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TRIPOLI, Libya – Cars sat abandoned in gucci shoes miles-long fuel lines, motorists traded angry screams with soldiers guarding gas stations, and many shops were closed Sunday on what should have been a work day.

In ever-multiplying ways, residents in the Libyan capital are feeling the sting of shortages from uprising-related disruptions of supplies.

The shortages are a dramatic sign of how Libya's nearly 3-month-old rebellion — and the resulting chaos — is affecting daily life in Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold and other western areas of Libya still under his rule. International sanctions have begun to bite, many supply routes are unstable, and there are shortages of skilled people in some sectors to keep the city running smoothly.

DOHA, Qatar (AP)—FIFA President Sepp 2010 handbag Blatter criticized the IOC on Friday while defending his own organization against corruption allegations, saying the Olympic body handles its finances “like a housewife.”

Blatter, a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1999, said FIFA was more transparent than the IOC, and backtracked on plans to create an anti-corruption commission.

“Our accounts are open to everyone. … We’ve (done) it since I’m the president. It wasn’t done before,” Blatter said in Qatar, where he is attending the Asian Cup. “The IOC does it like a housewife. She receives some money and she spends some money.”

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP)—Lynetta 2010 handbag Kizer scored 20 points to help No. 22 Maryland rally past Purdue 56-55 on Thursday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

Alyssa Thomas and Diandra Tchatchouang each scored 12 points for the Terrapins (6-1), who trailed by 11 with 5:24 remaining. Maryland outrebounded Purdue 40-27 and scored 20 points off offensive rebounds.

Courtney Moses led Purdue with 12 points and five assists, but she also had seven turnovers and missed what could have been a game-winning shot in the closing seconds.

It was Purdue’s first game since Nov. 21. The Boilermakers were scheduled to participate in the Caribbean Challenge at Playa del Carmen, Mexico, but the trip was canceled when forward Drey Mingo was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. She has been released from the hospital, but she missed Thursday’s game against the school she transferred from last year and is out indefinitely.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP)—Chace Stanback had Sport Shoes 17 points and eight rebounds to lead UNLV to a 71-59 victory over Virginia Tech in the 76 Classic’s championship game Sunday night.

Stanback was voted the tournament’s most outstanding player.

“Clearly, Chace was deserving of the award,” UNLV coach Lon Kruger said. “He’s making shots, which you expect him to do, but he’s also covering (defensively) and he’s getting more and more active on the boards.”

Quintrell Thomas and Tre’Von Willis scored 14 points apiece for the Rebels (6-0). Anthony Marshall added 10 points, four rebounds and four assists.

TORONTO (AP)—Nikolai Kulemin(notes) scored gucci shoes two goals and the Toronto Maple Leafs earned a 4-1 win over the Dallas Stars on Monday night.

He has seven goals on the season, tying him for second on the team with linemate Clarke MacArthur(notes).

Tyler Bozak(notes) and Kris Versteeg(notes) had the other goals for the Maple Leafs (8-9-3), who got 21 saves from Jonas Gustavsson(notes).

Brad Richards(notes) scored for Dallas (10-8-1).

Gustavsson continued his strong play in relief of J.S. Giguere, who has missed three games with a minor groin injury. The Leafs backup has stopped 87 of 91 shots during that stretch.

Georgia's Democratic candidate for Governor was working this Labor Day, making a campaign stop at an Albany community event.

Roy Barnes believes job creation in Georgia is all within the control of the Governor. Barnes claims education is key and isn't happy with the most recent cutbacks in education funding. Barnes says of Georgia's 10 percent unemployment rate, 6.5 percent are those who have a high school diploma or less. Barnes said he would be in favor of raising the drop out age, and taking more immediate steps to help business.

"All state and local contracts should be given to companies that employ Georgians and not out of state. We should in my view give a holiday on payroll taxes for those who hiring new workers for at least a year or two," said Roy Barnes, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate.

In Midtown Manhattan two years ago, the billboard-size clock that keeps track of the U.S. national debt ran out of digits when the figure ballooned to $10 trillion.

It wasn't long before a solution was found to again tick, tick, tick away how deeply the country is in the red.

Now there's another clock, only this one is online, ticking away the amount of student loan debt being amassed by college students and their parents.

Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of finaid.org, one of the best sites for college financial aid information, has posted a Student Loan Debt Clock, www.finaid.org/studentdebtclock, that keeps a running tally of the outstanding federal and private student loans.

E-books may be taking off for Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, but there’s one category of printed matter where digital hasn’t made a dent: Textbooks.

It’s not for lack of trying. Most textbooks are massive tomes that weigh several pounds, are printed on hundreds of pages of glossy paper, can cost upwards of $100, and are often out of date as soon as they’re printed. You’d think someone would have figured out how to make e-textbooks work — and plenty of companies have tried.

Yet print still rules, with over 99 percent of the textbook market. But with the rise of tablets and e-readers, software developers and textbook publishers are making yet another effort to take textbooks digital.

Two hundred Saudi teachers rallied at the Ministry of Education on Sunday, calling on the government to give them jobs in a rare protest in the conservative Gulf kingdom.

The demonstrators, mainly Arabic language teachers, demanded a meeting with Education Minister Faisal Bin Abdullah and an end to their unemployment, saying that many of them had graduated ten years ago and were still jobless.

"I have knocked on all the doors but they keep slamming shut in my face," said protester Ahmed Abdullah.

The Department of Civil Service, which allocates jobs to Saudi citizens, said some 6,000 people graduate annually with a teaching degree, but the Education Ministry has only 657 jobs to fill this year.

At a time when defence ties with China may have hit a rough patch, educational ties with the formidable neighbour could be on the mend. Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal will visit China early next month to explore the potential for increased collaboration.

While the agenda of the three-day visit to Beijing starting September 11 is under wraps, there is substantial scope for the two countries to collaborate in the education sector. In fact, while India has close collaborations and educational exchange programs with several other nations, that is not the case with China. The fact that high-level meetings between the two in the field of education are hardly the norm makes Sibal’s visit even more interesting.