Hi, Musers. We, your beloved editors, are here with the poll results. As you might recall, toe asked you to tell us whether you were fir or against repeating articles in Muse. Make no mistake, the race was tight But once the results were in there was no disputing that . . . drumrolL please . . . TWICE as many Muse readers were in favor of repeats. Can't get enough of a good thing, you might say? Well, there were some stipulations: (1) those in favor of repeats made us promise to NEVER EVER EVER under any circumstance in the forthcoming history of Muse repeat an article more than once. And (2) they asked us to ALWAYS announce a repeat, calling it something like a "Muse Classic. " Here are a few of the poll responses we received followed by other unrelated (but just as worthy) mad.

- The Editors

I think it would be cool to see old and well-loved articles resurface occasionally! But not (torn recent issues, mind you! And you should let everyone know it has been printed before, like with a "sticker" that says "'Muse Archive" or something cool like that, not trying to pass it off as something new and exciting. "I hat would be like cheating, you know?

Mimi rules! Bo rocks!

Rosie W., age 13. New Jersey

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I like your thinking. I've been looking for a way out of these dusty archives myself. A 10-year-old pie is both messy and SMELLY! But wait what's wrong with cheating?

- Kokopelli

Dear Muse,

Yes it is me, Sarah H. from Ohio again, and I have come back with a vengeance! Kidding! I believe that Muse should have little treasures from the past sparkle here and there, but not in every magazine. It doesn't really afreet me because I have only been receiving the beautiful Muse for barely over a year, but all the same, I feel that the treasures should escape the drawer of doom! But make sure that there are enough new articles to cover the old! Thank you, dearest Musei

Sincerely,

Sarah H., 12.999999999999 years old (I turn 13 in one week, May 10th!), Ohio

P.S. If you want your poll results posted, please post mine in the next issue! Otherwise I will come back with two pies from Kokopelli - one of my mom's tuna casserole, another of my brother's burnt cherry cobbler he made for his girlfriend! BEWARE!

Thanks for saying we sparkle. You haven't even seen my new sequin-andrhinestone-and-firecracker headband!

- Mimi

I was looking forward to an interesting afternoon's worth of reading [in the February 2008 issue] on sundry topics ranging from historical figures like William Jennings Bryan (hint) to new science and technology, like the article on complicated machine competitions. However, to my horror, I found the article "Something for Nothing" . . . again. I thought at first it was just on the same topic, which would be interesting - a new point of view. However, it wasn't. With a sinking feeling, I stared at die article - it matched word for word, right down to the box explaining the laws of thermodynamics. Considering that the reprinted article in question is my favorite in my (pretty substantial) collection, I just have to say this: How could you? How could people not notice it? This article inspired me to have a prolonged interest in science (culminating in an AP Physics class being taken this year) and a prizewinning science experiment on friction (8th grade). I ranted about the reprint for days, to the point where, two or three months later, my mother is still able to recall the incident.

It comes to this: I don't want to pay for an article I already have. I don't want to wait for a month to find out I have already read the magazine. I really love Muse, but I really want to read a new issue each month.

Thank you for your time,

Sara M., age 16

Your calculations are right on. Paying for the same thing twice doesn't make mathematical sense.

- Urania

Huh, and I thought kids bought Muse because it DOESNT always make sense. Chew on THAT!

-Bo

Moloweni Muse,

I have enclosed a picture of myself at an ancient Roman tower reading my favorite magazine. Muse, in Germany. And no, Moloweni is not German, it's "Hello" to more than one person in Xhosa, one of South Africa's 1 1 official languages. (I was in South Africa prior to Germany, but every time we went somewhere interesting we didn't have Muse.

Anyway, I noticed that many people didn't like the April 2007 article on origami. I, however, liked it, having finally learned to fold a crane. Since most people state their favorite Muse, just to let everyone know, mine is Bo. You rock Bo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, and THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for the article on global warming. And anyone who S'I'1 1 .1. doesn't believe it is nuts. And of course MUSE ROCKS!!!!!!!!!! KEEP UPTHE GOOD WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Annika R., Most Awesome Person and Protector of Owls, Books and Baklava, age approximately 487,753,972 heartbeats old.

P.S. If you throw this letter in the FMP then I shall send my army of evil snails to eat your socks! ;)

Thanks for bringing us along and *ill. But I have to say the grass in Germany wasn't my favorite - I've had better.

-Bo

You know what they say, Bo, when in a Roman tower . . .

- Mimi

Throw pizza pies!

- Kokopelli

Dear Muse,

I've read your maga- zine for a couple of years now (I first got hooked in 5th grade, and I'm in 10th now!) and I positively love it! It's awesome when you manage to put a theme to your magazine but cover a ton of different subjects at the same time! I like show- ing off your awesome arti- cles to my teachers, who hog them for months (I ? Ii in k one is still there during the summer . . . whoops!). But one of the hugest things that you guys have done for me is helping me figure out what I want to be later in life: a marine biologist. Between your articles on hagfish and box jellies, and a trip to the Toledo Zoo, it made me figure out that it's really cool!

Thank you!

Colleen, age 15

I especially love animah who aren't afraid to get their feet wet.

-Pwt

Dear Muse,

Thank you for a wonderful magazine. Muse has long crossed the boundary between a magazine for children and a magazine for adults. In the five years that I've gotten Muse, I honesdy mink I've learned more from Muse than I've learned from most classes in school.

A few years ago, you published an anide on medieval catapults and trebuchets. All the pictures in the article were taken at the Middelaldercentre (Medieval Center) in Denmark. Last summer, I went to this same center. While watching a trebuchet show, which really was awe-inspiring, I simply had to look at my Muse magazine. One of the people at the Center saw me and they gpt very offended. A couple of the people there, in full medieval garb, grabbed me and locked my feet and one arm inside a pillory, my other arm clutching at my precious magazine. And there they left me, but did I mind? Not at all, as long as I had my loyal Muse!

So, editors, place a dot on your great map, 'cause Muse has been to Denmark! Well, since I live in Denmark, and I have of course kept my subscription, you could say Muse has come to Denmark to stay.

Anyway, my real reason for writing is to explain why Kokopelli feels that he must throw pies. When he was but a little child cartoon, a cruel and malicious editor forced him to eat all of four and twenty pies, all of which had four and twenty blackbirds hidden inside. The birds scared and pecked Kokopelli so much that he forever more felt the irrepressible urge to ? Ii row any pies at the nearest animare object, thus making it impossible for him to actually eat any pies.

A Muser forever,

Michala, age 15, Copenhagen, Denmark

My secret is out.

- Kokopelli

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