"I don't know why otherwise cool and calculating people lose their heads in the mountains, but they do, " says Richard Kahl, editor of Ski Area Management magazine.

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The head editor is Owen Thomas, a well-known figure in the Silicon Valley technology scene, having been an editor of Venturebeat, NBC Bay Area and Gawker site Valleywag.

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Terry Sullivan, an associate editor at Consumer Reports, says another area shoppers could look for savings is in older camera models.

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In 1956, Phillips was new to the San Francisco area when she called the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle to tell him she could write a better advice column than the one she had just read, her syndicate Universal Uclick said.

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"Essentially women who opt for a home birth face either a very successful, satisfying outcome, or a potentially disastrous one - there isn't the greyer area that you see with hospital births, " says Professor Philip Steer, the editor of the BJOG.

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