Europe explores how to define the "green fairy"

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Europe explores how to define the "green fairy"

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/europe-explores-define-green-fairy-142552017.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/sCuUOZDy0aFHCmfCbdzPxQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-08T142552Z_1_CBRE927143A00_RTROPTP_2_ABSINTHE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A customer at Buchans Bar in London takes a sip of Absinthe, December 10. Absinthe, a highly potent.." align="left" title="A customer at Buchans Bar in London takes a sip of Absinthe, December 10. Absinthe, a highly potent.." border="0" /></a>BRUSSELS (Reuters) - It's the green-hued fuel that has fired flights of poetic fancy since the 1800s, but now the European Union is examining whether to change how absinthe is defined. The intensely alcoholic spirit, dubbed &quot;la fee verte&quot; (the green fairy) by Parisian writers in reference to its reputed psychoactive properties, has been a fixture amongst artists and Europe's bohemians since the 1850s, with Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire among the famous devotees. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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