SYDNEY--4 Dec--AsiaNet/InfoQuest KORN/FERRY SURVEY... LOS ANGELES, CA.: Executives are increasingly open to "extreme commuting,"which involves traveling by plane to work and back each week or by car for morethan 90 minutes one way each day, as an alternative to relocation, according to70 percent of international recruiters who completed the 12th edition of thequarterly Executive Recruiter Index, released Tuesday by Korn/FerryInternational, a premier global provider of talent management solutions.http://www.kornferry.com LLUMAR FILM... ST. LOUIS: An in vitro study presented by Eric R. Bernstein, M.D. at theannual meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery showedthat glass fitted with LLumar film (reducing UVA and UVB transmission by 99.6percent) resulted in a 93 percent reduction in live cell death compared with a29 percent reduction with untreated clear glass, under conditions of simulatedsolar radiation, confirming growing concerns about the damage caused by UVAradiation.http://www.solutia.comhttp://www.llumar.com BENCHMARK NOTES... WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae Monday announced that it will not issue BenchmarkNotes this month.http://www.fanniemae.com ESD PROTECTION... MILPITAS, Calif.: California Micro Devices Monday announced an expansion ofits product portfolio for mobile handsets with the introduction of two new ESD(electrostatic discharge) protection product families that address the needs ofhigh speed data interfaces found in many of today's most advanced handsets.http://www.cmd.com FANNIE MAE... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fannie Mae will redeem the principal amount of 18securities issues amounting to a total of US$3,119.961 million on Dec 13 and15, 2007 at a redemption price equal to 100 percent of the principal amountredeemed plus accrued interest.http://www.fanniemae.com TECHNOLOGY PIONEER... HAIFA: InSightec Ltd. Monday announced that the World Economic Forum hasselected the company as one of its Technology Pioneers for 2008.http://www.insightec.comhttp://www.weforum.orghttp://www.weforum.org/techpioneers/2008 PETROCHEMICAL FEEDSTOCK... SINGAPORE: Purvin & Gertz Monday announced the release of a "Five YearOutlook on the East-of-Suez (Asia + Middle East) Petrochemical FeedstockMarket".http://www.purvingertz.com STARPHARMA SIGNS... MELBOURNE: Starpharma Monday announced the signing of a collaborativeresearch agreement with Stiefel Laboratories, Inc., the world's largestindependent pharmaceutical company specializing in dermatology, to applyStarpharmas dendrimer nanotechnology to certain drugs used dermally.www.starpharma.com ITIS APPOINTS... LONDON: ITIS Holdings plc, a world leader in road traffic informationservices, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dave Francis as Director ofBroadcast Technologies with immediate effect. THOMSON INNOVATION... PHILADELPHIA and LONDON: Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporationand leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research andbusiness communities, has launched its new intellectual property research andanalysis solution, Thomson Innovation.http://www.thomsoninnovation.comhttp://www.scientific.thomson.comhttp://www.thomson.com AsiaNet is a consortium of leading news agencies distributing unedited,translated news releases for worldwide clients. Visit www.asianetnews.net forfull-text versions.