Robin Thicke Talks Love for Wife Paula Patton: "I Don't Know If I Would Still Be Alive" Without Her

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Robin Thicke and wife Paula Patton are opening up about their love life.

In the new issue of Prestige magazine, the "Blurred Lines" singer and 37-year-old actress, who've been making lots of headlines recently, are gushing about being there for each other, especially during tough moments in their professional lives.

"I don't know if I would still be alive in some ways if it wasn't for Paula," Thicke tells the mag. "She's been my rock, my muse, my inspiration and I love her. The whole way."

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"I've been there for his down moments and he's been there for mine," Patton added. "Life is full of peaks and valleys. Robin has always been a great person to remind me to celebrate now. Even when it looks like I've got a role but don't know for sure, he's like, 'Let's celebrate!'"

Thick says welcoming their 3-year-old son, Julian, changed his life "in every single way."

"My son is my good-luck charm; he's made me not think about myself all day long," he dished. "All of a sudden he shows up with his beautiful smile and perfect energy and makes me go, 'Ah, forget my little problems.' He's an amazing child."

As for how the gorgeous couples spends time alone together? Patton said, "Talking to each other. We watch movies. Just sit and contemplate—we have a house with a bit of a view. Listening to music. Talking about what's going on in our lives. We're best friends."

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Miley Cyrus: Why Chris Hemsworth Still Hasn't Watched Her MTV VMA Performance

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Video: 9/3: President's Syria plan gets Boehner's support, but still faces doubts; Photos honor builders of new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge

9/3: President's Syria plan gets Boehner's support, but still faces doubts; Photos honor builders of new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge 21:10 September 3, 2013

9/3: President's Syria plan gets Boehner's support, but still faces doubts; Photos honor builders of new SF-Oakland Bay BridgeDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State John Kerry appeared at a hearing on Capitol Hill to convince Congress to take military action in Syria; and, all too often, history forgets the men and women who build America's great structures. John Blackstone reports on one man determined not to let that happen to the workers who constructed the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

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Video: 9/3: President's Syria plan gets Boehner's support, but still faces doubts; Photos honor builders of new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge

9/3: President's Syria plan gets Boehner's support, but still faces doubts; Photos honor builders of new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge 21:10 September 3, 2013

9/3: President's Syria plan gets Boehner's support, but still faces doubts; Photos honor builders of new SF-Oakland Bay BridgeDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State John Kerry appeared at a hearing on Capitol Hill to convince Congress to take military action in Syria; and, all too often, history forgets the men and women who build America's great structures. John Blackstone reports on one man determined not to let that happen to the workers who constructed the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

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Still work to do on Martin Luther King's dream, civil rights leaders say

(CBS News) WASHINGTON - Dr. Martin Luther King put the finishing touches on his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Willard Hotel in Washington. And that is where we sat down with three leaders of the civil rights movement: Marian Wright-Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund; Andrew Young, the former mayor of Atlanta; and former Georgia state legislator Julian Bond.

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All of them were part of the March on Washington a half century ago.

ANDREW YOUNG: When the trains started unloading from the South and a trainload from Philadelphia, and then the movie stars flew, I realized that this was something big.

SCOTT PELLEY: On that day, what did you think would be achieved by the March on Washington? What could be accomplished?

JULIAN BOND: Dr. King's speech and in the speeches of the other people, we had explained: Here are the problems we are facing, these are the reasons why we're here, we're marching, we're protesting, we're sitting in. We've had several years of disruption around the country, and we've shown you about it. Now do something about it.

Julian Bond

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ANDREW YOUNG: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King set out to redeem the soul of America from the triple evils of racism, war and poverty. Now, I think we've made enormous progress on legal racism. We've made progress on war. But we have retrogressed on poverty.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: I am so worried about this country moving backwards. A child is dropping out of school every eight seconds. If 60 percent of all of your children cannot read and compute at grade level, you are not going to be a strong, competitive nation. And we need to just see the growing gap between the poor and the rich, and the wealth and income inequality at an unprecedented stage with poor children are everywhere.

Marian Wright Edelman

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SCOTT PELLEY: For decades, CBS News has been polling Americans about their views on race, and we have a brand new poll on that subject. We asked whether there is real hope of ending racial discrimination. In this new poll, it's 52 percent, the very first time there's ever been a majority saying that racial discrimination in our country could end. Why is that happening?

