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HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (KBTX) - The last time there was a coast-to- coast total solar eclipse in the United States, the average cost to rent an apartment in the U.S. was just $178 a year. That was back in June of 1918. On Monday, August 21st in our area, about 70% of the sun will be covered up in the total solar eclipse . From about 1:00 p.m. until 1:30 pm will be the best time to view the eclipse, and there are several ways to see it even if you don't have a fancy telescope. "Another creative way to do it is to take like a bucket of water and look at the reflection of the sun in the water. That's definitely low-tech, and sometimes those are the safest ways to do it," explained Michael Prokosch , the director of the planetarium and observatory at Sam Houston State University . Other than the bucket of water, Prokosch suggested using a Rtiz cracker (or any cracker with tiny holes) or a colander as a pinhole projector. You can watch the part 4 video ...

One day in August, 2016, the financier Carl Icahn made an urgent phone call to the Environmental Protection Agency . Icahn is one of the richest men on Wall Street, and he has thrived, in no small measure, because of a capacity to intimidate. A Texas- based oil refiner in which he had a major stake was losing money because of an obscure environmental rule that Icahn regarded as unduly onerous. Icahn is a voluble critic of any government regulation that constrains his companies. So he wanted to speak with the person in charge of enforcing the policy: a senior official at the E.P.A. named Janet McCabe . Icahn works from a suite of offices, atop the General Motors Building , in midtown, that are decorated in the oak-and-leather fashion of a tycoon’s lair in a nineteen-eighties film. During that decade, Icahn made his reputation as one of the original corporate raiders , pioneering the art of the hostile takeover and establishing himself as a human juggernaut—a pugnacious deal machine ...