cnn.com design observations

Did you check out the new CNN.com? I've been reading quite a lot lately and realized just today how much cooler their website is. Wider everything! It is not until something good happens that you realize how 'bad' things were before...does this make sense?

I've got three suggestions though.
1: Make Font Bigger for the left side links.
2: Why is the page so long now? Can there be more toggling?
3: I think they have to loose the top red header for the page, it's just incredibly disturbing (this might be a good thing for those retailers trying to "POP UP" like they love to call it!) there must be a more neutral heading background, something.