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Washington - U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday set in motion the most dramatic changes in NASA's priorities since the dawn of the Apollo program more than 40 years ago. Speaking to an overflow crowd at NASA headquarters in Washington, the President declared a new era in the age of space exploration. "We will set a new course for America's space program; we will give NASA a new focus. We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe to gain a new foothold on moon and prepare for new journeys beyond Earth," Bush said. Erez Crossing, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian mother of two has killed four Israelis when she blew herself up at the main border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The militant Islamic group Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the suicide bombing on Wednesday, which they said was to avenge Israel's killing of Palestinians. Smiling as she cradled an assault rifle in a videotape she left, Reem Al-Reyashi, 22, professed love for her children, a 3-1/2-year-old boy and a girl of 1-1/2 years, before an attack she said was meant to turn her body into "deadly shrapnel". Los Angeles - The distributors of Mel Gibson's controversial new movie, "The Passion of the Christ," plan to release the film on 2,000 screens across the nation next month, a decision prompted by an unexpected flood of ticket requests.
