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I could see separate MSN and Yahoo sites for a few years. Microsoft would eventually try to fold certain functions of Yahoo into MSN, even replacing some MSN sites with the Yahoo equivalents. Hotmail could be replaced with Yahoo Mail, and MSN Sports replaced by Yahoo Sports. There may even be...

Hillary Clinton could still be an attorney and also an advocate for children's issues. When Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad left politics in 1998, he stated he was considering a new career in either business or education, although he was an attorney before entering politics. He then went on to become...

W. seemed quite content managing the Texas Rangers. IIRC, the pols in Texas encouraged him to run for Governor and that's what returned him to a political career.

If Microsoft was successful in buying Yahoo, they may not know what to do with it. Microsoft at that time made most of its money selling software, usually to businesses (Office, SQLSERVER, Windows Server). Yahoo is mostly a consumer portal. Maybe Yahoo could have added some value to...

KRNT Radio, April 13, 1965 Good morning! This is the KRNT Morning News. At the top of the news this morning, a spokesman for Gov. Harold Hughes confirmed that the 133rd Infantry Regiment of the Iowa National Guard will be mobilized for deployment to South Vietnam. The reason for this...

WGN Radio, March 16, 1965 THIS IS A SPECIAL REPORT FROM WGN RADIO IN CHICAGO. About a dozen protesters were injured this afternoon when police tried to break up a demonstration in Lincoln Park. The protesters were calling for more Federal intervention in the southern U.S., particularly in the...

Urban sprawl and rising land values helped put drive-ins out of business because landowners could make more money replacing a drive-in with a strip mall. Maybe if a town could set up a special zoning class that only allowed drive-ins and no other business type in a specific part of town, that...

I'm getting the impression Iowa didn't have a disaster plan in 1984, or nothing like Nebraska had anyway. I also find it interesting that with refugees certainly on the way to Ames, Branstad is worrying more about money instead of how to feed and shelter the refugees.

Well, the guy went to school to be a hedge fund manager. ;) He could be trying to grow winter wheat.

Boo-Boo Boo-Boo Bear usually tried to warn Yogi against doing something that would get him/them into trouble. Without Boo-Boo, I expect Yogi to cause even more trouble than he did with Boo-Boo around. I also expect the consequences to Yogi to be more severe. Poor Yogi might be captured...

The Secretary-General It's nice that Señor Bergoglio is a world leader in TTL too. He must have met quite a woman to change careers. :)

Internet not invented? CompuServe would still be a major service, instead of an AOL webpage. And we would all be on the Alternate History Forum. And we would still use the phone lines to access CompuServe.

No need to apologize. The update was well worth the wait. :)

Rev. Falwell I wonder if Rev. Falwell will have a "great awakening" when he remembers the proverb, "Be careful what you wish for ...", post-exchange.

Battle of Riga Your description of the Battle of Riga looks good to me. :)