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Archives ]  Photograph by Dom Hart / NASA  (Left to right) In a
signing ceremony on Sept. 28, 2005, NASA wonk Scott Pace and
NASA Ames boss Scott Hubbard discussed their plans for 'bio-
info-nano convergence' (we swear we didn't make that up!) and
transferred title to the universe to Google CEO Eric Schmidt
(OK, maybe that part we did).  We Are the Champions of the World
But Earth's a small planet, so just in case, we bought NASA
Report From Silicon Valley By Dan Pulcrano  SURE, San Jose city
government, Hewlett-Packard, Calpine and Knight Ridder imploded,
but things are cruising along fine here in Silicon Valley. While
a mayoral censure/surprise city manager resignation in the
nation's 10th most populous city, CEO-ousting at the largest
company, bankruptcy of the biggest power company or fire sale of
the monopoly daily newspaper might be big deals elsewhere, they
are barely Richter blips around here because we have bigger
veggie-burgers to fry