Word: pom-poms
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...organic farm just outside Monterey, Calif., a super-eco building material is growing in dozens of darkened shipping containers. The farm is named Far West Fungi, and its rusting containers are full of all sorts of mushrooms--shiitake, reishi and pom-pom, to name a few. But Philip Ross, an artist, an inventor and a seriously obsessed amateur mycologist, isn't interested in the fancy caps we like to eat. What he's after are the fungi's thin, white rootlike fibers. Underground, they form a vast network called a mycelium. Far West Fungi's dirt-free hothouses...
...halls in the tight-knit communities of New Hampshire. On Sunday night, too late for many of the networks to cover it, McCain returned once more to his adopted home for one more unscripted, spirited gathering. He was greeted in the streets of Peterborough by roughly 1,000 screaming, pom-pom waving and freezing supporters...
...houses scouted by the researchers had at least one visible display of affection, which the authors cataloged in the paper's most entertaining paragraph. There were six different ways fans expressed their feelings for Auburn football, they noted. They were: "1) flying an AU flag, 2) affixing an AU pom-pom on one's mailbox, 3) affixing an AU sticker on one's mailbox, 4) placing an AU sign in one's yard, 5) placing an AU windmill in one's yard" and, in words that, sadly, will likely never appear in an economics research paper again...
...manage all those engineers and their ideas, Google needs gatekeepers. The workhorse is Mayer, 30, a superfast-talking, blond, blue-eyed force of nature who in high school starred on both the debate and the pom-pom teams. Mayer joined Google in 1999 as employee No. 20 and the first female engineer and now manages innovation in the search field. Several times a week, she holds university-style office hours, during which her charges come by with questions about projects in development. Mayer greets them at her desk, which is cluttered with solar-powered bobble heads and other...
...vivid purple) and a white tank top. I feel almost peppy, confident that I look the part. I can do this! I’ve got spunk! Who cares that I’m not the least bit athletic—I’ll be joining scores of pom-pom wavers before me, folks like President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, all under the careful guidance of the Crimson cheer squad...