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Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti as part of a multi-national force expected to restore order to the country. What will await the internationally backed mission, and can it succeed?

The Vienna transit authority tried out piping four pleasing scents through its trains: green tea, grapefruit, sandalwood and melon. Straphangers said they preferred the air au naturale.

2: Activist and preacher JIM WALLIS is the editor of "Sojourners" magazine, and the author of the new book, "The Soul of Politics" (The New Press/Orbis Books). In his book, he asserts that "the world isn't working," and neither the liberal left or the conservative right know how to fix it. WALLIS says the solution will come from a new morality that combines social justice and personal responsibility.

Psychologist KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is an authority on manic-depression, and the author of the 1993 book Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament, (Free Press/MacMillan). Recently JAMISON disclosed her own 30-year battle with manic-depression in the new memoir, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Knopf). JAMISON is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Antonin Careme's designed culinary masterpieces for many of Europe's most rich and powerful: King George IV, Napoleon, the Romanovs. A new book by actor Ian Kelly recreates the life of the 19th century chef. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Kelly.

Haitians voted for a new president this week and are hoping the winner can help speed the recovery. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Reuters correspondent Makini Brice.

Haiti has a long history of major earthquakes that leave destruction and carnage in their wake. A combination of factors makes the country especially susceptible to damage from these quakes.

"Everything was moving — houses, cars — and everyone was crying," said one Haitian from an area close to the earthquake's epicenter. More than 1,400 people are confirmed dead.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with William O'Neill, the United Nations independent expert on Human Rights in Haiti, about the Kenyan-led multinational force deploying to Haiti to help restore order there.

In the years since Haiti last held a democratic election, the challenges facing the country have spiraled: gang violence, inflation, a cholera outbreak. "It's a collapse," one outgoing senator said.