One to watch, says Charles McGhee, is Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, where a local newspaper and radio station have moved on campus, providing what's described as the 'medical residency model' - training journalists on the job, as has long happened with doctors.

BBC: Paper Tigers

The authors, Mitchell Conover of the University of Richmond, Gerald Jensen of Northern Illinois University, Robert Johnson of the CFA Institute and Jeffrey Mercer of Texas Tech University, studied data from December 1970 through August 2007.

WSJ: A Buy Signal for Commodities

In the case, a jury found that Heather Sue Mercer, a kicker, was discriminated against by the Duke University football team, a program designated as a single-sex contact sport, for her gender when she was kicked off it.

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