"Images are too clean, plots and characters dull and formulaic.
Small tests have been run at some sites on the federal Superfund list of worst toxic spills, and a growing number of larger projects have successfully cleaned plots where pollution is not as severe but still violates standards.
Differences between cleaned plots and those from control plots in terms of decreased percentage of organic matter, decreased total abundance and changed community structure were noticed from immediately after the experimental cleaning onwards and recovered to initial values after the following high water.
Originally titled "A Matter of Breeding", director Corey Allen said the episode intended to move away from the "squeaky clean" plots of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
She certainly makes it persuasively in the clean, intelligently plotted installation she has come up with here.
One of these "activist interventions" is a group called Atenistas, which has collected chewing gum from sidewalks, cleaned abandoned plots of land, and painted and decorated neglected city corners – all in the aim of "affirming their share of responsibility in improving the image of their city".
But opponents note that tests conducted by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power showed that a grandmother using a rake and broom took only twenty per cent longer to clean a test plot than a gardener with a blower.
His address book included handwritten notes that prosecutors called a plot "blueprint": "Clean batteries, perfect disguise, drink bottles," and "Check time to fill each bottle".
On the Saturday before Easter, each plot is cleaned and decorated with fresh flowers so the cemetery looks like a giant colorful patchwork quilt.
Pelecanos is a restless talent, but his books share a goal in common, which is to offer "a good story told with clean, efficient writing, a plot involving a problem to be solved or surmounted, and everyday characters the reader could relate to".
