WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, Feb. 13 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Why eliminating the penny makes sense For more than two decades, economics professor Robert Whaples has advocated for an end to the penny. In 2007, when he published an article about the imperative to eliminate America's one-cent coin, Whaples received a personal note from Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve: "Get it done, and you will deserve the Nobel Prize!" For news out  more