But when August arrives and the reality of interminable day-and-night heat hits, it’s, “We’re really doing this.”

My family chipped in to buy a business-class seat for the return flight, a day-and-night trip from Palermo to Munich to New York to Jacksonville.

Each brings with it pollution in the form of a day-and-night barrage of trucks laden with merchandise.

Frustration with the lack of progress prompted some of India’s most accomplished wrestlers to begin a day-and-night protest in New Delhi.

But after a frantic day-and-night search lasting more than a month, on 25 May rescue teams found the the first four bodies of the miners.