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...fulfill their promise. Kindle only offers subscriptions to eight magazines, and most of the content is already available for free online, with better formatting. The Web browser is slow, colorless and unable to handle web sites that aren’t mostly text, which should be a letdown to anyone with an iPhone. And it’s likely that customers, used to bright, full-color screens even on basic cell phones, will find Kindle’s two-tone e-paper display a letdown, even if it does make reading easier...
Comebacks by musical legends are almost always a letdown, but there's one '60s icon that's performing, and looking, even better today than it did 40 years ago: the tube amplifier. Although almost made extinct in the 1970s by cheaper transistor-based amps, vacuum tubes (also known as valves) are back in the mix for a growing number of high-end audio companies. This isn't just sonic nostalgia: audiophiles have long claimed that tubes pump out warmer, smoother sounds - a result of the low-level distortion that tubes generate - than transistors. If your music goes down these tubes...
...mixed results. The thale-cress does indeed turn red when it meets nitrogen dioxide. But Aresa can't get the weed to grow large enough to be easily visible. Aresa has experimented with only one of the more than 1,600 varieties of thale-cress. Following the summer letdown, the company ordered 174 different strains, and is awaiting seeds from Libya, Norway, the Caucasus, Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere...
Most museum shops are a letdown, filled with cheap imitations and tacky souvenirs. Fortunately there are some that offer faithful replicas - of everything from cutting-edge architecture to millennium sold jewelry - as well as items that reflect the spirit of their collections. And it's all available online. You can't have the originals, but here's where to get the next best thing...
...other runners who trained meticulously and had spent many hundreds of dollars in airfare, hotel rooms and equipment to take part in the race, the cancellation was a major letdown...