$16,350
Cost to produce Gov. Linda Lingle’s official state portrait, which was unveiled last week
$15,080
Annual pre-tax income of a Hawaii resident working 40 hours a week for minimum wage
$1.1 million
Grant awarded to a UH Manoa professor by the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea to trace the evolution of humans in the East Asian peninsula
$4.5 billion
Cost (adjusted for inflation) of the USS George Washington, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently being used to conduct war exercises in the Yellow Sea as tensions between North and South Korea escalate
Sources: Office of Gov. Lingle, Hawaii Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, University of Hawaii, U.S. Department of Defense
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