To take down a popular genre or a representative figure or a trendy pose, one good belly laugh works better than pages of strict criticism.

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The restaurant is in a northern Beijing suburb popular with young executives, representative of China's surging wealth and the size of its business class.

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Hitomi Wakayama, the farm's operation representative, said Guernsey milk is popular although not widely known about.

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To identify popular and relevant questions, Twitter is developing a number of ways to identify the most common and representative questions.

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Those sceptical of referendums agree that popular sovereignty, majority rule and consulting voters are the basic building blocks of democracy, but believe that representative democracy achieves these goals much better than referendums.

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