One thing I noticed about the 1990's timeline: there's nothing about South Africa in it, and very little about the Southern Hemisphere at all. The IST sourcebook, however, was very clearly setting up South Africa as a powderkeg about to explode in 1990. In fact, much of what I see Mark doing with South Africa in his tentative timeline looks like stuff that should have been happening in the 90's, unless something else happened to prevent it.
Oh, and my first thought on seeing the name Jillian Michaels was, "Wait, a personal trainer is doing research on temporal anomalies?"
Oh, and my first thought on seeing the name Jillian Michaels was, "Wait, a personal trainer is doing research on temporal anomalies?"