Shipley played down the disappointing development on Friday, arguing that taking the package to the WTO may broaden the number of countries acceding to the trade plan.

30.   The package was taken to the Nuclear Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Debrecen.