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When designer Carmen Marc Valvo showed his fall 2005 collection during New York Fashion Week last month, there were no starlets in the front row prowling for Oscar gowns. Nor did his designs grab headlines, top must-have lists or spark debate. And yet over the 16 years Valvo has designed his namesake label, he has quietly garnered one thing his colleagues would covet: a buzz-worthy bottom line...
...Bill Valvo could sense that something was going very wrong with his health. He had worked for a software-development company in Fairfax, Va., for 10 years following a 22-year hitch with the Air Force, and the pressure was finally too much. "I left to start my own business," says Valvo, now 55, "but I could feel that all the stress was having physiological effects." Sure enough, he was diagnosed with coronary-artery disease and underwent bypass surgery in 1999. But after the operation, he spiraled into a severe depression, which would recede and then return with renewed force...
...years ago, doctors would have dismissed Valvo as a New Age crank. But these days he is solidly in the medical mainstream...
...while researchers hold conferences, do studies and write scholarly papers, Lewis has some more immediate advice for patients. "We need to get people to go in and ask these questions of their physicians. Bill Valvo could not agree more. "I think people are totally unaware of what's going on," he says, "and I'm convinced that education is a key part of what we need to be doing." The essence of that education: cure the mind, and you might just help save the body...
...didn't know who white was, I'd say black was playing better than white," said International Master and computer chess expert Michael Valvo, while discussing an early position in the match. Karpov played white, Deep Thought black...