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Thu 06 Jun 2004Model citizen puts country in spotlightCountry profile/Estonia:  One Estonian is making sure that her little nation's race to fill just six seats in the European parliament will get plenty of attention.Carmen Kass, reputedly the world's second highest-earning supermodel and Estonia's richest woman, is now a front-runner for one of the Baltic nation's precious places in Brussels.