1.   Authorities on Christmas Island planned to ferry more food to the ship later Thursday.

2.   Authorities on Christmas Island began ferrying more food to the ship by helicopter Thursday afternoon.

3.   Children watched from rooftops as two young boys perched on a huge iron cooking pot steered home, ferrying food in cloth bags.

4.   If it is not feasible to use animals to ferry food to the most distant mountain regions, they would consider airdropping it, he said.

5.   While flimsy wooden rafts ferried food and tents across the Oxus River Thursday, a Hercules cargo plane parachuted blankets to earthquake survivors in snow-bound northeastern Afghanistan.

6.   Dey said efforts to ferry food to hungry Afghans will continue at full steam over the holiday period.

7.   Dey said that efforts to ferry food to hungry Afghans will continue at full steam over the holiday period.

8.   Food convoys were halted after a UN vehicle came under fire from unidentified forces while trying to ferry food to civilians Wednesday.

9.   Food distribution was also halted after a UN vehicle came under fire while trying to ferry food to increasingly hungry civilians Wednesday.