Imagine if UCLA offered a course in building doghouses. With only 10 weeks, you would expect the class to teach students the basics needed to produce a final product – maybe focusing on how to sketch ...

It was a tense situation between a Burmese python and a Florida alligator at a golf course southeast of Naples. The two large reptiles were wrestling on the ground at Fiddler's Creek Golf Club on Jan.

Sitting around with "a lot of time on my hand," Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum decided to take on a fun little side project over Christmas break in 1989: building a new programming language ...