SYDNEY--14 Aug--AsiaNet/InfoQuest HORSEHEAD HOLDING... MONACA, Pa. - Horsehead Holding Corp., the parent company of HorseheadCorporation, today announced that it has priced its initial public offering of4,867,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $18.00 per share, 4,171,235shares 1of which are being offered by the Company.http://www.horsehead.net FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of asecurities issue amounting to a total of US$200 million on August 21 at aredemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amount redeemed plusaccrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com THOMSON SCIENTIFIC... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON - Thomson Scientific, part of The ThomsonCorporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutionsto the worldwide research and business communities, today announced the resultsof a survey analyzing citation patterns in the field of geology.http://www.scientific.thomson.comhttp://www.thomson.com PLATTS SURVEY... LONDON - The 12 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC) pumped an average 30.5 million b/d of crude in July, 280,000 b/d higherthan June's 30.22 million b/d, a Platts survey showed August 10.http://www.platts.comhttp://www.mcgraw-hill.comhttp://www.opec.platts.com NICOTINE DELIVERY... JEFFERSON, N.C. - In a study of 30 test subjects, participants achieved muchhigher nicotine blood levels at faster rates than those possible from smokingcigarettes: without receiving any of the deadly carcinogens.http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070810/CLF082http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070615/CLF038LOGOhttp://photoarchive.ap.orghttp://www.nextsafety.com WHITE HOUSE VISIT... BEIJING - Representatives of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) were pleased toaccompany James Connaughton, senior environmental and natural resources advisorto President George W. Bush, this weekend as he visited the Sihe Coal Mine inJincheng city, Shanxi Province, China.http://www.CAT.com BEIJING OLYMPICS... CHICAGO - "A Pledge of Love," a North American- composed entry as the themesong of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008, was performed Sunday, May 20, atthe 2007 All Chinese Music Concert at Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago CulturalCenter in Chicago.http://www.omusic.us IYOMU.COM NETWORK... WELLINGTON - In a world-first, new social networking website for grown-upsiYomu.com has announced that it will ask its online community to choose onemember to receive US$1 million in the iYomu.com Challenge.www.iyomu.com/challengewww.iyomu.com/usersite/media/ ASTONISHING DISCOVERY... BEIJING - After 16 years' hard work, Xiao Jing Jin Xi Yong, from Korea, hastracked down a large underground kingdom, located below the Chinese InnerMongolian prairie.http://www.blackjadekindom.net AUSTRADE LAUNCH... BRISBANE - The Brisbane City Council will join with the AustralianGovernments export development agency Austrade to help businesses tap into thefastest growing markets in the world.www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/apcswww.austrade.com.au AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited, translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net for full-text versions.