Claudia Laffranchi, Swiss journalist was 49
Project months behind schedule
This is it, the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. The sun rose today at 5:42 a.m., which in real life, when you dump that whole daylight savings time sleight-of-hand, was actually 4:42 a.m. Imagine.
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