During a last few days in Rome, Sarah and I decided to hop on a train to visit, Florence, the capital of Tuscany.   On our way to the train station we stumbled across a man who claimed he worked for tourist information and so we believed him....

  As I sat on the 10-hour plane ride to Morocco, I kept thinking to myself; how am I going to communicate with people? Am I going to be okay? Will my credits be transferred back to UTEP? Many thoughts ran through my head as I embarked on my...

Editor's note: Maria Esquinca is a staff reporter at The Prospector and is currently in Indonesia for a study abroad program. The giant leaves of trees larger than my torso loomed out into the sky as we drove into the core of Indonesia’s capital,...

Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Cigarette smoking is the number...