CITY EDITION TUNNEL TO CHANGE EUROPE, BUT MAYBE NOT BRITAIN by John Darnton "FOLKESTONE, England -- Barring planetary death by meteor or the outbreak of war between England and France, the ceremony that will change Europe forever is set for May 6. But here in Britain the English Channel has been regarded as a blessing as much as a barrier, and there is scant enthusiasm for the artifact that breeches it." (p. A1,10) CHRONICLE by Nadine Brozan "SUSAN SONTAG will receive the third annual Montblanc de la Culture Award, to be presented Tuesday at a ceremony in the Walter Read Theater at Lincoln Center...Ms. Sontag is being honored for her humanitarian work in Sarajevo." (p. B4) PERILS OF A NICE JEWISH GIRL IN A COLONIAL BEDROOM by Suzanne Slesin "Elaine Reichek, who grew up in Brooklyn in the 50's, remembers her bedroom on the top floor of a pseudo-Dutch Colonial house, with its ersatz colonial canopy bed from Ethan Allen's 1776 Collection, its braided rugs and its faux-Early American fire screen...'being Jewish was not discussed....there was no Judaica in the house, nothing that remotely suggested Jewish culture.' ...Ms. Reichek, 50, has transformed the bittersweet memory of growing up in an assimilated home into a provocative art installation entitled 'A Postcolonial Kinderhood,' that will be on display until August 28 at the Jewish Museum..." (p. C1,6) IN MOSCOW, HIGH-TECH ACCCESS TO HARD CURRENCY The first automated currency exchange in Russia was installed yesterday at the GUM department store in Moscow, offering dollars, rubles, francs, marks and pounds at the official daily rate. A woman chose dollars (photo). (p. D5) SCIENTIST IS NAMED TO HEAD AIDS RESEARCH OFFICE by Natalie Angier "WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 -- ...a highly regarded immunologist has been chosen to head the Government's newly restructured and politically thorny Office of AIDS Research...Dr. William E. Paul...who is known for his studies of how cells of the immune system communicate with one another, will take over the office from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci." (p. D22) That's it. Robbin Murphy [log in to unmask]