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August 19, 2019
PHOTOGRAPH BY MOHAMMED ZAANOUN FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK
FEATURES 40 Wide-Open Lonely Spaces
The one tireless psychiatrist battling eastern Montana’s spiraling suicide rate
48 The Politics of Cement
Why it’s so hard to get a vital building material into Gaza
54 Near Campus, Far From Affordable
As REITs develop local properties, student housing costs go up, up, up
◀ Mohamad al-Assar
tapped the black market
to rebuild after his
concrete-mixing factory
was destroyed