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Crowdsourcing volunteers comb satellite photos
for Malaysia Airlines jet
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• You -- the person now reading this story -- can
  help experts solve the mystery of what happened
  to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which
  disappeared over the open sea. In fact, thousands
  of aspiring good Samaritans are volunteering
  their time to scour part of the plane's search
  zone using detailed satellite images posted
  online by DigitalGlobe. This idea of the public
  (not experts) gathering information and posting
  it is called crowdsourcing. It is a busy week
  for "crowdsourcing." Networks, like DigitalGlobe,
  are asking the public to review its photos and
  mark anything that looks interesting, any signs
  of wreckage. One volunteer found a fascinating
  image in a matter of minutes the silhouette in
  the ocean has the scale of a Boeing 777-200, the
  same model of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

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• More than four days since Malaysia Airlines
  Flight 370 disappeared over Southeast Asia,
  Malaysian officials not only don't know what
  happened to the plane, they don't seem sure where
  to look. On Wednesday, officials announced they
  have once again expanded the search area. It now
  covers 27,000 square miles -- in the Straits of
  Malacca and in the South China Sea.
• In 16 years, cancer will become the leading cause
  of death in the United States, surpassing heart
  disease, according to a new report from the
  American Society of Clinical Oncology. The number
  of new cancer cases is expected to increase
  nearly 45 by 2030, from 1.6 million cases to 2.3
  million cases annually. This influx of new
  patients will place a bigger burden on a field of
  medicine already stretched by physician shortages
  and financial difficulties, says the report,
  which highlights growing problems for cancer care
  in the United States.
• In some ways, the "Pope Francis effect" doesn't
  seem very effective at all. Despite the immense
  popularity the aged Argentine has won since his
  election last year, not a jot of doctrine has
  changed, nor has the Catholic Church swelled with
  American converts. But there's more than one way
  to measure a pontiff's influence on his far-flung
  flock. "There's an energy, a feeling, a spirit
  here. It's like a healing balm."