History buffs have fawned over the sculpture, a miniature of the familiar 32-foot-tall bronze Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va.

WSJ: Original Iwo Jima monument unsold at NYC auction

The Duo City has an eight speed internal Shimano shifter, which my neighbor fawned over, who bikes daily on New York City streets.

FORBES: First Ride: Audi x Renovo Duo Bicycle

Over-the-top weddings are regularly fawned over by the mass media, with everyone from Chelsea Clinton to Kim Kardashian celebrating their unions with multi-million dollar bashes and, by implication, upping what is expected for all of us.

FORBES: My Smaller, Cheaper, Just-For-Us Wedding

In a strangely brilliant post to her blog, Glass explains how the plight of Knut, an adorable baby polar bear that the world fawned over until he grew up, eerily parallels the plight of child stars.

FORBES: Why Knut The Bear Is Like Lindsay Lohan

In September the principals of Long-Term Capital Management, an American fund that hunts for gaps in the bond markets (and has been much fawned over by financial journalists), announced that it was returning some of its investors' money because it could not find enough profit opportunities.

ECONOMIST: Performance is all, or is it?