In a matter of months, their dredgers and mercury kits can convert vast tracts of green forest into something resembling lunar wastelands.
Those journalists not lucky enough to be on holiday themselves desperately scratch in the dirt for anything resembling a political story.
All the smaller roles are neatly filled, particularly Scarlett Johansson's Leigh and James Darcy's Tony Perkins, the latter almost eerily resembling the original; plus Kurtwood Smith as the fuming head of the censor's office and Ralph Macchio as screenwriter Joseph Stephano.
There were brief, fleeting signs of something resembling that here but before the new manager could even warm his seat in the dugout, the visitors were behind and the setback was self-inflicted.
Other concepts include highway roadside lights resembling white flowers that automatically turn themselves on as a car approaches.
When I consider my suppurating private life: my greying hair, my body's abandonment of anything resembling skin tone, I'd have thought I was wracked with, say, inoperable despair, but it isn't so.
More interesting will be whether it is accompanied by anything resembling a renewed coalition agreement for the remaining half of the parliament.
Resembling an English architectural folly, this private mansion was converted into a hip hotel 15 years ago by a creative bunch of Belgians and has been pretty much fully booked ever since.
Europe's history should serve as constant warning against the logic of spheres of influence, or anything resembling the sacrifice of the interests of smaller nations in the name of big power realpolitik.
An independent Scotland that votes to keep the pound would be forced into an unstable currency regime resembling the dollarisation seen in countries such as Panama, new research has concluded.
Largely that's as a result of vocalist Harry Burgess, whose vocal lines veer from languid tenor croon to something resembling a wasp bobbing about on a string, though he's matched step-for-step by skittering, spindly guitar lines and a restless rhythm section.