ANDREW YOUNG: Because it's happening. I mean, the truth of it is- University of Georgia elected a black student government president, as did University of Alabama --

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: And Mississippi.

A young Julian Bond and a young Marian Wright sing "We Shall Overcome."

ANDREW YOUNG: -- a few years back. And Mississippi State. To me, the hope of dealing with racism is in the South because we've been struggling with it for several hundred years. And we really are making progress.

SCOTT PELLEY: We have a photograph of a young Julian Bond and a young Marian Wright in the crowd. What's happening in that moment?

Watch: MLK says March on Washington was "One of the great days of America."

JULIAN BOND: We are singing ... "We Shall Overcome," by that time, '63, had become the anthem of the civil rights movement. People are leaving, going home, and we're standing there hand in hand singing "We Shall Overcome."

SCOTT PELLEY: And if -- if you said to a young person, "If you don't take anything else away from the March on Washington, understand this?"

ANDREW YOUNG: Understand that the struggle continues. And the future is in your hands, in your heart, in your mind.

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More dead dolphins wash ashore, cause still unclear

LONG BEACH TOWNSHIP — Two pods of dolphins swam by a group of lifeguards during a morning competition off the beach here Wednesday.

It was the serene summer scene any lifeguard appreciates, but New Jersey guards have had many grimmer encounters with dolphins in recent weeks.

Since a dead dolphin was found in the Elberon section of Long Branch on July 9, 21 dead dolphins have washed onto beaches from Monmouth County to Cape May County, said Bob Schoelkopf, founding director of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, which has responded to each.

What?s causing the deaths isn?t yet clear. The number of dolphins brought in for testing ? an average of two per day ? has delayed the center from getting closer to an answer, Schoelkopf said.

?This is unusual,? he said. ?It?s a high number.?

Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?s National Marine Fisheries Service said last week that a typical year could see more than 1,000 strandings of dolphins and other marine animals such as seals and whales from Maine to Virginia.

This time of year often leads to dolphin strandings because they are migrating and between more boats in the water and a higher population, human interaction or just a sudden sickness could bring a dolphin to shore, said Maggie Mooney-Seus, NOAA?s Northeast Fisheries Science Center?s communications specialist.

Fisheries have started collecting information, which includes asking its other regional stranding network members to report any strandings they have so NOAA can track any trends, Mooney-Seus said.

Schoelkopf said all but one of the beached animals have been bottlenose dolphins. A common dolphin was brought in Tuesday after washing onto the beach in Harvey Cedars. They range from 125 to 500 pounds, he said.

The stranding center picks up the animals, briefly studies them at their headquarters in Brigantine, and then takes them to the New Bolton Center in Chester County, Pa. There, they undergo a necropsy ? an autopsy for animals.

?We keep taking them (animals) every day. The lab is pushing as hard as they can,? he said.

While the locations of the dead dolphins has varied, Schoelkopf said his staff has found nine of the dolphins along the 18-mile stretch of Long Beach Island. Long Beach Township has had to report three dead dolphins, Beach Patrol Supervisor Don Myers said.

The three dolphins that washed on his beaches July 19, 24 and 30 came later in the day when few people were on the beach, Myers said. His staff follows protocol by keeping people away and notifying the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, he said.

His staff examined one of the dolphins, which had various cuts, scrapes and punctures. But he said he isn?t certain what has been impacting the dolphins.

?I tell my staff they?re mammals like we are. They have respiratory infections or die of natural causes like anything,? Myers said.

The dolphins haven?t forced beach closures and the health department cleared the beach of health issues, Myers said. His beach hasn?t had problems with sharks, either, he said.

Schoelkopf said some of the dolphins that they found had been badly decomposed because of sharks eating the carcasses.

He is urging anyone who sees a dolphin to keep themselves, their pets and children away from it and to report it immediately to the center or local authorities, such as police or lifeguards.

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Snowden still stuck in airport

25 July 2013 Last updated at 01:54 GMT The BBC's Daniel Sandford reports on the lawyer with a bag who intrigued journalists at Moscow Airport on Wednesday

Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has not been given Russian travel documents, his lawyer has said, contradicting earlier reports.

Anatoly Kucherena told reporters his client would remain in the transit zone at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been for the past month.

Earlier, airport officials said that Mr Kucherena had given Mr Snowden the travel documents.

