Among the skeptics is self-described "proud shoe wearer" runner Spurgeon Hendrick, who regularly hits the trails outside Atlanta, Georgia, for long runs.

CNN: Running debate: Bare or in shoes?

The past few years have been turbulent times for Rogue Wave: After dealing with the death of bassist Evan Farrell following his departure from the group, the band has had to work around drummer Pat Spurgeon's ongoing struggles with a lifelong kidney disorder.

NPR: Rogue Wave On World Cafe

Amazingly, some of those same people -- including Spurgeon Keeney , president of the Arms Control Association and Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes , a former U.S. Arms Control Agency lawyer, who are quoted in today's Washington Post -- are sharply critical of even these modest efforts to understand and begin to address the threat that they purport to regard as a serious one (at least when opposing missile defenses).

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