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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The president of Kansas State University has told Congress that the school needs federal funds to continue vital research into fighting disease and biological threats that he warned could devastate America's food supply.

"Hungry people are unhappy people," President Richard Myers testified Wednesday. "America still feeds the world and there is an urgent need to protect America's food crops, food animals and food supply from naturally occurring and intentionally developed and delivered biological threats. Either could be devastating."

Myers said the university needs feder...