The Problems with Problems (old)

Yeah, I probably should've posted this when it was still relevant... Our problem ended up being a people-problem with people's troubles assimilating into high school at the start of freshman year, which I don't personally think is one, but the supermajority of survey answers from our class overran my veto attempt. Anyways, the post:

A Fellow Lily

"This is not intended to be
free verse.
Writing each phrase on a separate line
facilitates rapid reading,
and everyone
is in a hurry
nowadays."
-Lillian Rosanoff Lieber 

Circles, Great and Small

  Oftentimes the paths that airplanes take to travel long distances don't look straight when drawn on a map. But the fastest path from point A to point B is a straight line, right? The only problem is, that a straight line from, for instance, Chicago to Beijing, would have to go through the center of the earth.