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With his weight in check, Pacquiao said he has strengthened his focus on grabbing the World Boxing Council super featherweight crown from Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez on March 15 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino.

“Ready to go,” said Pacquiao on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila), after eating supper at his suite at the Mandalay Bay here.

“Laban na ito (It’s fight time).”

After checking in at 133 pounds on Saturday, just three pounds over the limit, Pacquiao found no need to starve himself.

“Ang sarap kasi ng ulam (The food is delicious),” said Pacquiao, who feasted on fried pampano and chicken tinola with a scoop of rice and lots of fruits.

Cautioned by trainer Freddie Roach to watch his diet, Pacquiao said he’ll begin to cut down on his food intake on Wednesday.

“Nag-eensayo pa naman ako (Any way I’m still training),” said Pacquiao, who jogged at the University of Nevada at La Vegas campus in the morning and then trained with Roach in the afternoon at the Iba gym.

He did six rounds with the mitts, shadow boxed and completed routine calisthenics.

Source: Inquirer 

NEW YORK (CNN) — New York governor Eliot Spitzer announced his resignation Wednesday amid allegations that he used an exclusive prostitution ring at least eight times in eight months, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

Spitzer, who will step down on Monday, said he wanted to "atone for his private failings" in a brief statement to reporters in New York.

Sources told CNN the probe began when a bank informed the U.S. Treasury Department about suspicious transfers of money from Spitzer’s accounts.

That investigation led agents to the alleged organizers of the prostitution ring, four of whom were charged in a criminal complaint last week, the sources said.

Wiretaps on suspected members of the ring, authorized in January, yielded more than 5,000 telephone calls and text messages and another 6,000-plus e-mails, according to court papers.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Three years after gigantic geysers were spied on an icy Saturn moon, the international Cassini spacecraft is poised to plunge through the fringes of the mysterious plumes to learn how they formed.

Wednesday’s flyby will take Cassini within 30 miles of the surface of Enceladus at closest approach.

The unmanned probe will be about 120 miles above the moon as it sweeps through the edge of the geysers and measures their chemical makeup.

The carefully orchestrated event will take Cassini "deeper than we’ve been before," mission scientist Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute said in an e-mail.Scientists long believed Enceladus, the shiniest object in the solar system, was cold and still because it resides hundreds of millions of miles from the sun. But recent evidence shows the Arizona-size satellite is geologically active, with a significant atmosphere and a relatively warm south pole.

In 2005, Cassini surprised scientists when it snapped images of geyser-like eruptions of ice particles and water vapor spewing from the south pole. The dramatic images effectively put Enceladus (en-SELL’-uh-duhs) on the short list of places within the solar system most likely to have conditions suitable for extraterrestrial life.

Scientists generally agree the presence of water, organic compounds and a stable heat source are needed to support primitive life.