Only in America: A snip and a slice

A Massachusetts clinic offers a free pizza to any man who signs up for a vasectomy — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation

A snip and a slice
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Urology Associates of Cape Cod, a clinic in Sandwich, Mass., has found an unusual way to entice men to get vasectomies: Free pizza. On the first day of the promotion, the office was swamped with men eager to go under the knife for the $500 to $700 procedure, then recover with their free one-topping pizza and some NCAA Basketball Tournament on the clinic's TVs. We wanted to "improvise and be different," says practice administrator Evan Cohen. "It's been crazy."

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