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...frame a shed or Jasper Johns to re-weld a railing, but Kienholz was doing that stuff since childhood. He was brought up on a farm in the Northwest, near Fairfield, Washington. He could fix anything, combine anything, so that it worked. But as an artist he was entirely self-taught, and he could neither draw well nor paint convincingly on a flat surface...
...year later, a second bomb was left at the institute, injuring a graduate student who opened it. After that they came to an airline executive, the computer-science departments at Vanderbilt and Berkeley, a University of Michigan professor. He got better at it as he went along, a self-taught killer. The FBI shined him up with an '80s nickname--Unabom, for his favorite targets, universities and airlines. And as it became clear that all the attacks looked to be the work of one man, the Unabom task force was born...
Meet Mother Angelica, 71, improbable superstar of religious broadcasting and arguably the most influential Roman Catholic woman in America. In her day job, Mother Angelica is abbess of Our Lady of the Angels Franciscan monastery in Irondale, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. More famously, this self-taught telenun is board chairman (she deplores all-inclusive language) of Eternal Word Television Network, which reaches 36.8 million cable-equipped American homes via 1,204 affiliate systems. The largest of America's three all-religion cable networks, Mother Angelica's channel is going international. On Aug. 15, EWTN will begin 24-hour daily...
That, says Nancy, began "a five-year process to realize that there was something seriously wrong" with America. Koernke launched into a furious self-taught course on the nefariousness of the Federal Government. He began reading more newspapers. "But," says Nancy, "it was 'read between the lines.'" He searched out books by conspiracy theorists and became suddenly aware of a community of fellow searchers. "People that I baby-sat for," says Nancy. "People that he worked for and that I worked with on and off. People we went to church with. You know, it was like God's working...
VIJAY SINGH, 31, is a self-taught golfer who learned his lessons well. Of Indian ancestry, he grew up in Fiji and is a rising star on the U.S. and European professional circuits. Last week the lanky man with the homegrown swing won Arizona's Phoenix Open--and $234,000--on the first hole of a two-man playoff. Said Singh afterward: ``You can be a little more aggressive when you know you can't finish worse than second...