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VeggieTales, VeggieSales

Cover Story | Who would have thought a Bible college dropout would find a way to get kids excited about vegetables? VeggieTales may not be leafy, but they are green: Producers have sold 6 million copies of the animated cartoon series, which rules the Christian market and is breaking into the mainstream. A CD of VeggieTales songs has topped the Billboard kids' chart. Can it last? And will success compromise the content? Meet the humans behind the Veggies.

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In this issue: "Veggie Mania," Dec. 12, 1998

Features

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Disposable children

by Roy Maynard

International |  Ceaucescu is no longer a legitimate excuse; Romania continues to throw away its kids

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Jail to the chief?

by Bob Jones

National |  Some Republicans think Clinton should get a prison term-but after his presidential term

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Dispatches

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Quotables

I went from making a lot of money on a sitcom to making no money. Actress Ellen DeGeneres, complaining in the Los Angeles Times Magazine of mistreatment at…

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This Week

Breathe deeply Oprah Winfrey is expanding her politically correct media empire. She's a partner in a new cable channel called Oxygen, which will debut in…

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Reviews

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Music: Real Christmas music

by Terry Yount

Music |  Discovering unusual but authentic carols of faith

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'Rats, pigs, and bugs

by Chris Stamper

Culture |  The holiday kiddie flicks are in the theaters and here are three that are rated G

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Cultural year in review

by Gene Edward Veith

Culture |  1998 turns out to have been a lot like 1898

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Voices

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Mailbag

Shrugging along The shrugging of America ("America shrugged," Nov. 14) should not have caught evangelicals by surprise as it did. There was a precursor, and…

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War of words

by Andrée Seu

Reason controlled by dark forces until it's harnessed by Christ

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Triumph of the hyphen

by Joel Belz

But journalistic compromise is no time for jubilation

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Editor's choice

by Marvin Olasky

A year-end look at favorite movies and books

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