The US wants him extradited for leaking details of surveillance programmes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to hand him to the American authorities, but said he could stay in Russia only if he stopped leaking US secrets.

'Studying Russian culture'

Mr Snowden, whose passport has been cancelled by the US, has stayed in the airport's transit area since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June.

He has requested temporary asylum in Russia, and said recently his favoured final destination was Latin America.

Mr Kucherena visited his client at the airport on Wednesday and told a news conference later that the 30-year-old would not yet be leaving the airport.

He said the application for temporary asylum had not been processed, and no travel documents had been received.

"He is not planning to leave for now. He asked for temporary asylum, which in the case of a positive decision is granted for a term of one year," said Mr Kucherena.

The lawyer said Mr Snowden wanted to study Russian culture, adding that he had given the American books including Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.

Mr Kucherena said Mr Snowden was "anxious" about leaving the airport.

"I hope that this situation will be resolved in the nearest future," he said. "This is the first time Russia is facing such a situation, and this issue of course requires time for the immigration workers."

The lawyer's account contradicted that of airport officials, who earlier told local media that the lawyer had handed Mr Snowden the documents he needed to leave the airport.

Asylum offers

It was unclear whether there had been last-minute political intervention or some other problem.

The Interfax news agency quoted unnamed officials saying the American would be provided with new clothes before leaving the airport.

After the lawyer's news conference, the White House said it wanted clarity from Russia on his status.

Spokesman Jay Carney said Washington had already made it clear to Moscow that Mr Snowden should be handed over to face espionage charges.

The Snowden affair has caused diplomatic ructions around the world, upsetting America's close allies and traditional enemies.

Leaks by the former CIA worker have led to revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting Americans' phone records.

On Wednesday evening, an attempt to block funding for the programme narrowly failed in a 205-217 vote in the US House of Representatives.

The White House had lobbied Congress to support the surveillance.

Opponents of the US, including Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua, have all offered Mr Snowden asylum.

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Trees still affected by 1976 drought

23 July 2013 Last updated at 23:59 GMT By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Many beech trees still have not recovered fully from the impacts of the drought of 1976 The sizzling summer of 1976 caused permanent changes to British forests, new research suggests.

Scientists found that the long dry spell that year - the UK's most intense drought between 1914 and 2006 - killed off many drought-sensitive beech trees.

Growth of the trees is still restricted more than 30 years later, a study in the journal Functional Ecology said.

The more drought-tolerant Sessile Oak survived better and is now dominating the beech.

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They are resistant up to a point and then we hit a tipping point and the system shows very severe impacts”

End Quote Prof Alistair Jump University of Stirling The scientific work was carried out at Lady Wood Park in the Wye Valley. This 45 hectare (111 acre) site is a national nature reserve and is attractive to researchers because it has been deliberately unmanaged since 1945.

Detailed forest surveys have been carried out in the park over the past 70 years and the ecologists were able to use these along with tree ring data to discover how the different tree species fared over the period.

Beech surrender

Before 1976, beech was the dominant species in this area. But that summer's drought has permanently changed the makeup of the forest.

That dry spell was the most exceptional drought in the years between 1914 and 2006 - it was 30% more intense than the next driest year, 1921.

The researchers found that in the period immediately after 1976, there was a significant growth in beech mortality. Between 1977 and 1992, 17% of these trees died, while there were no deaths among the oaks.

"The beech growth dropped very suddenly," said Prof Alistair Jump from the University of Sterling who carried out the work along with researchers from Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

The Sessile Oak has coped well with the extreme drought event

"The Sessile Oak which is slightly less competitive but is more drought tolerant took advantage and grew much better - and beech has never fully recovered in the system."

The researchers say the oaks increased their growth rate by approximately 20% in the years immediately after 1976. The beech trees eventually stabilised their growth rate but only at around 75% of pre-drought levels.

The scientists say that beech trees can appear to tolerate drought without a long term impact until a threshold is reached.

"I think tipping point is a key idea, and that's something that we see very clearly in the work," said Prof Jump.

"They are resistant up to a point and then we hit a tipping point and the system shows very severe impacts. The problem is we don't know where these tipping points are for other species."

Not this year

The researchers say they expect the changes that they recorded at Lady Park Wood to have been replicated across the UK.

This perspective is echoed by Ray Townsend, arboretum manager at the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew.

