Gossip Girl Spoilers, Miley Cyrus, Mindy McCready, Roger Clemens, Dancing with the Stars, The Miley Cyrus Photo Shoot, Miley Cyrus’ Green Bra, are ten of the stories our country is obsessing over.

These 10 terms are among the 100 hottest trends on google trends, but for me they are the top 10 unimportant stories people shouldn’t waste their time and energy on. So here is a list of the top ten most important and inspiring stories that should be getting attention but aren’t. If we spent as much time thinking about these, the world would be a better place. So let’s try!

1. Is the Pentagon preparing for Iran?
2. Twenty-seven United Nations agencies are gathering today in the Swiss capital Bern to develop a battle plan to deal with the global food crisis.
3. Saudi Arabia’s most popular blogger has been freed after serving four months in prison without charge. Fouad Al-Farhan was detained in December after posting critical comments about Saudi government policies. Farhan is known as the godfather of blogging in Saudi Arabia. He defines his online mission as the search for freedom, dignity, justice, equality, public participation and other lost Islamic values.

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The National Toxicology Program, part of the National Institutes of Health, announced that a controversial, estrogen-like chemical in plastic could be harming the development of children’s brains and reproductive organs.

An ingredient of polycarbonate plastic, BPA is one of the most widely used synthetic chemicals in industry today. It can seep from hard plastic beverage containers such as baby bottles, as well as from liners in cans containing food and infant formula.

The federal institute is the first government agency in the U.S. to conclude that low levels of BPA could be harming humans. Its findings will be used to help regulators at federal and state environmental agencies to develop policies governing its use.[LA Times]

and stay informed by visiting the National Toxicology Program website at http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ for more on public health issues and the latest issues in toxicology.