article_snippet: I still remember the first time I read the passage from "The Jungle Book," heart racing beneath my pajamas covered with The Six Million Dollar Man.
article_snippet: Then everybody in the Jungle suffers," Rudyard Kipling wrote.
article_snippet: I probably understood that tiger attacks were fairly rare in Milwaukee, but to my 11-year-old brain, Rudyard Kipling was dropping wisdom that just might keep me alive on the next expedition into the weedy lot behind Piggly Wiggly.
article_snippet: Reading that passage 35 years later, while rolling through the very forest that inspired the classic, the irony in that line finally clicks.
article_snippet: That kind of human pressure has changed Kipling's "Law of the Jungle" in dramatic ways.