He lived through the drought of 1976 and owns a home in the New Forest and he has been spending a good deal of time among the beech trees there in recent months.

"Quite clearly you can see that the beech aren't happy," he told BBC News.

"You can see evidence of the restriction of growth - I've seen that, the beech don't look as they should look - The oaks seem to be growing well, I'd never really thought about the reasons, but reading the research paper, it makes sense in a way."

The study's authors believe that extreme events such as the drought of 1976 are likely to increase in frequency in the future and there could be similar implications for other tree species.

To cope with these events, they say that forest managers need to manipulate the mix of species in their woods.

But despite the extreme heat of the last few weeks, the scientists say that 2013 will not have the same impact on trees as the dry days of '76. That year was exceptional as it followed on from a rain-free 1975.

"This summer it won't happen," said Prof Jump.

"Last year we were at the point where we were forecast to exceed the 1976 drought and then we had this phenomenal amount of rain - that replenished the water supplies and that means for this year it would be highly unlikely."

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Trees still affected by 1976 drought

23 July 2013 Last updated at 23:59 GMT By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, BBC News Many beech trees still have not recovered fully from the impacts of the drought of 1976 The sizzling summer of 1976 caused permanent changes to British forests, new research suggests.

Scientists found that the long dry spell that year - the UK's most intense drought between 1914 and 2006 - killed off many drought-sensitive beech trees.

Growth of the trees is still restricted more than 30 years later, a study in the journal Functional Ecology said.

The more drought-tolerant Sessile Oak survived better and is now dominating the beech.

Continue reading the main story

They are resistant up to a point and then we hit a tipping point and the system shows very severe impacts”

End Quote Prof Alistair Jump University of Stirling The scientific work was carried out at Lady Wood Park in the Wye Valley. This 45 hectare (111 acre) site is a national nature reserve and is attractive to researchers because it has been deliberately unmanaged since 1945.

Detailed forest surveys have been carried out in the park over the past 70 years and the ecologists were able to use these along with tree ring data to discover how the different tree species fared over the period.

Beech surrender

Before 1976, beech was the dominant species in this area. But that summer's drought has permanently changed the makeup of the forest.

That dry spell was the most exceptional drought in the years between 1914 and 2006 - it was 30% more intense than the next driest year, 1921.

The researchers found that in the period immediately after 1976, there was a significant growth in beech mortality. Between 1977 and 1992, 17% of these trees died, while there were no deaths among the oaks.

"The beech growth dropped very suddenly," said Prof Alistair Jump from the University of Sterling who carried out the work along with researchers from Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

The Sessile Oak has coped well with the extreme drought event

"The Sessile Oak which is slightly less competitive but is more drought tolerant took advantage and grew much better - and beech has never fully recovered in the system."

The researchers say the oaks increased their growth rate by approximately 20% in the years immediately after 1976. The beech trees eventually stabilised their growth rate but only at around 75% of pre-drought levels.

The scientists say that beech trees can appear to tolerate drought without a long term impact until a threshold is reached.

"I think tipping point is a key idea, and that's something that we see very clearly in the work," said Prof Jump.

"They are resistant up to a point and then we hit a tipping point and the system shows very severe impacts. The problem is we don't know where these tipping points are for other species."

Not this year

The researchers say they expect the changes that they recorded at Lady Park Wood to have been replicated across the UK.

This perspective is echoed by Ray Townsend, arboretum manager at the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew.

He lived through the drought of 1976 and owns a home in the New Forest and he has been spending a good deal of time among the beech trees there in recent months.

"Quite clearly you can see that the beech aren't happy," he told BBC News.

"You can see evidence of the restriction of growth - I've seen that, the beech don't look as they should look - The oaks seem to be growing well, I'd never really thought about the reasons, but reading the research paper, it makes sense in a way."

The study's authors believe that extreme events such as the drought of 1976 are likely to increase in frequency in the future and there could be similar implications for other tree species.

To cope with these events, they say that forest managers need to manipulate the mix of species in their woods.

But despite the extreme heat of the last few weeks, the scientists say that 2013 will not have the same impact on trees as the dry days of '76. That year was exceptional as it followed on from a rain-free 1975.

"This summer it won't happen," said Prof Jump.

"Last year we were at the point where we were forecast to exceed the 1976 drought and then we had this phenomenal amount of rain - that replenished the water supplies and that means for this year it would be highly unlikely."

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