When he was young, Oscar  Figueroa hated gold. Mining gold was a tough job. It involved being in the sun for hours, wet and covered in mud, using plates to filter the millimetric gold particles from the...

Before I studied abroad I never realized how much I like - and take for granted - the outdoors. I would never describe myself as an "outdoorsman," but parks, yards, hikes and just general "being outside"...