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To: Paul Senior who wrote (20777)	3/2/2005 4:29:03 AM
From: Carl Worth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78666

I read that article as well, and was interested in particular because Husic owns over 10% of a company I also own, MFIC. finance.yahoo.com Note that the latest filing by Husic indicates that they own even more shares, so the Yahoo number may be low. Interesting that PFE also owns a chunk of the stock, approximately 6% of the float. yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com The company is profitable, but wouldn't qualify as a value play at this point, but it seems relevant given the Husic mention. They have already preannounced Q4 revenues which were up over 40% year over year, along with a much improved backlog. biz.yahoo.com One of their main products is a Microfluidizer. I wouldn't pretend to understand exactly what that is, but their main customers for this product are pharmaceutical companies, so the fact that Pfizer likes the product well enough to buy a stake in the company is pretty impressive. Finally, they have recently announced that they have developed a process for...well, read the article, I certainly wouldn't pretend to understand the intricacies of this one, but it sounds impressive. <g> biz.yahoo.com