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
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