I'm not one to feel that you have to open doors with your elbows and cover your hands. But you should wash your hands whether you use a public bathroom or a private bathroom.

Today's action is aimed at protecting our financial system against abuse by this arm of a state-sponsor of terrorism.

As a state-owned entity with inadequate money laundering and terrorist financing controls, the Commercial Bank of Syria poses a significant risk of being used to further the Syrian government's continuing support for international terrorist groups.

Bacteria are not going to be destroyed. They've been here, they've seen dinosaurs come and go... so any attempt to sterilize our home is fraught with failure.

This is getting so popular now. Japan is way ahead of the world in this.

We run the risk of changing the kinds of bacteria we confront every day in the home.

[Tufts microbiologist Stuart Levy, who was invited by the FDA to speak about anti-microbial resistance at today's meeting, is blunt in his assessment.] There is no place for anti-bacterial chemical additives in the healthy household, ... they work and they're gone.