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Football's ode to excess, the Super Bowl, celebrates its XLth birthday today.

As a public service, I have compiled activities that can be accomplished during today's commercials that, if practiced, will leave viewers feeling less like slugs.

Sweating, aching It takes me 1 minute, 10 seconds to jog around the block, which roughly measures one-tenth of a mile.

Guesstimating there will be at least 50 Super Bowl breaks and that your neighborhood offers a similar layout, you could jog five miles during the game.

Added bonus: no entry fee.

Crank out 10 pushups and 10 crunches per break.

That's a potential 500 pushups and crunches.

To avoid chest, arm and abdominal pain that might leave you bedridden, be sure to mix in the following fitness activity: Stretching.

Exercising the mind If you're like me, you have every intention of wading through that five-pound missile that's launched on your doorstep every Sunday morning.

But church, afternoon walks on the beach, chores, family dinner all get in the way.

This time, vow to read at least the Sports, Arts, Passages, Books, Opinion and Travel sections.

If you subscribe to USA Today, you could read the entire week, cover to cover, by midway through the first quarter.

Play speed Yahtzee.

Like Joe Namath, I guarantee, playing solo, I could roll an e...

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Richerson, director of the Defense Department's Pharmacoeconomic Center, patient behavior with this and other drug classes moved on the formulary show the powerful effect of raising co-payments.

What he learned, he said, is that co-pays do change "market share.

Patients will switch."That confirmation is important, Richerson suggested during the TRICARE conference, because getting 6.6 million current users of the military pharmacy benefit to make more cost-effective choices is critical to department plans to lower soaring pharmacy costs.In fiscal 2005, defense spending on outpatient pharmacy services hit $5.4 billion, up 80 percent in three years.

But at least the rate of growth is trending down, Richerson noted.

In fiscal 2003, outpatient drug costs rose by 27.5 percent.

The increase was 21.8 percent in 2004 and 15.5 percent last year.

And for the first time in recent memory, outpatient drug costs in military treatment facilities actually fell last year, by 5.2 percent or $89 million.

But military retail pharmacy costs jumped 30.1 percent.Congress took a first important step toward controlling pharmacy costs in 2000 when it directed the department to create a uniform formulary, across the th...