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See three of the coolest corporate HQs, from Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings to conference rooms with DJ booths. Plus five firms where employees love to hang out together after work, whether they're learning samba or scoring hat tricks.

By Anne Fisher
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The MS Dance e-mail list counts 400 members; every week a new step - Latin ballroom, two-step - is taught on campus. "You meet people from all over the company," says Melitta Andersen, a project manager and aficionada of the samba who joined the group last summer. "We have some pretty good dancers here."
Last updated January 22 2008: 9:42 AM ET

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