Monday, January 05, 2004

From the War in Iraq to the birth of sextuplets, thousands of stories fought for our attention in 2003.

	John Beale, Post-Gazette The Perry sextuplets, shown in July and last week, are, from left, Ian Richard, Simon Edwin, Olivia Ann, Zoe Patricia, Joshua Joseph and Madison Regina. How do the parents cope with six active babies plus their 4-year-old son Parker? "With a lot of help," says their mom. Click photo for larger image.

Sometimes the constant deluge of facts, figures, people and problems can seem overwhelming.

For two weeks at the end of the year, Post-Gazette reporters stepped back from the press of daily deadline pressure to revisit some of the major news and newsmakers of 2003.

In a year that seemed to have its fair share of depressing headlines, they found many examples of the resiliency of the human spirit, from the positive outlook of a Boy Scout leader paralyzed in a Downtown robbery, to the widow of Mister Rogers getting support from her neighborhood, to the silver lining in the nation's largest electrical blackout.

Here are the those stories:

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